Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Fool’s Mountain, An Open Forum on Chinese Issues

by BI Yantao, China

Based in California, USA, Fool’s Mountain is co-founded by a group of writers focusing on Chinese issues. It regularly publishes English articles and essays targeting both the Western and Chinese audience. To my appreciation, Fool’s Mountain claims to be “completely unaffiliated with any government, political party, or movement”. Noteworthily, its tagline “A wise one knows moving mountains is beyond human power, but a fool has other thoughts” is thought-provoking.

Another important reason why I like Fool’s Mountain is that the atmosphere inside the forum is fundamentally friendly, even when people are disagreeing with one another, which reveals that the debaters are well-educated and respectable.