WHY II

TO THE CHINESE WOMEN IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:

I think you must make your men practice having nurturing feelings. They should value life as we, women, always do and to be caring and sensitive to the plight of others.

True you have a long history of being superior in terms of medicine, of culture, of arms as the gunpowder was discovered by the Taoists in your country and many more.

However, whatever high achievements you have had they should be coupled by magnanimity of heart and mind. Life is too short  to be spent in exterminating your enemies all the time.

Human beings are equipped with mental and intellectual faculties so that we may use them in dealing with the world, not in abolishing it and its residents.

You know, while I was attending a music conference somewhere in Asia, I met two Chinese musicians from your country, the PRC, and they sadly narrated to me what the Cultural Revolution had done to them - they were labelled reactionaries for playing European classical music and were told to spend time in the rural areas among the farmers.

They looked very sad when they were telling us that story; how they had felt so weak in the face of State Terrorism.

I don't remember if they could play any music they want to, then as it was 1989 and your country had been under a new dispensation.


But you know my Chinese women friends, I don't feel different from you at all.