Luke Gedeon

We only have a few more days to find bloggers who will post about Caring for China. If your post is not in by Saturday the 6th, it will still be appreciated, but it will not help us to win the Zemanta Blog for a Cause corporate donation.
I have been looking around, but I have [...]

Well, it has been a China week. Today is no exception.
Oh, don’t forget! You have less than a week left to post about C4C. If you have not posted yet, Click here now!
Ryan of Lost Laowai shared another site featuring a toddler, also named Ryan, teaching Chinese. I included one of the videos here and [...]

I mentioned earlier this week that I would tell you a little more about Xu Wenli. You can easily find a lot of information online, but I think I might consolidate some of it together in another post. For now, I have a timeline that he prepared.
Also if you have any specific questions about Xu [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned that I was interested in Caring for China because I wanted to help the nation become a better place for the people of China. That is partly because I have many friends from China and want to help them, but it is also because I have been interested in East Asia since [...]

That government is best which governs least.
  – Thomas Paine
At Caring for China, the organization I work for, we talk a lot about political change in China. When I post a little more on Xu Wenli, the founder of C4C, and his history latter this week, you will understand why. The strange thing about that, though, is [...]

Gina Russo of Frog in the Well shared several political cartons from a 1950’s copy of the People’s Daily, the Chinese newspaper. I thought this one was quite interesting.

“2 advertisements, 1 boss.” From 人民日报， October 22nd, 1956. The signs read “Please choose the Republican party” and “Please choose the Democratic party” respectively.

Yesterday, I covered some of the benefits of repetition. Today let’s apply that to a topic near and dear to my heart, and hopefully to your’s too.
So why am I even talking about this?

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Well, on the web, it is easy to tell whether something has already been written. Go to your favorite search [...]

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A little over a week ago I asked you to, Please Donate A Blog Post to C4C .
That post left a lot of questions unanswered. I decided to bring all the questions together in one place and try to answer a few of them.
Q. How much money are you trying to get me [...]

Chiang Kai-shek is one of those characters from history that I always meant to read more about, but never took the time to look up. Luckily, he found me. Here is a bit of his history from Laura Tyson Li’s review of  “The Generalissimo” by Jay Taylor.
Born the son of a village salt [...]

Caring for China (the non-profit I work for, if you haven’t figured that out already) has it’s own twitter account. Members of C4C will be posting news about China, discussions of Chinese political issues, and anything else to do with Caring for China.
If you are interested in:

China
The People of China
International Relations
Human Rights
Chinese language, culture, history
Democracy
Political [...]

Caring for China (C4C) is a growing non-profit organization with a dream to change the world… or at least a piece of it. Like any other non-profit, we are dependent on donations from people like you, but…
Here is a chance to give to a great cause without it costing you a penny!
All we need is [...]

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To maintain balance and a successful society we should try to keep as many of the following types of organizations independent from each-other as possible:

Legislative bodies – keep laws as local as is practical.
Judicial systems – local precedent preferred unless parties are non-local in which case the decision should only set precedent at [...]

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This is a continuation of yesterday’s topic. Turns out, this is a bigger topic than I thought. It is going to take at least one more post to cover it. Don’t be shy about joining the conversation. I know most of you disagree with me. Go ahead and say so. You will have [...]

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If not properly balanced the world will tip over and flip upside-down, figuratively speaking of course. But, balance really does exist at the very core and essence of nearly everything in life.
An example from the real world.
A natural ecosystem relies heavily on a very delicate balance. It is quite amazing that it works, [...]

This is a second draft. I went back in to make a few small changes and ended up with a rewrite. Thus a separate post. If you have any comments on content, grammar, or whatever, I would love to hear from you. You can comment on this post, or if you would like your comments [...]

This video only has one section with English sub-titles, but the pictures say a lot.
June 4th, often written as 64 in China, is a very import date in Chinese history. The mothers of those who died that day are asking us to help keep the memory of this day alive. Very few people in China [...]

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In America, we tend to group all of Europe, North America, Australia, and any other developed nations into a group we call America, or the US. And when we talk about the United States of America or even our state/region, we often call it “the world” for short.
I guess you could say that [...]

This is a draft. If you have any comments on content, grammar, or whatever, I would love to hear from you. You can comment on this post, or if you would like your comments to remain private, you can use the contact form.
Call to Action
China is quickly and peacefully becoming a modern, capitalist democracy. Well, [...]

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You can always count on the Brits to laugh at their little brother, the US.
To be fair, America has done plenty of humorous things lately. Obama has set out to bridge the “small rift” between polar opposites by proving that Republicans do not have a monopoly on political silliness and foot-in-mouth [...]

If I can get this to publish correctly, I have a 70 minute documentary on Beijing’s preparations for the 2008 Olympics.

I would love to hear you thoughts on this in comments or any other mode of your choosing.