[asieaparis]
The Dragon parade starting from the main City Hall, then leading toward the 3rd district
Mayor's hall.
[G@ttoGiallo]
The Belleville community of the 11th district, welcomes the Year of the Dragon
on January 29/2012.
This Sunday, at the initiative of the collective of Asian associations in France,
several thousand people marched in Paris, from the place de la République
to the place de la Nation, to protest against violence and require more security.
Apparently, no concrete solution has been found or desired
since last year when, for the first time, the Chinese community
organized a demonstration to denounce the intolerable
situation which has lasted for fifteen years, asking authorities
to protect people from any aggressive behaviour and violence.
For some reasons, the protest had turned to ethnic clash...
because of subsequent aggression on a Chinese woman.
To understand the basis of this wrath that could jeopardize the art of 'living together' which
has long characterized a multicultural neighborhood of Paris like Belleville, I suggest you to
listen to this France-Culture podcast: 
- China from the edge: "Belleville, Chronicle of a Yellow Anger" - an audio documentary
by Alexander Héraud and Nathalie Salles about how and why all this first started on June 2010
and still hurts one year later.
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[Happy listening ... However, if you are familiar with French].
[Bertrand Langlois]
[.fr]
- The Chinese in Belleville alleged victims of 'fantasies'
- 'Fantasies' on the Chinese community
- The complexity of the Belleville Chinese community
- The origin of the motion remains in limbo.
- Une Manifestation de Chinois à Belleville... [AFP]
- Belleville et la Violence, [evous.fr]
- Manif Chinoise et presse poubelle [Réflets de Chine]
- Emeutes à Belleville... [Rue89]
- Les Chinois de Belleville... [Rue89]
- Belleville: des Vies sont en Jeu [leJDD]
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This movie was first released on Jan 21st 2010, and was banned 2 days later on all major
Chinese video websites.
DigiCha says : ... "Google’s recent moves in China have captured global attention about
censorship and Internet controls in China, eliciting protests from inside and outside China.
But there is a much more entertaining protest about China’s web controls circulating on the
Internet :
”网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction”. It is an hour long video, “shot” almost entirely with
in-game video from World of Warcraft, satirizing the government’s attempt to “harmonize”
China’s Internet with forced installations of “Green Dam Youth Escort” and the travails of
Chinese World of Warcraft players over the last several months.
It is quite brilliant".
(greatestyang)
This video contains a lot of Chinese history and pop culture references along with a lot
of internet meme only known to Chinese since this video is targeted at the Chinese
audience only.
If you wish to understand a bit more, you should read> more info...
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