Lian Gong Shi Ba Fa or Lian Gong 18 Form (練功十八法) is a comprehensive system of Chinese health exercises. It is a set of stretching, breathing, and self-massaging exercises designed to prevent and relieve stress and acute pains around the neck, shoulders, back, hips, legs, joints, and connective tissues. Even though it is relatively new […]
Archive for February 2011
View from the Balcony: Tale of Two Cultures and Two Countries – Part III
February 2011
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When my parents and their five children first moved from Canton, China to Hong Kong in mid 1949, we moved into a second floor of an old, two-story house that was rented by my second maternal uncle whose family had been living in Hong Kong for some time. There were many people living in this […]
Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Distortions of WWII History
More than 65 years have passed since the end of WWII. Massive inhuman atrocities were committed by the Japanese military in many countries in Asia during WWII. Because most people, especially people who do not have relatives who lived through that part of history, have no knowledge of what actually occurred, it is very easy […]