Correspondence between Me and a comrade resides in mainland China (Spartan)

Dear Comrade:

I appreciate your concerns regarding current status-quo of the political system of China. I personally have at times felt incompetent and powerless, just like Cui Jian’s lyrics: “Reality is a rock, our spirit is an egg”. Any material realization of subversive element toward the current system is bound to get crushed with the utmost severity. As the newspaper here already manifested from time to time, dissidents in China are under constant surveillance, house-arrest, incommunicado, or downright incarceration, if not liquidation. Numerous religious practitioners from all branches of faith had faced difficult oppression, and many had already suffered harshly. Local and remote areas of peasants and rural folks had almost zero access toward justice when they’re being exploited by local officials and their henchmen. Thousands of riots each year had indicate an internal unrest boiling underneath the ostensibly grandiose prosperity.

As Mao had said himself regarding young adult of China: “the world is yours, and ours. But ultimately it will still be yours” He’s right in this respect and this is why we have to have a consensus among the general youth of our generation, and that is a common conviction of freedom. We can then proceed to devise a creed, then an organization, then a system, and so on. You and I today still have far more things to learn than to act, any premature outreaching venture is like the good old Chinese proverb had stated, “flying moth plunge into the fire”. There’re already thousands of martyr laid down their lives for the greater cause we all strive for. So keep your thinking-cap on, and I think we’ll need to practice a lot of patience at this juncture of our early adulthood, which is a good thing. And as your Christian belief has always sustain your will at times of difficulties or perplexity, always keep your faith.

Good Luck to you.

Da-Chu-Xing
Feb. 3rd 2006