Helen Liang was a young woman in her early 20’s living in Vancouver, Canada. Earlier she had graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Economics, and was working in a bank in Vancouver and was up for promotion. She was also a top-notch wushu (Chinese martial arts) expert, and the daughter of the famous wushu teacher Shou-Yu Liang, who was the coach of the Canadian National Wushu Team, which usually in international competitions came in only behind China. So Helen was looking forward to a bright future. Then suddenly she got sick, really sick. It turned out that she had lymphoma cancer. After undergoing a series of very painful chemotherapy and other treatments, the cancer quickly came back. Her oncologist told her and her family that it was terminal and she had only a few more weeks to live. The only thing they could do was to try a bone marrow transplant, but the success rate of that is less than five percent, even with the right marrow.
After suffering living several consecutive weeks in the hospital, instead of choosing the bone marrow transplant with less than five percent success rate that will require her to remain in the hospital, Helen decided to go home to spend her remaining time on earth with her loved ones. With the support of her parents and her family doctor who is a Western medicine doctor but had also learned Qigong with Helen’s father, Helen went home, and they decided to search for an alternative medical treatment. This article describes Helen’s experience of beating lymphoma with Qigong, Taiji [1], and alternative medical treatment, and is based on the article “Helen Liang’s Triumph over Tragedy, Battling Lymphoma with Qigong, Tai Chi and Chinese Medicine” in the website: http://www.shouyuliang.com/helen-liang-opening-and-closing-the-gates-of-heaven.shtml, written by Martha Burr which was the cover story of the July/August 2003 issue of “Kungfu/Qigong Magazine.“
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On the Issue of Human Rights in China
The question of human rights has always been, and especially in recent months, an issue in discussion about China and the U.S. On the surface, the issue may appear to be pretty straight forward, in the sense that China, in comparison with the U.S., significantly lags behind on the issue of human rights, and it is perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to lecture and pressure China to improve in the area of human rights as part of establishing a more friendly and collaborative effort between the U.S. and China. However, if one analyzes the situation more carefully, this issue is far from being so simple and straight forward. As a matter of fact, it actually leads to the conclusion that the U.S. is purposely and unfairly using this human rights stick to masquerade and justify its constant China bashing and divert the attention of the American people and the world from the U.S.’s own shortcomings, both domestically and internationally.
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