Murder trial for wife of Chinese politician ends

Often, I think I know China well. However, just as often, it occurs to me that I don't really know what I thought I knew. The visions and experiences collected and stored in my mind while I am awake are gone after I have slept. Reasoning and understanding seem to last only for a few hours before becoming illusory: the images and meanings disappear one by one, stolen from me by apparitions and secreted away, never to be returned in their original form. The understandings that I have assiduously acquired are nothing more than banal when bound together to try and shape the oldest continuous civilization on earth. Experience, learning, and proudly possessed knowledge, gained from many sources and from interaction with its people, are taken from everyone who thinks they know China and passed on to others who share them smugly, use them with confidence, reverently broadcast them as Gospel for a few praiseworthy moments. "I know China." Then, time and circumstance mangle them until they are beyond comprehension. These ,too, will be passed on and shared as truth, only to be proved wrong again. The enigma is this: China never changes, but China always changes. Its people beset by burden, affected with melancholy, inured to bewilderment, and suckled on uninterrupted millennia of incalculable hopelessness and sorrow. "There is chaos under heaven and things could not be better", said Mao Zedong. This is the real truth: "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" - Charles De Gaulle. China: don't ask, it is what it is... ,,,,,,,,W.D. Box

08/09/2012

Murder trial for wife of Chinese politician ends

HEFEI, China (AP) — The secretive murder
trial of the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has ended after just one day.
There has been no immediate word on when a verdict will be delivered.

Gu Kailai and a household aide face charges
of murdering Neil Heywood, a British businessman who had close ties to the Bo
family.

The trial is being held the Hefei
Intermediate People's Court in eastern China. The accused are being
represented by government-appointed lawyers from Anhui province, of which Hefei is the capital.

The court's deputy director Tang Yigan said
the trial has ended but would not say when a verdict was expected.

Although two British diplomats were allowed
into the court under an agreement with China because of Heywood's nationality,
international media were not allowed in.

http://news.yahoo.com/murder-trial-wife-chinese-politician-ends-081930683.html

Aug 9, 2012 4:00:03 AM | Crime, Current Affairs

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