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Some photos of the neighbourhood

27 Monday Jun 2016

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Charlottetown, Neighbourhood, PEI

As I walk around the neighbourhood, I take photos of the street scape.

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Trinity United Church built in 1863 on Prince Street, this is where the vigil took place after the terrible events in Orlando, more than 1000 people showed up. For such a small town this is an impressive number.

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City Hall of Charlottetown, originally it was a Fire Hall

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Low tide on West Street

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Flower display as is common to see

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I love the entrance to this house in Palladian Style.

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This is the house across the street with its expansive lawn.

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The entrance to Fanningbank, the Official Residence of the Lieutenant Governor of PEI. He is the representative of the Sovereign in the Province. The house is in Palladian style built around 1847 and named after Edmund Fanning born in Long Island in 1737 and died in London, England, on 28 February 1818. He graduated from Yale in 1757 and settled as a lawyer in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he was elected Colonel of Militia in 1763, Clerk of the Superior Court in 1765 and subsequently went to the Legislature. He raised a regiment of Loyalists to fight against the rebellion in the American Colonies and was made General. He moved to Nova Scotia near the close of the war and was appointed Councillor and Lieutenant Governor on 23 September 1783. Three years later, on 4 November 1786, he was appointed Governor of St. John Island (Prince Edward Island). This office he held for 18 years.

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The Old Train Station in use from 1907-1989 when all trains and track were dismantled. It is now used as a government office.

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One more boat launched at the Marina on Peakes Wharf just a block from the house. There is a steady parade of boats being brought to the Marina these days. Everyone wants their boat in the water before the long Canada Day Weekend.

 

Clyde River Festival

26 Sunday Jun 2016

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Canada., Chef, Clyde River Pageant, Emily Wells, New Glasgow PEI, PEI, The Mill Restaurant

Festivals, PEI has them and they all focus on Culture, Music, History and raising funds for various causes which benefit the Islanders and sometimes causes abroad in far away lands.

Today I went with Island friends to The River Clyde Pageant PEI 2016, www.riverclydepageant.com

This poster was made by a local artist.

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Chef Emily Wells who owns the Local 343 restaurant and The Mill on the Clyde River was preparing the meal. The food was excellent, I told her so. She is a very nice person. I met a lot of people and had great conversations. Socially I meet a lot of people, weekends are really busy. It is amazing what a small world we live in and in PEI you constantly meet people who know people you know or have heard of you through conversations amongst friends.

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The staff donated their time tonight and all worked for free, during dinner there was music etc. The Mill is an old animal feed mill and was a school before, it has been beautifully restored.

The Mill is in the village of New Glasgow  who is also known for its Lobster Church Supper. The whole countryside in the area is spectacular with rolling hills and farms. By car it is only 25 minutes from our home in Charlottetown.

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The yellow building in this photo is now devoted to making fruit preserves, they also have a nice shop and a beautiful garden called the Garden of Hope. Their website http://preservecompany.com

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The hall where the Lobster Church Dinner takes place. It has been going on for years and remains popular.

 

 

 

An excess of Democracy

24 Friday Jun 2016

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Brexit, Cameron, EU, Referendum, UK

In the Italian newspapers this morning was a quote by a known Italian politician who said that what happened in the UK was an excess of democracy and that the people will now have to pay for it. Like all things in life the middle position is always best and in this case we saw a PM, David Cameron gambling the future to save his own political career. So despite his professed love of England, he has like all power hungry politicians more attachment to his political career and survival, unfortunately for him, he will be remembered as the one who created this horrible mess. As for ex-Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farange the leader of UKIP, they were both opportunists and irresponsible during the campaign. However their victory is to assure them of political power, that is the name of the game. The future will show that dark days are ahead for England, nothing will ever be the same. There was no need for this referendum, Mr Cameron thought it would resolve a dispute within the Conservative Party, he did not seem to understand that the consequences could be this serious for the Nation.

On the voting figures, London is now effectively an enclave of its own – a city-state wholly divorced culturally, politically, financially and by its inclusive outlook from England. By those same figures, the young are in potentially irreconcilable conflict with their grandparents; the university educated with those bereft of higher education; and, if to a lesser degree, the urban with the rural.

This seems to a trend even in Canada, if one looks at the great cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal or the division by class and by level of education. What is truly worrying is the level of Civic Illiteracy amongst the average person who do not know how our Parliamentary democracy works or what the Constitution says about how we govern ourselves.

In this sense this was an excess of democracy, you do not launch into a referendum process when the population can be so easily manipulated and is ignorant of the most basic facts. When far right politicians like Farange are willing to play on the fear of people at their most basic, fear of the other, or invent stories about what membership cost. For those who believe that England can return with this vote to the mythical days of Empire and Mary Poppins or other symbols of a Britain of long ago, that will not happen.

Again in our Parliamentary system in Canada like in Britain, tradition is for the Government to lead in Parliament and to take action.  You do not hold referendums, Parliament is Sovereign and is elected to govern.

We now have a broken country, deeply divided and the exit vote is far too close to be considered valid. Scotland is now talking of holding another referendum to secede from the UK, since 62% of Scots voted to remain in the European Union. There is also the prospect that Ulster could unite with the Republic of Ireland to the South a strong member of the EU. That leaves England and Wales to go at it alone, a much diminished country.

What will also happen to the millions of Briton who work and own property in the EU? Not to mention all the other citizens of EU countries who work and reside in Britain. Lost of that workforce in the UK and returning British citizens will create an economic crisis.

How truly incompetent David Cameron and his government are and how opportunistic the Opposition, it will be interesting to see now what plan Boris Johnson or Nigel Farange come up with, I strongly suspect they do not have one.

Here is a map of England before 1707 and possibly the map of the England of tomorrow. I cannot imagine the Queen being terribly happy at that prospect.

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The Tulip of 2017

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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150, 1867-2017, 2017, Canada., Confederation, Holland, PEI, tulips

Next year 2017 will mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation which is the coming into a union of the original Provinces of Canada. Prior to 1867 British North America was administered from London as a group of colonies. England did not know what to do with its colonies in North America, the government in London did not really want any of it and would have been happy to give the lot away to the first who asked. The business leaders and local politicians in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Quebec and Ontario knew this, so they came together to formalize a Union and form a new country Canada.

To mark the event some very inventive horticulturalist invented a new tulip with our National Colour, White and Red, it will be featured as of next year for the Tulip Festival in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada. People can buy bulbs at hardware stores. It is a very nice tulip.  Of course the story of tulips in Canada are closely linked to the Royal Family of the Netherlands and the Dutch people. PEI has a large and prosperous Dutch community and tulips are grown here on farms.

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Gallery

The Birth (?) of a Nation

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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This gallery contains 10 photos.

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Summer Solstice

20 Monday Jun 2016

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So tonight the moon rose over Charlottetown.

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A strawberry Moon for the Solstice.

 

The neighbourhood

19 Sunday Jun 2016

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Canada., Charlottetown, Confederation, Parks, PEI, Prince Street, Railway, St-Peter's Cathedral, Victoria Park, Water Street

There are two bloggers on the Island who write about the history of PEI. It is very informative and a lot of it has to do with railroads and ferries to the mainland. The trains are gone now, the network was dismantled in the 1960’s the main reason was the astronomical cost of maintaining the tracks on the very soft soil of the Island.  The ferries have also cut back service with new bridges connecting communities on the Island and the Sea Bridge (Confederation) built in 1997. The ferries still provide service but to specific points like New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the fabled Iles de la Madeleine.

In one blog entry was a map of Charlottetown in 1880. Looking at it closely I could see that much has changed in the last 50 years when the Government of PEI and the City decided to clean up the waterfront of the City from industrial to park land.

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Our street Prince from the corner of Water Street was a wharf and not a street as it is today, the wharf was used for passengers and merchandise for the ferry service to Stratford just across the Hillsborough river. Today at the end of the street stands a Seafood restaurant. The great water basins have been filled in and turned into parks called Confederation Landing and a gift of the City of Quebec, the Old Capital as it is known, because it was once the Royal Capital of New France and remains to this day the Summer Capital of the Governor General of Canada who resides at the Citadel on Cap Diamant.

In front of my window as I look out into a park and a small building once part of the Train Station, this building is now a  Tourist information centre, next to it stood a round house for locomotives, next to it in what is called Founders Hall was a repair shop for train cars. The round house is gone and a nice park took its place. A bit further is the Causeway taking traffic to Stratford nowadays. The great Cruise ships now dock next to Prince Street. Looking at all these parks it is difficult to imagine that once this was the river and the streets were wharfs and ship building dominated the area coupled with train traffic and freight.

Just behind our house you could count 2 bassins for ships and 4 wharfs one being owned by the Duncan family whose home built in 1840 we now live in. The tall ship building industry disappeared around 1890 to be replaced by steel and steam engines. This is when Charlottetown went into a steep decline economically after being the tall ship building capital of North America. The Duncan house became a residence for seniors until a few years ago when it was gutted and renovated.

The greening of our neighbourhood has made a big difference in Charlottetown and I can appreciate the improvement.

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These buildings prior to 1964 would have been on the water’s edge and all the trees in the background and other buildings would have been in the ship basins. Today it is a park along the river, thanks to landfill.

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In this park stood the Round House for Locomotives. The stone building was part of the freight yard, now a tourist information centre.

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Another view of the park where once stood the round house for locomotives.

Also today I went for a walk on the boardwalk in Victoria Park, it is an area that has always been reserved for the Army and for the Lieutenant Governor of the Province, his Residence is located here, it is a wonderful part of the city.

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Note the reddish colour of the water of the River due to the soil. On the right side of the photo is Rocky Point which is cottage country some 15 minutes from the City.

Beyond is the Strait of Northumberland and the sea.

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The boardwalk as it comes to West Street and Beaconsfield House which can be seen in the background (yellow house with lantern on the roof) It is a Museum to the Peakes Family who were and are still prominent in Charlottetown.

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Masses of flowers in Queen’s Square, (Queen Charlotte)  one of the numerous parks in the old City.

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St-Peter’s Anglican Cathedral and the famous All Souls Chapel which is a must see. It is decorated in Pre-Raphaelite style with wall paintings by Robert Harris who used Dante’s Inferno as a theme.

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Oh Look it’s our little Nicky having his sun filled morning snooze after his breakfast.

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Province House c.1847, the Legislature of the Province of Prince Edward Island.

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Great George Street named after George III and St-Dustan Irish R.C. Cathedral.

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Other brick buildings on Great George Street dating from the early 19th century. It is all art  galleries nowadays.

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This old picture shows in the background on the right Province House. St-Dustan Cathedral is in its original state prior to being rebuilt into the great church it is today.

All the other buildings in the pictures are still there today which is pretty amazing. This was Peakes Wharf’s  known today as Confederation Landings because this is were the Fathers of the Canadian Constitution landed in June 1864 walking up Great George Street.

Stress and Dachshund views

14 Tuesday Jun 2016

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Canada., Charlottetown, dachshunds, dogs, moving, PEI, Stress

This move is now behind us and all that is left is to organize the new house. On 28 May we arrived in Charlottetown after 2 days on the road from Ottawa, Yes Canada is a big country.

Our two dwarf Dachshunds slept in the back seat of the car all the way, only stretching from time to time and we stopped to let them walk a bit and smell the air, which they did. It must have smelt strange to them, nothing familiar, everything foreign including the surrounding landscape. Nora being a hunter liked the challenge, it was like doing a cross word puzzle for her, trying to figure out what she was smelling and what was about. Her familiar things were the car, her toys, the blanket, the food and us taking care of her and being there. On the other hand our Nicky the sunshine boy, Mister show Dog was stressed, he did not like the trip one bit and was acting out. He also had lots of familiar things about him and Nora was there so what could be wrong.  His routine was upset and he did not like the smells of things, too foreign. He wanted to go home to his two sofas to lounge, but they were gone. What was happening, this was scary and so refusing to eat, feeling lethargic, looking worried was his way of telling us this was no fun.

On 1 June the truck arrived with all our things, all 4 tons of it, which by the way is normal for a couple without human children or so says the moving company. This time around lots of boxes, cardboard does smell and Nicky again did not like it one bit and the new house, was fun because he could run everywhere with Nora, which they did a lot of. Now the furniture which had disappeared in Ottawa had miraculously re-appeared in Charlottetown. Nora was happy, Nicky not so much, and one member of the family was missing, so for Nicky the equation was not perfect. He was mopping so much that I phoned the Vet to enquire what should I do. He went on a 3 day hunger strike, though he would eat treats and drink water, would pass on regular food.

The Vet assured me that A) dogs do not, ever, let themselves die of hunger. B) Nicky was stressed by the move and all the changes.  All the while I was busy getting the new place in to shape. Painters came in to re-paint the apartment on 7 June just days after our effects had arrived. Then the spouse arrived on 9 June and instantly Nicky found his Joie de vivre and bounced back. All was well now and he could put the move behind him.

I was telling the Vet that often people will say that dogs are just dumb animals, I disagree. We have had dogs for 26 years now all of them Dachshunds and found that dogs can be very perceptive often more so than humans. They have their own personalities, witness Nora and Nicky, they are so different from each other, they are not related having different parents but nonetheless they are individuals.

Nora speaks to us in varying growls with many different pitches depending on what she is trying to say to us. Nicky whines or whimpers, he never growls unless he feels threatened. Nora barks to sound the alarm if someone approaches but Nicky does not. Nicky barks only if he is warning someone not to get to close or else. He also barks once sharply at 07:30am every morning for his breakfast, Nora never does.

I am sure they are both happy with their new home. Nora has lots of new parks to explore and she enjoys it immensely, she also wants to throw herself into the Hillsborough river behind the house. We won’t let her because it is the harbour and I do not want to have to go in after her. Nicky still does not like to walk, he never did, too lazy.

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Nicky and Nora hiding behind the hat.

 

 

 

 

On China and Emigration

13 Monday Jun 2016

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Canada., China, communist party, conflict, contradiction, Deng Xiao Ping, education, Emigration, immigration, rural, urban, Xi Jinping

Emigration is probably a phenomenon as old as humanity, humans have always had a need for one reason or another to move where the grass is greener. Canada is built on immigration and the oldest Federal government department is that of Immigration. It was created by Prime Minister Sir John A.Macdonald in order to populate this vast new country of Canada in 1873. Populating Canada has always been since 1608 the no.1 task of Royal Governors and various administrators. If one looks at the original 13 colonies of what would become one day the USA, one can see from the beginning a large influx of Europeans, mostly at the beginning Dutch and German with some English in the lot. The first two groups were so prominent in 1776 when the USA was created, German was considered as a possible official language of the new country. Canada was a very different story.

The USA population has always been 10 times greater than that of Canada, and the development of the 13 original colonies was much more robust and faster than that of New France and then after 1763 of Canada as a whole. Even in 1890 the fastest way to travel was often by river transport between major cities and then the train became the main highway to move people and goods. The USA already had a good road system and more infrastructure simply because they had a greater population than us. Per example in 1890 the total population of Canada was about 5 million people, whereas the USA had a population of 63 million people. So it is not difficult to understand why a strong immigration policy was necessary to allow for quick growth of the National Population in Canada.

Since 1873 Canada has been actively seeking and recruiting immigrants to populate the country. At first immigrants were mostly Europeans and this continued until about 1976 when the government of the time decided to focus more on other regions of the globe and focus less and less on Europe. Today the vast majority of immigrants to Canada come from India and China. From India it is mostly from one province alone the Punjab, this explains the visibility of this community and its presence in Parliament and in the current Federal Cabinet. It is a community which has integrated well on the whole and has been successful.

The Chinese started to arrive in large numbers in Canada as 1997 loomed, the return of the British Territory of Hong Kong to Communist China created a panic among the Cantonese speaking population of the British Colony and many thousand chose to come and live on the West Coast of Canada, Vancouver being the destination. In more recent years they in turn have been replaced by economic migrants from mainland China who are Mandarin speaking and seek economic advantages in Canada which they cannot have in China or wish to hide ill gotten loot, Canadian Courts have been busy in the last 20 years with notorious cases which endangered our diplomatic relations with China.

Many up to 40% per year come to Canada as immigrants only to disappear after obtaining Permanent Resident Status, it is believed that they end up in the USA where taxes are less than in Canada and salaries are much higher. This group of Chinese immigrants do not integrate well, living in closed ghettos amongst other Mandarin speaking Chinese, they shun Canadian society or anyone who is not from their Han, Mandarin speaking group. Their main goal is having a base in Canada through ownership of real estate. This in turn has created enormous social problems in British Columbia in and around Vancouver and in greater Toronto area, less so in Montreal, PEI appears to be the next target.

One problem which has alarmed financial circles, the IMF and now the Governor of the Bank of Canada is the unsustainable real estate speculation in many Canadian cities fuelled by the Chinese buyers. The news media has carried reports that in Vancouver alone house prices could appreciate by 75% in 2017 and by 50% in Toronto. This makes no logical sense and shows that speculation is the root of this phenomenon.  Another theory which circulates in Financial circles is that China could undermine a national economy with excessive speculation in various markets in the hope of fostering its own dominance. In Latin America and in Africa, China has displaced the USA as an investor.  A form of economic war which is not unknown in the long history of China with its neighbours in Asia.  Because of this aggressive policy, China has tense and difficult relations with India, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan.

The speculative bubble burst in Shanghai 6 years ago after massive speculation by home buyers and the deflation that ensued ruined many. This was due to some Party bosses corrupt practices and lack of regulations within the internal Chinese market.

Canadians also have another serious problem in individual personal debt currently at 167% per person. Yes Canadians are living well beyond their means. Any increase in interest rates which could happen next year could create a crisis here.

Having said this then what fuels the move out of China for so many are the unresolved contradictions the 1949 Communist takeover have not resolved within China and the constant rivalries between urban coastal communities and the vast rural areas of inner China. The revolution was to give the peasant class preeminence in Chinese Society and the Cities were to be marginalized, or so said Communist ideology, that is not what happened. Mao himself an uneducated peasant played the peasant rule all card against other Party bosses and was able to eliminate many of them between 1967-1976. However his luxurious life style and personality cult did nothing to resolve internal social contradictions between city and country.

An article in the New York Times of this past weekend presented the current problem of too rapid growth can create for a country like China and its unwieldy population. One of the main realization of the Communist Party in 1994 was to eradicate for the first time ever famine in Chinese history. The Party has also created consumer wealth with large infrastructure programs in the coastal area of the country benefitting about 500 million Chinese, however in the rest of the country where the other 900 million live, progress has been extremely slow and discontent is ripe. The challenges for the Party is an enormous one and authoritarian response by over using the riot police to quell dissent has not worked well.

The new party leader Xi JinPing is aware that to stay in power the Party has to focus more and more efforts on the vast rural areas and try to offer similar access to education and prosperity.  Ten years ago when I was in China the crisis of urban against rural came to a head, this was coupled with the Chinese migrant workers who came to the cities by the millions to work for peanuts so that the urban centres could look more modern or ”Western” with poorly built buildings. The peasant workers are exploited shamelessly by the Chinese entrepreneurs who often forgot to pay them and the Central Government who would not allow them to live in the cities beyond the terms of their work contracts, with a complex system of internal passports and visas to travel between cities, all of it controlled by the Police.

The Party is very anxious that the Western World think of China as a great nation. Vis-a-vis Europe and North America the Communist Party have a huge inferiority complex and a grudge. Official Propaganda called us Bourgeois Imperialist Paper Tigers while Mao was alive, after his death in 1976, the new leadership went on to copy the Capitalist model under Deng Xiao Ping and his program of accelerated consumerism with pseudo Marxist framework. Realizing that Mao’s Policies where about keeping him in power, bringing the death of millions through failed policies 1959-1961 and not advancing China, the Party had to re-invent itself.

Now Xi JinPing is offering more university seats to rural students in big city universities. He has modified the education program to copy the former Imperial Mandarin Education program which educated the elite who worked for the Emperor. Parents of students in cities like Beijing and Shanghai have been protesting this government decision to offer more placements to rural students who often have no chance at entering a prestigious university. They claim that they spent years preparing their children for the University entrance exams and will not allow peasants to take their place. In the countryside schools and universities are sub par and the education level is poor. There is none of the prosperity or affluence you see in cities and coastal areas, this despite years of efforts to bring up standards to those of urban centres. Systemic corruption of Communist Officials has also played its part in delaying progress in rural areas.

For those who can afford it there is always an education abroad in colleges and universities in Canada or the USA. However this is very expensive and not a guarantee of success since many Chinese students return to China to find out that their foreign degrees are rejected by Chinese employers on the basis that it is foreign thus not acceptable. English language skills are also very important in China if you wish to work for one of the big State Enterprises. Again many Chinese students returning from years in Canada or the USA are barely able to speak English, many lived in Chinese ghettos abroad finding it less challenging culturally.  Is this new policy of the Chinese Leadership like so many other a cosmetic attempt at solving an old Chinese problem, most probably and it will be said to work through official propaganda and decrees. The other solution of the Party is to make it easy for Chinese citizens to emigrate abroad while remaining loyal to the Party. This explains the constant presence of Senior Chinese Diplomats at any function given by Chinese business groups in Canada. This way the Communist Party reminds all that they may be living abroad but the Party is watching and monitors behaviour.

Despite more than 60 years of Communism and great upheavals, China remains a class society, where Communist Party affiliation, money and family name weighs in on your chance for advancement. It is a dictatorship and a Police State with allures of consumerism, no one should be fooled by this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books I read

10 Friday Jun 2016

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I finished two books one by Stephan Zweig and the other a personal biography by Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun on her life 1755-1842. Both are interesting because they present worlds that have disappeared. Written by authors who present in their own way how they saw the world. Zweig lived in intellectual circles and died in 1942. Vigée-Lebrun an ardent French Royalist, a survivor, portrait artist to Marie-Antoinette and European Royalty speaks of her world which was sophisticated and was a life in the Salon of the Palaces of Europe where ordinary mortals never entered. A retrospective of her works is being presented now at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Some of the paintings have never left Versailles since 1783, others come from private collections not open to the public. Well worth seeing.

I now turn to a book on Sicily, the largest Island of the Mediterranean who for 2500 years was colonized by a host of different invaders, the Greeks first, the Carthaginians and then the Romans, the Goths, the Byzantine, the Arabs, the Normans, the French, the Spaniards, finally the Italians from 1860. Sicilians are not Italians, they speak a different language, today Italian is the lingua franca. This book on Sicily is written by the eminent historian John Julius Norwich who is now 87 years old.

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I have visited Sicily at 3 separate times and I wish I was able to return and visit even more of this fabled Island. One of the greatest book of the 20th century was The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, it was made into a movie featuring Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale.  The Leopard is in a class by itself says Norwich and I agree. As Norwich points out a Non-Sicilian will never be able to  penetrate the Island’s mysteries.

All this to say that Sicily is a fascinated place, of great wealth, culturally, artistically, cullinarily, historically and archeologically. Sicily also produces some of the best wines from Italy though we tend to hear more about Tuscany. I brought back in 2011 a large number of cases of wine from Sicily, wonderful high quality.This book by Norwich is a delight and having been to many cities all around the Island it is a pleasure to re-discover them through Norwich’s eyes. The Sicilians are also an interesting people often un-happy with the latest invaders, but suffering with quiet dignity.

Maybe this book by Norwich on Sicily will incite me to return to the Island for another visit.

 

 

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