I am a US citizen, grew up in the US and Taiwan, and attended Chinese-language high school in Taipei Jianguo Zhongxue, which has a reputation as Taipei's leading high school. I am bilingual in Chinese and read, write and speak Chinese (traditional and simplified) natively, and translate from Chinese into English. Previously, I worked in advertising (Ogilvy & Mather) and then first-generation Internet startups (Sina.com and chinadotcom) and worked in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Taipei. I have lived in Taiwan, PRC and Hong Kong for more than 20 years. You may have heard of Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Chiang Kai-shek and some of the KMT government leaders which retreated from the mainland to Taiwan in 1949. My parents knew them. Also knew some who became Communists and stayed in the PRC; I met them years later.

My father got his Ph.D from the University of Washington from Li Fang-guei, who was very well-known at the time in the early 60s. The Chinese department there was lead by Karl Wittfogel, who was one of the founders of the German Communist Party, then studied in China studying Chinese, and became staunchly anti-communist. He was a dominant force in the US understanding of China and Chinese studies until the 1970s.

Older people in the community know me. Do you see that photo of the burning building referenced by Bill Bishop? I was in Hong Kong at the time, and Twitter had not yet been banned in China. so Bill and I were tweeting about it back and forth. If you don't believe me you can go back and check the Twitter logs on that date.

Sorry, but you picked the wrong fight. I know what I'm talking about, and you don't. This is because you have no roots and are stuck in presentism. History is like a flowing river, not isolated events in time.