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Gongqing
I came across a good source on Gongqing while doing some research on Hu Yaobang, and I noticed that you have a long-term interest in that city, which is really cool. Which school did you teach at? Are you a local Chinese person, or a foreigner? Was Hu's mausoleum as cool as it sounds? Did you eet any of the original settlers there; and, if so, did they talk about how things were, back in the day? Let me know, eh?Ferox Seneca (talk) 08:10, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry that I find the inner workings of Wikipedia confusing to me. This is the only way I know to respond to you.  I wouldn't mind you to telling me a better way.


 * For four years I taught at Gong Qing College, Nanchang University, leaving in January 2011. I am American. I received a Jiangxi Province award, Lu Shan Award, for helping the Chinese people and was designated Person of the Year 2007 by my college/university.


 * Hu Yaobang's Mausoleum is in a beautiful tasteful arranged ground with the tomb being placed at the top of a hill but visible as soon as you walk in the enclosure. Your reference at one point calls it a building but it is a large carved stone with Hu's facial image on it. A special day to visit this site would be on Tomb Sweeping Day where you might see his widow there.  It has a very special feel to it.


 * There is a stone with an inscription on it with Hu Yaobang's words on the campus of Gong Qing College.


 * One time I met an original settler but really not much was said as my Chinese is almost non existant. The 50th anniversary of the founding of the city of Gong Qing Cheng was held in its new indoor stadium which I attended.


 * Your source mentions the city having a stadium. Does it mean the indoor one?  If there is an amusement park I do not know about it.  The rate of growth and change is amazing so Gong Qing Cheng probably has something new that has not been talked about.


 * Hope this was of some help.


 * Rlc19808


 * Replying on your talk page,as you have done, is probably the most appropriate way to respond to questions posted on your talk page. It's common procedure to sign talk posts with four tildes ( ~ ). Apparently, there is a large, mezzanine bureaucracy operating deep within the bowels of Wikipedia, keeping the streets clean and the riffraff out.  I, myself, don't plan to learn more than I need to in order to write good articles.


 * Winning awards issued by the Chinese government is cool! Why did you leave Gongqing after so long, and what have you been doing since you left? In a city of less than 200,000, people, I assume that the writer of my source interprets the terms "stadium" and "amusement park" fairly liberally. Were you there for the 2004 Gongqing riots that the article describes?Ferox Seneca (talk) 02:12, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

I reached retirement age. Otherwise I would have loved to stay a few more years. As to the riots I was awakened in the middle of the night by the noise of excited humans and broken glass by the one at Gong Qing College. I visited the other college, now closed by the government, and was told abouts riot by some of its students. It circulated around its library which was being used as a dormitory.

Most of what I contribute I can not put a reference to because there is little written material but a wealth of personal oral stories.