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Hong Kong’s government on Friday scrapped plans to introduce controversial security legislation which sparked massive protests and triggered the territory’s worst political crisis since the 1997 handover.
Ms Zhang has been away from her Bankstown home in Australia on a world tour since
May 2001. She has exhibited in over 40 countries and well over 100 cities. Being
in Australia for just over one month, she has already begun her latest tour, exhibiting
her traditional Chinese paintings in different districts throughout New South
Wales.
As part of a NSW regional tour of Ms Zhang Cui Ying’s traditional Chinese paintings, the exhibition was successfully opened in Ingleburn by Campbelltown City Mayor.
The previously documented relics retrieved from the ruins of a Parthian city located in a suburb of the modern city of Baghdad include an ancient battery dated to 250-224 BC. But the city holds surprises greater than this – a more striking finding was reported recently.
China’s Jinling pagoda was built at a Nanjing city suburb around 1400 AD by Ming dynasty’s military advisor and famous scholar, Mr. Liu Ji (alias Liu Bowen). As the pagoda being torn down in early 20th century by order of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, this monument inscription was found.
Ever since the pre-Qin period, through the successive dynasties, Chinese thinkers have searched tirelessly for the eternal Great Tao that Confucius and Lao Zi praised so highly.
And this year I received a letter from the Chinese consulate, this time I was more outraged, I wrote them a letter back. I said, “I reviewed all of your materials and I found your materials to be childish.” And I said, “They were not persuasive, and indeed the more information I get the more it persuades me that your government is wrong.”
In China, family members concerned for the welfare of their loved ones might ask, “Why not just say ‘I will give up practicing’ and then go back home and practice secretly. I would like to share a little of my understanding regarding this issue.
ARTIST Zhang Cuiying is all too familiar with suppression so it’s hardly
surprising she found a ban on painting “like a death sentence”.
The Bankstown woman was imprisoned in China in 1999 for practising Falun
Dafa, a form of meditation.
Due to persistent rescue efforts from overseas Falun Dafa practitioners and others who uphold justice, Australian practitioner, Lisa Liang’s sister was “released for medical care” on the afternoon of August 23, 2003 at 2 p.m.
