Yes, your comment really shown that they never do a Good Balanced Reporting !!!! Many Many pairs of eyes are definitely better than just a pair of eyes. I mean people will definitely notice what is a good report.

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If we care about Tibet and the way of life that Tibetans are trying to keep, we must ask for Peace and True Autonomy for Tibet, just like Hong Kong. Ask Chinese Government to treat Tibet like they treat Hong Kong. This should be a peaceful and acceptable road map for both sides, though it may take many years. More analyses here.

And all this, has got nothing to do with Olympic. Whether you are Tibetan-Chinese or Han-Chinese or even overseas Chinese like me, let’s hope for a successul Beijing 2008 Olympic.

Who are you talking to? Westerners?

Because I don’t think they care about what you what you are saying. NO matter how much you want the west to respect and ‘understand’ the chinese, whatever that means, it won’t happen. There’s a natural pecking order of the world and china/asia is still middle of the road at best.

In 200 years, China will have all the same societal problems as the USA and Europe have now. There nothing special about the path China is talking. 70+% of China still live in brutal poverty.

By-the-way, do I have to speak chinese to understand you mentality? Or travel in China? I’ve been to China, dirty & over-populated…good food though.

The CCP it seems is still very naive when it comes to dealing with negatives, especially from western nations.

Chinese need to stop worrying about what the world thinks of them and try to take care of the 70% of it’s people who still live in poverty and are uneducated.

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BEIJING — Susan Brownell has qualifications that few can match as an authority on sports in China.

An academic and Virginia native, Ms. Brownell speaks and reads Chinese. She has lived in China for years and knows all the top Chinese sports officials. To top it off, she was a nationally ranked U.S. track-and-field athlete who also competed on Chinese teams.

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• Background: Susan Brownell, a University of Missouri, St. Louis, anthropologist, is an expert on Chinese sports. She speaks Chinese and was once a track-and-field athlete.
• Her View: She believes China’s sports system isn’t an evil medal machine as sometimes portrayed, and she says Beijing is a worthy Olympics host.But Ms. Brownell has a conclusion that many in the West might find surprising: that China’s sports system isn’t the evil medal machine portrayed in the popular press. She also thinks China will not only put on a good Olympics but is a worthy host in the best tradition of the Olympics — even with the turmoil in the West over Tibet.

“The moment is right for China to hold the games,” says Ms. Brownell, who thinks the uproar can help push a rethink in China about its policy toward Tibet and other minorities. “How it responds, we’ll see.”

Susan Brownell
Ms. Brownell has laid out her views in her second book on China’s sports system, “Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China,” which was published in February. She says she expects the book to be widely criticized.

In fact, she says even her mother had trouble with the book.

Last summer, when she was revising the book, she went home to visit her mother and asked her to review it. While Ms. Brownell sat on an upstairs balcony reading proofs, she began to hear her mother on the patio below.

“She’d yell upstairs her disapproval,” Ms. Brownell says. “It was the idea that China is an evil government that oppresses its people — human rights, religious freedom and so on.”

Ms. Brownell doesn’t dispute that China has problems, but she says many Western criticisms are hypocritical or ignore the huge progress China has made in many areas. More than that, she sees the two sides’ failure to understand each other as a tragedy.

“When you see the enthusiasm, the idealism and the faith in a better future and then when you look at the perception abroad — that it’s propping up a regime, air pollution, child-athlete factories — there is a disjuncture,” Ms. Brownell says.

Ms. Brownell, a 47-year-old anthropologist at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, has also recently translated into English the biography of China’s only member of the International Olympic Committee. And she has gone further, sometimes advising Chinese officials on how to be more effective in communicating with the West.

In the small world of academics who write on sports in China, Ms. Brownell’s positions are by far the most optimistic.

“Susan wants to counteract prejudices against the PRC and she seems, sometimes, to become an apologist for the regime,” wrote Allen Guttmann, a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts who has written on sports history, in an email answer to a query. “Mostly, however, I think she’s about as objective as is possible. I don’t think, in anthropological jargon, that she’s ‘gone native.’”

Susan Brownell is in Beijing on a Fulbright grant, researching a book on the Games.
Ms. Brownell says some of her sympathy for China comes from her personal athletic and educational background. She grew up on a farm near the Appalachian Mountains in Lexington, Va. That was before the Title IX federal act required schools to give girls equal access to sports. She ran on the boys track team in high school and went to University of Virginia on a full athletic scholarship. She was immediately attracted to anthropology because she felt it tried to understand other cultures rather than immediately judge them.

In sports, her disciplines were the pentathlon and heptathlon. She competed in the 1980 and 1984 Olympic trials but didn’t make the team. She went to China the next year as a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While in China, she competed for a team made up of Beijing athletes in the 1986 National College Games. Her stunning success — she won a gold in the heptathlon and two silvers — earned her the sobriquet of “The American Girl Who Won Glory for Beijing.”

She was on her way to qualifying for the 1988 U.S. Olympic trials, which would have meant an impressive three straight trials. But she realized that it wasn’t her profession anymore and stayed on in China. “I had to say I am an anthropologist, not an athlete,” she said.

In 1995, she came out with a book on the growing importance of sport in China, which also recounted her adventures in Chinese athletics. She said participating in China made her realize that Chinese athletes are hardly different from other countries’.

“I got involved in figure skating in the U.S. and believe me, the children there are up at all hours practicing, and the parents are pushing them, too,” she says. “When I see things like ‘assembly line of pain’ in the U.S. media to describe Chinese sports schools, I think it’s ridiculous.”

Susan Brownell, far left, accepting the sixth-place award for Beijing University in the 1986 Beijing City College Meet.
One of the main problems, she says, is that the people who write about Chinese sports know very little about China. “One of the problems really is sports journalism,” she says. “Most sports journalists are commentators and don’t really investigate.”

Western reporters, she says, also assume that much is secret in China and use that as an excuse to make all sorts of claims or generalizations. She was recently asked by a reporter for a national U.S. magazine to use her contacts to get him a copy of China’s policy on athletes’ commercial endorsements. Half an hour later, Ms. Brownell emailed the reporter a copy — it had been on the sport authority’s Internet site. “People assume it’s all secret in China but that’s only because they can’t read Chinese,” she says.

Likewise, she views skeptically generalizations about Chinese not having a sports history — a critique often made to debase China’s gold-medal haul. The argument is that China participates in the Olympics only to win national glory and not out of any legitimate sporting tradition. But Ms. Brownell says that most of what we know about the Olympics is based on more than a century of intense archaeological work in Greece. That sort of work has never been done in China, she says.

A cursory glance at the written record, however, shows that some sports, such as horse racing and wrestling, played key roles in some of the dynasties that ruled China. “China has been written out of sports history,” she says.

This accounts for the lack of non-Western sports in the Olympics — in fact, the only explicitly non-Western sports are judo from Japan (introduced at the 1964 Tokyo games) and tae kwan do from Korea (introduced at the 1988 Seoul games). China tried to get its own form of martial arts, wushu, introduced this year, but the request was turned down.

Although she now has tenure at the university, her efforts to understand — and even help — China haven’t always been to her professional advantage. She spent four years translating the biography of IOC member He Zhenliang for a government-run press in China. She did it because she “felt a sense of mission” to explain China’s IOC involvement from its point of view. She has also screened government Olympic ads aimed at foreigners.

“Chinese do have trouble communicating with Westerners,” she says. “They are more reserved and formal and careful.”

Ms. Brownell is in Beijing for the year on a Fulbright grant. She is researching a book on how the Games played out and putting down her thoughts occasionally on a blog (http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/). The U.S. Embassy in Beijing has asked her to write a biweekly blog.

“I view my work as a cultural bridge. I assume that how I write is not how Chinese people see it, and they wouldn’t agree with everything, but I do my best to represent their views so they can be understood by English speakers