The Sunshine of Humanity and Freedom on a White Paper:

Perhaps two sentences can be borrowed from inappropriate people to roughly express the main point of this article. In a word: "The revolution is a grand festival of the people" - this phrase comes from Lenin, the founder of the communist regime in the Soviet Union. Another quote comes from Mao Zedong, who said: "A blank piece of paper, no other burden, good to write the latest and most beautiful words, good to draw the latest and most beautiful pictures." To use the words of Lenin and Mao Zedong to describe the effect of China's "blank paper revolution" is certainly quite absurd and may be politically incorrect, but I don't like to talk nonsense, so I borrowed it. The true meaning of quoting these two sentences lies in my continued observation of the "blank paper protest" of the Chinese people to draw four views; Taken together, these views highlight the positive effect of this protest on the spiritual liberation and return of humanity to the Chinese people.

"None of them are men"? But there are thousands of good daughters!


My first observation concerns the role of women in China's social progress. The courage and demeanor of young women in this "white paper protest" is very remarkable. At the beginning of the protests, many people noticed this phenomenon, so there are some relevant interpretations: why them? There can be many different views on this, and what I want to emphasize here is only a basic historical fact and a social observation based on this fact. This historical fact is that women have always played a very important role in China's social progress, especially in modern times; From the May Fourth era, to the Republican Revolution, to the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, Gaimo was an exception. My relevant observation is that the emergence of the "2022 white paper revolution" is becoming a new starting point, highlighting this previously obscured fact.

The removal of this obscuration should, first and foremost, be related to changes in the means of communication and progress. The attention paid to the phenomenon of female leadership in the "white paper protest" is obviously because the scene of this protest is spread through the communication methods of today's text and images, and the prominent role of female protesters can be objectively presented through image communication, and it is less likely to be obscured by the deep gender bias and gender blind spots formed in the history dominated by patriarchy. Secondly, I am afraid that because the awareness of gender equality among the audience has increased in recent years, it is more or less possible to get rid of the gender blind spots formed over the years, and the identity of female protesters can be truthfully identified as women among the many protesters, rather than turning a blind eye or turning a blind eye.

In this way, it can be said that the "white paper protest" is making more people realize the prominent role and great contribution of women in promoting China's social progress, and may further make more people realize that women's bravery and firmness are not inferior to men and can completely surpass men, and their protection and pursuit of rights, freedoms and social justice can be more persistent and conscious. This should help to dissolve the demonization of the feminist movement that pervades Chinese society and increase public awareness and understanding of gender equality, which will be of far-reaching significance for China's long-term progress.

For the Chinese regime, I hope this will at least be a feminist lesson: Xi Jinping once quoted the old poem "No One is a Man" to summarize the lessons of the collapse of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the 20th Party Congress under his leadership produced a Politburo of the Communist Party of China in which "no one is a daughter." Now, he should have seen that even if "none of them are men", they can have thousands of good daughters, and they will stand up to promote China's progress!

White Paper and Yellow Umbrella Held Together, Han People and Communist Party Concern


Another observation is that I saw that the Chinese people, especially young people, who participated in the "white paper protest", began to understand the Hong Kong people's struggle since the "Umbrella Revolution". It is said that some of the participants in the "white paper protest" were once very sympathetic and even hostile to the Hong Kong people's struggle. According to Hong Kong, these people belong to the "blue silk" that stands on the side of the Chinese authorities, not the "yellow silk" that demands the rights of the people. The causes of this situation are complex and will not be analyzed here. However, when the mainland people also have to take to the streets to defend their minimum rights, they are in fact in fact in the same ranks as the Hong Kong people fighting for their rights.

A third observation is similar, which is that mutual sympathy between Han and Uyghur people is increasing during the "white paper protests." It should be said that the origin of this protest is Urumqi, Xinjiang, and it should be said that it is no accident. It was there that the "big prison" system, which had been established across China during the three-year pandemic, deprived people of minimal biological freedom, was built earlier for the Uyghur population. The "square cabin hospitals" in the hinterland, in terms of depriving residents of their freedom and cruelly treating every resident, are actually the mainland version of Xinjiang's so-called "education transformation centers", which are all "concentration camps". They are all people in the concentration camp, and they don't have to meet each other to know each other. In the previous article in this column, the observation of "empathy" was put forward on the "white paper revolution", and the two-way understanding of the dry port and the mutual sympathy of Hanwei that are beginning to emerge are further manifestations of this empathy.

Overseas is no longer the world of "little pinks", right?

The fourth observation extends overseas. Here, for the first time in decades, there have been political awakenings and protests among Chinese students demanding rights, pursuing freedom, and supporting the "white paper revolution" at home. In modern Chinese history, from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China to the end of the 20th century, international students and a wider group of overseas Chinese have been one of the vanguard forces promoting China's progress. In the past quarter century, overseas seems to have become the domain of the so-called "little pinks". Backed by the rise of China's material power, taking advantage of the pluralistic and tolerant environment of a free society, it was a common practice to go abroad to live but work "patrioticly". Now, it is the "white paper revolution" that is changing this ethos.

Why is there such a series of deep understandings, empathies and awakenings with the "white paper revolution"? Returning to Lenin's words at the beginning, but changing them, it can be said that revolution is the spiritual emancipation of the people. Based on these four observations alone, the "white paper movement" deserves to be called a "revolution" because it evokes meaningful changes in the depths of human nature. If these changes continue to ferment, solving the millennium problems such as gender equality and national reconciliation will not be a dream! Leaving aside the words of Mao Zedong quoted at the beginning, let me give an explanation: a blank piece of paper can reflect the sunshine of human nature and freedom!