My November 22, 1999 blog : " Congratulate China in Space "

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1999 Congratulate China in space Only a lunatic would want us to have an antagonistic relationship with China. Two billion people and now : China in Space ! " The spacecraft Shenzhou was launched yesterday " . Perhaps touching outer space will make " communist " China a more " spiritual "nation. China's civilization is so old that one day its 20th century history might seem just a nightmare aberration. The Old China must still be there -and the old Chinese Wisdom . I enjoyed reading Lin Yutang's book " The Importance of Living " - definitely pre-revolutionary Chinese thinking. No tolerance for life loving " scamps " in China today. Lin's book is just gathering dust in American public libraries today. Are any contemporary Chinese scholars familiar with this Chino-American scholar? I recall an old illustrated children's book : " The Five Chinese Brothers " . One of them "swallowed the sea" ! A metaphor for China's future appetite ?