Back to 'Zhongguo'

On August 25th 2009 I will set out again back to the land of ‘Zhongguo’. A country that continues to fascinate me with its epic culture and histories as well as it's modern struggle against a globalized world. I have decided to start up this blog because of recent Chinese censorship laws which have chosen to ban popular Western sites such as Facebook; my former and preferred method of cyber communication. This ban follows the CCP’s constriction on it's already tightly controlled media, which is believed to be in retaliation to recent protests by Uighur minority groups in Xinjiang Province. These protests have followed unrest among the Uighur minority of Xinjiang who feel that the CCP's "Big development of the Northwest" strategies of the 1990s has widened a gap between the Autonomous Regions Uighur minority and the Han Chinese who only began to settle in the region after the 1950’s. Since the riots have elevated to levels unseen in the past two decades, the CCP has tightened it's grip around free speech so to project it's own message which argues the Xinjiang unrest is a result of fundamental Islamic terrorist organizations; who pose a threat to the greater world! It’s because of all this that I will not be able to use Facebook for the next six months, not even to simply tell you about my day or even upload pictures of the beautiful region of China's South West province Yunnan, where I will be staying to complete my tertiary Chinese language studies. I feel sad to leave my home town, with so many beautiful friends and family behind me; but I look forward to the adventures that wait for me in this beautiful and ethnically diverse part of the world. Love to all xxx