Unit 731 museum opens in NE China
A museum that revisits the wartime atrocities conducted by Japanese military unit 731 during World War II opened in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Saturday, the 70th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender.
Harbin's Saint Sophia Cathedral (China)
The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom of God or Saint Sophia Cathedral / 聖索菲亞教堂 / Софийский собор в Харбине in Harbin is a former Russian Orthodox church located in the central district of Daoli, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
St. Sophia Orthodox Cathedral was built in 1907 after the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1903, which connected Vladivostok to northeast China. The Russian No.4 Army Division arrived in this region just after Russia's loss to the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). St. Sophia Church was built and completed of timber in March, 1907 as part of a plan to reconsolidate the confidence of the army by building an imposing spiritual symbol.
In 1921, Harbin had a population of 300,000, including 100,000 Russians. The church was expanded and renovated from September 23, 1923, when a ceremony was held to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone, to its completion on November 25, 1932, after nine years. The present-day St. Sophia Church was hailed as a monumental work of art and the largest Orthodox church in the Far East.
According to Harbin municipal religious and Daoli district archives, Fr. Fotiy Huo Desheng was the ninth rector of St. Sophia Church of Harbin.
The church is located on the corner of Toulong Street (Toulong jie) and Zhaolin Street (Zhaolin jie). It stands at 53.3 meters (175 ft) tall, occupies an area of 721 square meters (0.18 acres), and is the perfect example of Neo-Byzantine architecture. The main structure is laid out like a cross with the main hall topped with a huge green-tipped dome. Under the bright sun, the church and the square area it stands on look quite like Red Square in Moscow.
Following the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China in 1949 by the victorious Communists, who ended all Christian missionary work, treaties were signed between the Soviet and Chinese governments that provided for the turning over of Russian churches to Chinese control. The cathedral was thus closed from the period of the Great Leap Forward (1958–61) and Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
Although the cathedral's sturdy structure withstood its intended destruction during the Cultural Revolution, its empty hull became a warehouse for a nearby state-run department store, its windows were bricked up and saplings grew from the roof. Prefabricated concrete high-rises boxed the church in on all four sides, coming within yards of its walls, making the cathedral inaccessible and invisible from the street. For decades it remained the invisible center of the city, surrounded by decorative material stalls, an auto body shop, a pen factory, and apartments for city government employees, until the Beijing government designated the cathedral a national cultural heritage site in 1996 as part of a nationwide campaign to protect historical sites.
Following its designation in 1996 as a national cultural heritage site (First class Preserved Building), a newspaper article about the hidden cathedral prompted donations from locals to restore the church. Local corporations, individual businesses as well as workers from nearby department stores donated money to restore the cathedral and renovate the square. A total of 12,000,000 yuan (approximately $1.5 million US) was eventually gathered and the cathedral regained its visibility in 1997, as the surrounding buildings were torn down.
A new Harbin Architecture Square conspicuously highlighted the cathedral with a huge new fountain at its entrance. The European-looking space was assigned a new meaning as the embodiment of culture and art and was re-presented to the public as the proud heritage of the city.
As of 1997 the cathedral was turned into the Municipal Architecture and Art Museum (Harbin Architectural Art Gallery), showcasing the multi-cultural architectural developments of Harbin throughout the ages.
《錦繡中國》黑龍江·柴河 0103 | Fantastic China, Chai River, Heilongjiang Province Ep. 22 HD
黑龍江省柴河“威虎山國家森林公園”，位於黑龍江省東南部牡丹江下游的蓮花湖畔，是紅色經典小說《林海雪原》和現代京劇《智取威虎山》中剿匪故事的發祥地，是黑龍江省佔地面積最大的森林公園，公園內南北縱橫百里的蓮花湖，是牡丹江流域最大的人工湖。威虎山國家森林公園內擁有威虎山九寨、威虎山雪村、蓮花湖二道灣、威虎山天池(鷹嘴峰)、威虎山漂流、威虎山展館、水上樂園等眾多景區景點，具有“春來修身養性，夏到避暑納涼，秋看五花山色，冬賞冰骨雪韻”的獨特魅力，是集森林旅遊、休閒渡假、康樂健身，紅色革命文化教育為一身的綜合性森林旅遊風景區。
Tiger Mountain National Forest Park” in Chai River, Heilongjiang Province, located in Lotus Lake in the lower reaches of Mudan River in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, is the birthplace of the red classic novel Tracks in the snowy forest and Modern Peking opera The Taking of Tiger Mountain, and the largest forest park in Heilongjiang Province. The Lake Lotus in the forest park is the largest artificial lake in Mudanjiang River Valley. There are nine stockade villages, snow village, Erdaowan in Lake Lotus, Tianchi (olecranon peak), river rafting, museums, water park and some other attractions in Tiger mountain. People can cultivate their minds in spring, feel the coolness in summer, and enjoy the mountain view in fall and beautiful snow in winter. It is also a forest tourism scenic area with a combination of forest tourism, leisure, exercises, and cultural education of red revolution.
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《錦繡中國》集萃中國各地優質旅遊宣傳品及城市形象片進行雙語剪輯製作，欄目同時面向國內及境外觀眾，向全國觀眾推薦中國的旅遊城市及壯美山河風光，為中國的旅遊產業做出貢獻。分發平台包括國內的今日頭條、騰訊視頻、愛奇藝、優酷等網站，以及境外的Facebook和YouTube，歡迎供稿：travel@fjlytv.com。
Fantastic China is a series of select bilingual travel publicity films about different cities and provinces in China. It aims to show the splendid and amazing sceneries of China to audience around the world and makes a good contribution to Chinese tourist industry. It will upload videos on several domestic platforms including Headline Today(Jinritoutiao), Tencent Video, iqiyi, and Youku and overseas websites Facebook and YouTube. Contributions are most welcome: travel@fjlytv.com.
《錦繡中國》黑龍江·柴河(2) 0104 | Fantastic China, Chai River, Heilongjiang Province Ep. 23 HD
黑龍江省柴河“威虎山國家森林公園”，位於黑龍江省東南部牡丹江下游的蓮花湖畔，是紅色經典小說《林海雪原》和現代京劇《智取威虎山》中剿匪故事的發祥地，是黑龍江省佔地面積最大的森林公園，公園內南北縱橫百里的蓮花湖，是牡丹江流域最大的人工湖。威虎山國家森林公園內擁有威虎山九寨、威虎山雪村、蓮花湖二道灣、威虎山天池(鷹嘴峰)、威虎山漂流、威虎山展館、水上樂園等眾多景區景點，具有“春來修身養性，夏到避暑納涼，秋看五花山色，冬賞冰骨雪韻”的獨特魅力，是集森林旅遊、休閒渡假、康樂健身，紅色革命文化教育為一身的綜合性森林旅遊風景區。
Tiger Mountain National Forest Park” in Chai River, Heilongjiang Province, located in Lotus Lake in the lower reaches of Mudan River in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, is the birthplace of the red classic novel Tracks in the snowy forest and Modern Peking opera The Taking of Tiger Mountain, and the largest forest park in Heilongjiang Province. The Lake Lotus in the forest park is the largest artificial lake in Mudanjiang River Valley. There are nine stockade villages, snow village, Erdaowan in Lake Lotus, Tianchi (olecranon peak), river rafting, museums, water park and some other attractions in Tiger mountain. People can cultivate their minds in spring, feel the coolness in summer, and enjoy the mountain view in fall and beautiful snow in winter. It is also a forest tourism scenic area with a combination of forest tourism, leisure, exercises, and cultural education of red revolution.
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《錦繡中國》集萃中國各地優質旅遊宣傳品及城市形象片進行雙語剪輯製作，欄目同時面向國內及境外觀眾，向全國觀眾推薦中國的旅遊城市及壯美山河風光，為中國的旅遊產業做出貢獻。分發平台包括國內的今日頭條、騰訊視頻、愛奇藝、優酷等網站，以及境外的Facebook和YouTube，歡迎供稿：travel@fjlytv.com。
Fantastic China is a series of select bilingual travel publicity films about different cities and provinces in China. It aims to show the splendid and amazing sceneries of China to audience around the world and makes a good contribution to Chinese tourist industry. It will upload videos on several domestic platforms including Headline Today(Jinritoutiao), Tencent Video, iqiyi, and Youku and overseas websites Facebook and YouTube. Contributions are most welcome: travel@fjlytv.com.
(3) Li Zhensheng’s Talk (Witness: The Archive of Cultural Revolution) - The Destruction of Temples
- Part 3 - Li Zhensheng’s Public Talk (Witness: The Archive of Cultural Revolution) (Photos Courtesy of Li Zhensheng, SIPF 2016)
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China’s Cultural Revolution – The Hidden Photos: The Destruction of Temple of Bliss
When the Cultural Revolution first began, Mr Li was very hopeful and enthusiastic as he believed it could help advance the development of culture. However, the event turned out to be beyond his imagination. An inordinate outburst of violence and struggle sessions occurred soon after the onset of this socio-political upheaval. What struck him, in particular, was the assault on the party leader of Heilongjiang, Ren Zhongyi, who was “an amicable man”.
According to the ‘Nine Commentaries’, “struggle” was the primary “belief” of the Communist Party to create terror and maintain its rule in China. Through terror, the “Chinese people tremble in their hearts, submit to the terror, and gradually become enslaved under the CCP’s control”.
Mr Li was also shaken by the destruction of temples.
The photo above shows the destruction of the famous Temple of Bliss located in Harbin city, Heilongjiang Province. The temple, which housed many cultural relics and was the biggest Buddhist temple built in modern times (1921), was wrecked during the Cultural Revolution.
“The Communist Party does not believe in God, nor does it even respect physical nature,” the ‘Nine Commentaries’ points out. The Cultural Revolution motto (“Battle with heaven, fight with the earth, struggle with humans—therein lies endless joy”) had caused the Chinese people to suffer enormous suffering and agony.
“How could they ruin this culture in the name of Cultural Revolution?” Mr Li thought.
After witnessing this appalling spate of attacks and destruction, Mr Li started having ambivalent feelings towards the Cultural Revolution.
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Editor’s Note:
Some people may think that these brutalities belong to the past, and that CCP has changed. However, the savage persecution of Falun Gong – a traditional Chinese meditation practice that adheres to the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance” – in recent years indicates otherwise.
The persecution of Falun Gong signals another oppression as vicious as the Cultural Revolution. CCP continues to use the same old methods of inciting hate and instigating violence against Falun Gong by “ruining their reputations, bankrupting [them] financially, and destroying [them] physically”.
Under the deceptive façade of the Chinese Communist Party, a state-run medical genocide has been carried out by the Chinese Communist Party since 2000, which may have performed up to 1.5 million organ transplants from unwilling live donors, mostly from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience, according to a new China organ harvesting report published on June 22. [1]
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[1] Robertson, Matthew. “Report Reveals Vast State-Run Industry to Harvest Organs in China.” Epoch Times. 22 June 2016.
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Harbin's Saint Sophia Cathedral (Slideshow) / 聖索菲亞教堂 / Софийский собор в Харбине
The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom of God or Saint Sophia Cathedral / 聖索菲亞教堂 / Софийский собор в Харбине in Harbin is a former Russian Orthodox church located in the central district of Daoli, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
St. Sophia Orthodox Cathedral was built in 1907 after the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1903, which connected Vladivostok to northeast China. The Russian No.4 Army Division arrived in this region just after Russia's loss to the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). St. Sophia Church was built and completed of timber in March, 1907 as part of a plan to reconsolidate the confidence of the army by building an imposing spiritual symbol.
In 1921, Harbin had a population of 300,000, including 100,000 Russians. The church was expanded and renovated from September 23, 1923, when a ceremony was held to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone, to its completion on November 25, 1932, after nine years. The present-day St. Sophia Church was hailed as a monumental work of art and the largest Orthodox church in the Far East.
According to Harbin municipal religious and Daoli district archives, Fr. Fotiy Huo Desheng was the ninth rector of St. Sophia Church of Harbin.
The church is located on the corner of Toulong Street (Toulong jie) and Zhaolin Street (Zhaolin jie). It stands at 53.3 meters (175 ft) tall, occupies an area of 721 square meters (0.18 acres), and is the perfect example of Neo-Byzantine architecture. The main structure is laid out like a cross with the main hall topped with a huge green-tipped dome. Under the bright sun, the church and the square area it stands on look quite like Red Square in Moscow.
Following the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China in 1949 by the victorious Communists, who ended all Christian missionary work, treaties were signed between the Soviet and Chinese governments that provided for the turning over of Russian churches to Chinese control. The cathedral was thus closed from the period of the Great Leap Forward (1958–61) and Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
Although the cathedral's sturdy structure withstood its intended destruction during the Cultural Revolution, its empty hull became a warehouse for a nearby state-run department store, its windows were bricked up and saplings grew from the roof. Prefabricated concrete high-rises boxed the church in on all four sides, coming within yards of its walls, making the cathedral inaccessible and invisible from the street. For decades it remained the invisible center of the city, surrounded by decorative material stalls, an auto body shop, a pen factory, and apartments for city government employees, until the Beijing government designated the cathedral a national cultural heritage site in 1996 as part of a nationwide campaign to protect historical sites.
Following its designation in 1996 as a national cultural heritage site (First class Preserved Building), a newspaper article about the hidden cathedral prompted donations from locals to restore the church. Local corporations, individual businesses as well as workers from nearby department stores donated money to restore the cathedral and renovate the square. A total of 12,000,000 yuan (approximately $1.5 million US) was eventually gathered and the cathedral regained its visibility in 1997, as the surrounding buildings were torn down.
A new Harbin Architecture Square conspicuously highlighted the cathedral with a huge new fountain at its entrance. The European-looking space was assigned a new meaning as the embodiment of culture and art and was re-presented to the public as the proud heritage of the city.
As of 1997 the cathedral was turned into the Municipal Architecture and Art Museum (Harbin Architectural Art Gallery), showcasing the multi-cultural architectural developments of Harbin throughout the ages.
Harbin's Saint Sophia Cathedral / 聖索菲亞教堂 / Софийский собор в Харбине
The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom of God or Saint Sophia Cathedral / 聖索菲亞教堂 / Софийский собор в Харбине in Harbin is a former Russian Orthodox church located in the central district of Daoli, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
St. Sophia Orthodox Cathedral was built in 1907 after the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1903, which connected Vladivostok to northeast China. The Russian No.4 Army Division arrived in this region just after Russia's loss to the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). St. Sophia Church was built and completed of timber in March, 1907 as part of a plan to reconsolidate the confidence of the army by building an imposing spiritual symbol.
In 1921, Harbin had a population of 300,000, including 100,000 Russians. The church was expanded and renovated from September 23, 1923, when a ceremony was held to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone, to its completion on November 25, 1932, after nine years. The present-day St. Sophia Church was hailed as a monumental work of art and the largest Orthodox church in the Far East.
According to Harbin municipal religious and Daoli district archives, Fr. Fotiy Huo Desheng was the ninth rector of St. Sophia Church of Harbin.
The church is located on the corner of Toulong Street (Toulong jie) and Zhaolin Street (Zhaolin jie). It stands at 53.3 meters (175 ft) tall, occupies an area of 721 square meters (0.18 acres), and is the perfect example of Neo-Byzantine architecture. The main structure is laid out like a cross with the main hall topped with a huge green-tipped dome. Under the bright sun, the church and the square area it stands on look quite like Red Square in Moscow.
Following the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China in 1949 by the victorious Communists, who ended all Christian missionary work, treaties were signed between the Soviet and Chinese governments that provided for the turning over of Russian churches to Chinese control. The cathedral was thus closed from the period of the Great Leap Forward (1958–61) and Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
Although the cathedral's sturdy structure withstood its intended destruction during the Cultural Revolution, its empty hull became a warehouse for a nearby state-run department store, its windows were bricked up and saplings grew from the roof. Prefabricated concrete high-rises boxed the church in on all four sides, coming within yards of its walls, making the cathedral inaccessible and invisible from the street. For decades it remained the invisible center of the city, surrounded by decorative material stalls, an auto body shop, a pen factory, and apartments for city government employees, until the Beijing government designated the cathedral a national cultural heritage site in 1996 as part of a nationwide campaign to protect historical sites.
Following its designation in 1996 as a national cultural heritage site (First class Preserved Building), a newspaper article about the hidden cathedral prompted donations from locals to restore the church. Local corporations, individual businesses as well as workers from nearby department stores donated money to restore the cathedral and renovate the square. A total of 12,000,000 yuan (approximately $1.5 million US) was eventually gathered and the cathedral regained its visibility in 1997, as the surrounding buildings were torn down.
A new Harbin Architecture Square conspicuously highlighted the cathedral with a huge new fountain at its entrance. The European-looking space was assigned a new meaning as the embodiment of culture and art and was re-presented to the public as the proud heritage of the city.
As of 1997 the cathedral was turned into the Municipal Architecture and Art Museum (Harbin Architectural Art Gallery), showcasing the multi-cultural architectural developments of Harbin throughout the ages.
Harbin | Wikipedia audio article
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Harbin
00:01:59 1 History
00:02:08 1.1 Early history
00:04:47 1.2 International city
00:10:14 1.3 Japanese invasion period
00:14:57 1.4 After World War II
00:20:28 2 Geography
00:21:59 2.1 Climate
00:23:39 3 Administrative divisions
00:23:57 4 Economy
00:27:22 4.1 Economic Development Zones and Ports
00:31:34 5 Demographics
00:31:43 5.1 Population
00:33:01 5.2 Ethnic groups
00:33:47 5.3 Religion
00:34:31 6 Culture
00:35:01 6.1 Dialect
00:35:24 6.2 Cuisine
00:39:18 6.3 Winter culture
00:42:10 6.4 iThe Music City/i
00:43:03 6.4.1 Harbin Summer Music Concert
00:44:38 6.5 Media
00:44:46 6.6 Television and radio
00:45:39 7 Architecture
00:46:07 7.1 Historical architecture
00:48:10 7.2 Modern architecture
00:49:20 8 Sports
00:51:59 8.1 Events
00:53:18 9 Transport
00:53:27 9.1 Railway
00:55:47 9.2 Road
00:57:07 9.3 Air
00:58:20 9.4 Subway
01:00:28 9.5 Ports and waterways
01:01:05 10 Education
01:02:45 11 Military
01:03:16 12 International relations
01:04:11 13 See also
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Harbin (Manchu: Harbin; Chinese: 哈尔滨 Hā'ěrbīn) is the capital of Heilongjiang province, and largest city in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties. Harbin is the eighth most populous Chinese city according to the 2010 census, the built-up area (which consists of all districts except Shuangcheng and Acheng) had 5,282,093 inhabitants, while the total population of the sub-provincial city was up to 10,635,971. Harbin serves as a key political, economic, scientific, cultural, and communications hub in Northeast China, as well as an important industrial base of the nation.Harbin, whose name was originally a Manchu word meaning a place for drying fishing nets, grew from a small rural settlement on the Songhua River to become one of the largest cities in Northeast China. Founded in 1898 with the coming of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the city first prospered as a region inhabited by an overwhelming majority of the immigrants from the Russian Empire.Having the most bitterly cold winters among major Chinese cities, Harbin is heralded as the Ice City for its well-known winter tourism and recreations. Harbin is notable for its beautiful ice sculpture festival in the winter. Besides being well known for its historical Russian legacy, the city serves as an important gateway in Sino-Russian trade today, containing a sizable population of Russian diaspora. In the 1920s, the city was considered China's fashion capital since new designs from Paris and Moscow reached here first before arriving in Shanghai. The city was voted China Top Tourist City by the China National Tourism Administration in 2004. On 22 June 2010, Harbin was appointed a City of Music by the UN.
Wang Guangyi 王廣義 1957 Neo-Pop Art Chinese
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Wang Guangyi (in Chinese:王廣義, born 1957) is a Chinese artist. He is known as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989, and for his Great Criticism series of paintings which use images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising.
Wang Guangyi was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in 1957. Wang's father was a railway worker in northeastern China. Like many other people, Wang experienced the influence of the Cultural Revolution and had to work in a rural village for three years. He too became a railway worker.[2] Wang tried for four years to get into a college. After several failed attempts, he enrolled at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated from the oil painting department of the academy in 1984. He lives and works in Beijing, China.
His work is considered in China to be in the Political Pop genre
王廣義，中國藝術家，1957年生於中國黑龍江省哈爾濱市。作為一個起於1980年代的中國新藝術運動的主要參與者之一而被廣泛熟知。他創作的名為《大批判》的系列作品尤其獲得了全世界的關注。儘管王廣義的作品一直被錯誤地和中國政治波普聯繫在一起；但實際上，他的藝術中的另外一個方面，是和超驗性有着其相關性。
王廣義以中國東北的一個鐵路工人兒子的身份經歷了文化大革命（1966-1976）。他經歷了三年的下鄉，而在他的父親退休之後成為了一名鐵路工人。儘管這時暫時沒有了上大學的希望，但他卻沒有從未放棄過這個夢想。在幾次失敗之後，他成功考入了浙江美術學院，並於1984年畢業和獲得油畫專業學位。目前居住和工作於中國北京。儘管王廣義經歷過童年的物質貧乏，但是他總是儘量不談及金錢與財富相關的話題。王廣義用他的《大批判》系列獲得了批評家和國際藝術市場的關注，成為了中國當代藝術的標識性人物。
《大批判》系列在學術和市場上的迅速成功，讓一些批評家認為他就像他之前的藝術家一樣，比如達利和沃霍爾，過於專注於已經獲得巨大成功的作品的生產。而事實上，藝術家總在同時就不止一個系列的作品在進行工作，而於2007年他徹底地終止了《大批判》系列作品的創作。
Healthy Chinese Petitioners Subjected to Forced Psychiatric Treatment
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Subjecting healthy citizens to forced psychiatric treatment
is a routine practice under the Chinese Communist Party.
This is done in the name of maintaining stability.
Recently, a website that defends rights in
China published it's annual report on China's
mental health and human rights in 2013.
The report revealed that many petitioners faced forced
psychiatric treatment. The following is our report.
Human rights organisation 'Civil Rights and Livelihood
Watch' published it's annual report on February 13.
It has been closely following activists being
forced into psychiatric hospital treatments.
The report revealed that a wide range of Chinese
people are forcibly treated in psychiatric hospitals.
They range from all sections of society, including a party
secretary, judge, university faculty staff, to a butcher.
It also includes migrant workers, but mostly, it
consists of petitioners, who are healthy citizens.
Cases of psychiatric abuse are widespread in China,
including in Liaoning, Anhui, Hunan, and Shanghai.
Included in the report is the case of petitioner
Xing Shiku, from Harbin in Heilongjiang Province.
He is currently detained under forced psychiatric treatment.
Xing Shiku's wife Zhao Guirong explains that
her husbands rights were seriously violated
during the reorganization of his work unit in 2006.
He went to Beijing to petition, but in 2007,
the healthy Xing Shiku was abducted.
He was illegally detained in a psychiatric hospital.
To defend her husband, Zhao Guirong also
went to Beijing, hoping to resolve the issue.
However, Zhao Guirong was repeatedly kidnapped
back to Heilongjiang and tortured in a black jail.
Zhao Guirong, Harbin resident: There is no
freedom, even our lives and health are threatened.
Release my husband! Let my family be reunited!
No one should deprive our rights of freedom.
My basic human rights deserve to be respected!
I am afraid that if my husband stays in
hospital any longer, they will kill him.
When I was detained in the black jail, they poisoned me.
The annual report also lists ten most prevalent
psychiatric tortures that were reported in 2013.
This includes being tied up, long-term imprisonment
in a solitary cell, forced ingestion of medicines,
and force-feeding through the nose.
Among all the tortures, these were deemed by
eye-witnesses as the most terrifying means.
The victims of electric shock torture
are often left with burned temples.
Hu Jia, Beijing activist: It is even darker than other tortures.
In the psychiatric hospitals, it is not about
physical work, but it destroys your mind.
It develops an intimidating obedience. I myself was
almost subjected to forced psychiatric treatment.
The Chinese Communist regime abuses
psychiatric diagnoses in order to detain
and brutally persecute healthy individuals.
Many victims of this treatment are the
largely persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.
Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.
Since then, a high number of Falun Gong practitioners
have been confirmed disabled, mentally tortured, or
simply missing, because of forced psychiatric torture.
US-based Falun Gong Human Rights
Working Group published a report in 2012.
It detailed 1,089 cases, where more than 150 hospitals
were conducting abusive torture and forced psychiatric
treatments on Falun Gong practitioners.
The report concluded that many healthy Falun Gong
practitioners throughout China have been subjected
to forced injections, and feed with unknown drugs.
This treatment under detention in psychiatric
hospitals and rehabilitiation centres
damages the central nervous system.
Some individuals were left paralyzed or partially paralyzed.
Others were left blind or deaf, with permanent
damage to muscles and organs, or with loss of memory.
Other cases showed sudden death through seizures.
The tight censorship blockade on information by the regime
suggests these reported cases are only the tip of the iceberg.
The actual number of persecuted victims
in the psychiatric hospitals is yet unknown.
Tang Jitian, Beijing human rights lawyer: It is largely
due to abusive powers of the police and the authorities.
Ordinary Chinese people can expect
to have no rights and no security.
This reflects a lack of boundaries with officials actions,
including the defining mental illness and forced treatment.
Although the CCP regime abolished the notorious labor
camp system, petitioners continue to be illegally detained.
They are now being kept in the newly emerging
Admonition and Education Center for Non-Normal Petition.
These centres have appeared in Nanyang,
Zhumadian, Dengzhou , and Xinxiang.
Hu Jia: With the abolition of the labor camp system, forced
psychiatric treatment is sure to become more prevalent.
《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点
Wang Guangyi Solo Exhibition in MOCA@Loewen, 12 Jan 2016
Date : 12 January 2016 to 12 February 2016 Time : 10.00am to 6.00pm Daily
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MoCA@Loewen is honored to present the Grand Solo Exhibition by Chinese Contemporary Artist Wang Guangyi. The exhibition will be from 12 January – 12 February 2016. Artist will be in Singapore for the opening on the 12 January 2016, 7pm.
Titled ‘Image Correction’, this exhibition showcases Wang’s aesthetic expression of the political paradox. Wang illustrates major historical events, which we are unable to ignore. Through his works, Wang considers this series as him “playing a serious game”. The works in his new series have strong connections with each other. They are specific, relevant and correlating.
Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in 1957, Wang Guangyi studied art within the context of the Cultural Revolution initiated by Mao Zedong in the 1970's. Wang enrolled at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts and graduated from the oil painting department of the academy in 1984. Wang currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
Wang is best known for his Great Criticism series of paintings, which use images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising. Wang is very much considered as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989.
Despite facing constant criticism for his works, Wang sees these criticisms as a motivation to step out of his psychological comfort zone, to make changes, and seek for objects, which can come into effect in our contemporary society. Wang begins to think about the final form of artistic practice by creating works associated with great men, symbols and myths. These works involves no representation but focuses on the exploration of the concept.
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00:02:05 1 History
00:02:15 1.1 Early history
00:04:52 1.2 International city
00:16:10 1.3 Japanese invasion period
00:22:00 1.4 After World War II
00:28:30 2 Geography
00:30:13 2.1 Climate
00:32:04 3 Administrative divisions
00:32:24 4 Economy
00:36:14 4.1 Economic Development Zones and Ports
00:40:57 5 Demographics
00:41:06 5.1 Population
00:42:35 5.2 Ethnic groups
00:43:28 5.3 Religion
00:44:17 6 Culture
00:44:51 6.1 Dialect
00:45:16 6.2 Cuisine
00:49:39 6.3 Winter culture
00:52:54 6.4 iThe Music City/i
00:53:54 6.4.1 Harbin Summer Music Concert
00:55:41 6.5 Media
00:55:50 6.6 Television and radio
00:56:48 7 Architecture
00:57:19 7.1 Historical architecture
00:59:40 7.2 Modern architecture
01:00:57 8 Sports
01:03:56 8.1 Events
01:05:25 9 Transport
01:05:35 9.1 Railway
01:08:33 9.2 Road
01:09:58 9.3 Air
01:11:18 9.4 Metro
01:13:42 9.5 Ports and waterways
01:14:24 10 Education
01:16:16 11 Military
01:16:51 12 International relations
01:17:52 13 See also
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Harbin (Manchu: ᡥᠠᠯᠪᡳᠨ; Chinese: 哈尔滨 Hā'ěrbīn) is the capital of Heilongjiang province, and largest city in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties. Harbin is the eighth most populous Chinese city according to the 2010 census, the built-up area (which consists of all districts except Shuangcheng and Acheng) had 5,282,093 inhabitants, while the total population of the sub-provincial city was up to 10,635,971. Harbin serves as a key political, economic, scientific, cultural, and communications hub in Northeast China, as well as an important industrial base of the nation.Harbin, whose name was originally a Manchu word meaning a place for drying fishing nets, grew from a small rural settlement on the Songhua River to become one of the largest cities in Northeast China. Founded in 1898 with the coming of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the city first prospered as a region inhabited by an overwhelming majority of immigrants from the Russian Empire.Having the most bitterly cold winters among major Chinese cities, Harbin is heralded as the Ice City for its well-known winter tourism and recreations. Harbin is notable for its beautiful ice sculpture festival in the winter. Besides being well known for its historical Russian legacy, the city serves as an important gateway in Sino-Russian trade today. In the 1920s, the city was considered China's fashion capital since new designs from Paris and Moscow reached here first before arriving in Shanghai. The city was voted China Top Tourist City by the China National Tourism Administration in 2004.
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00:01:14 1 Greater HIT structure
00:02:36 2 History
00:10:57 3 Campuses
00:11:07 3.1 Harbin Campus (Main Campus)
00:12:38 3.2 Weihai Campus
00:14:37 3.3 Shenzhen Campus
00:15:37 4 Administration and organization
00:16:20 5 Academics
00:16:51 5.1 Rankings
00:20:22 6 Research
00:23:44 7 Notable people
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The Harbin Institute of Technology (simplified Chinese: 哈尔滨工业大学; traditional Chinese: 哈爾濱工業大學; pinyin: Hāěrbīn Gōngyè Dàxué, abbreviated as HIT or 哈工大; Hā GōngDà) is a research university and a member of China's elite C9 League. HIT is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University.
It has three campuses, spanning the country from north to south: the Harbin campus in Heilongjiang Province, the Weihai campus in Shandong Province and the Shenzhen campus in Guangdong Province.
HIT is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the country with a focus on science and engineering. HIT was ranked 6th in the Best Global Universities for Engineering by U.S. News in 2017. HIT is one of the only handful of universities in the world that have designed, built, and launched their own satellites (in 2004, 2008 and 2013).
Harbin, China Travel Guide (Winter Season Travel Tips and Suggestions) 哈尔滨旅游全攻略
This is my first travel vlog. This video is intended to help travelers to get some ideas regarding Harbin, China. This video talks about the history, weather, sights, tourist spots, transportation, and food of Harbin.
这是我的第一个vlog，这个视频是为了跟大家分享我的哈尔滨旅行经验。视频中包含哈尔滨的历史，天气，景点，交通，食物等。希望你能喜欢。
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Manchuria (simplified Chinese: 满洲; traditional Chinese: 滿洲; pinyin: Mǎnzhōu) is a name first used in the 17th century by Japanese people to refer to a large geographic region in Northeast Asia. Depending on the context, Manchuria can either refer to a region that falls entirely within the People's Republic of China or a larger region divided between China and Russia. Manchuria is widely used outside China to denote the geographical and historical region. This region is the traditional homeland of the Xianbei, Khitan, and Jurchen (later called Manchu 满族) peoples, who built several states within the area historically (however, no term for Manchuria exists in the Manchu language, which originally referred to the area as the Three Eastern Provinces; mnc. ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳᡳᠯᠠᠨᡤᠣᠯᠣ, Dergi ilan golo; zh. 東三省 / 东三省, Dōng Sānshěng).
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Manchukuo (traditional Chinese: 滿洲國; pinyin: Mǎnzhōuguó; Japanese: 満州国; rōmaji: Manshūkoku; State of Manchuria; in other Axis languages: Italian: Manciukuò and German: Mandschukuo) was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic, but in 1934 it became a constitutional monarchy. It had limited international recognition and was under the de facto control of Japan.
The area, collectively known as Manchuria, was the homeland of the Manchus, including the emperors of the Qing dynasty. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the Mukden Incident and a pro-Japanese government was installed one year later with Puyi, the last Qing emperor, as the nominal regent and later emperor. Manchukuo's government was dissolved in 1945 after the surrender of Imperial Japan at the end of World War II. The territories formally claimed by the puppet state were first seized in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, and then formally transferred to Chinese administration in the following year.Manchus formed a minority in Manchukuo, whose largest ethnic group were Han Chinese. The population of Koreans increased during the Manchukuo period, and there were also Japanese, Mongols, White Army Russians and other minorities. The Mongol regions of western Manchukuo were ruled under a slightly different system in acknowledgement of the Mongolian traditions there. The southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula was ruled by Japan as the Kwantung Leased Territory.
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Manchukuo (traditional Chinese: 滿洲國; pinyin: Mǎnzhōuguó; Japanese: 満州国; rōmaji: Manshūkoku; State of Manchuria; in other Axis languages: Italian: Manciukuò and German: Mandschukuo) was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic, but in 1934 it became a constitutional monarchy. It had limited international recognition and was under the de facto control of Japan.
The area, collectively known as Manchuria, was the homeland of the Manchus, including the emperors of the Qing dynasty. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the Mukden Incident and a pro-Japanese government was installed one year later with Puyi, the last Qing emperor, as the nominal regent and later emperor. Manchukuo's government was dissolved in 1945 after the surrender of Imperial Japan at the end of World War II. The territories formally claimed by the puppet state were first seized in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, and then formally transferred to Chinese administration in the following year.Manchus formed a minority in Manchukuo, whose largest ethnic group were Han Chinese. The population of Koreans increased during the Manchukuo period, and there were also Japanese, Mongols, White Army Russians and other minorities. The Mongol regions of western Manchukuo were ruled under a slightly different system in acknowledgement of the Mongolian traditions there. The southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula was ruled by Japan as the Kwantung Leased Territory.