Talk:Harry Wu

Merge

The Laogai Research Foundation and Harry Wu are inter-related. Statements from Laogai Research Foundation are statements from Harry Wu. It would be more appropriate to deal with the Laogai Research Foundation within the article on Harry Wu, especially as I don't think the Foundation has enough notability to stand alone. SilkTork *^YES! 18:22, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your concern! I see your point, but even prominent Wikipedia articles began as stubs; the article as of today, July 20, is nowhere near a complete record of LRF's history and current activities. The page certainly needs major work and additions, but in a purely objective sense, I don't think Laogai Research Foundation warrants a merge with Harry Wu. Before making judgments about notability, it should be remembered that a major portion--if not the majority--of the Foundation's activities are conducted and/or published in Chinese and thus do not appear in an English-language Google search. These activities are important and should certainly be noted in future edits, but many of them (prominent Chinese dissident Yu Jie's 2008 book 不要做中国人的孩子 on the one-child policy, which the LRF oversaw and published, for example) are not related to Wu himself and would not be appropriate as listed on Harry Wu. 70.108.248.208 (talk) 16:56, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

That's a fair point. Joefromrandb (talk) 03:05, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

childhood

wu describes his childhood with peace and pleasure. ha. even if i didnt think he was a liar before, this has got to be a joke. he was born in the middle of world war 2, with China being attacked left and right, and he describes this as peace and pleasure. so was he getting off on people getting blown up? or was he involved in some war profiteering? instead of being sent to labour education, he should have gotten executed instead. if he is so concerned about human rights, then why is he silent about western aggression in iraq, and afganistan? looks like his tail is begining to show. if he was somehow able to remove the usa from iraq, afganistan, and libya, then maybe he should be considered for some kind of peace prize, but until then, he looks like a trouble maker to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AFDS89YDSFY8 (talk • contribs) 12:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

• Well the real question is probably why isn't he concerned about the equivalent approach that has emerged in the U.S. through the labor reeducation camps of the privately-run prison system? You would think that if he was an intellectual of any capacity that he would show some empathy for those entrapped by the American gulag system. But none appears to be expressed. Maybe his problem is the same problem Ayn Rand had as a self-styled victim because of his (& her) disrupted childhood...But then again, that is his own limitation... Stevenmitchell (talk) 12:57, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

The key is in the first part of the article. He was clearly a noble of some sorts, and came from a rich as hell family with big lands. He could probably get whatever he wanted while others starved. And if trouble arose they'd just stay put in their huge mansion. Only when communists took over and took away his rich noble status and wealth, *then* did his hell begin. Bataaf van Oranje (talk) 20:41, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

References

Why aren't the references to this article more complete? In their current form they are essentially unusable... Does anyone know what they might be? Stevenmitchell (talk) 12:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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