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<p>If you are into current fiction and film from China, or also if you follow other news, you will have encountered the petition office in Beijing, maybe also those of other cities. "I am not Madame Bovary", the new film based on the novel 我不是潘金莲 by Liu Zhenyun, is about a particular petition. A few days ago, I met representatives from the Beijing office and a few scholars of labor conflicts in China. There was a small symposium at the University of Vienna, convened by the law faculty and the East Asian studies institute. Some presentations were about "deliberative democracy", 协商民主. It seems to be an important recent development. I am not into labor studies per se, but I translate current poetry, and especially the poetry of migrant workers is certainly very directly related to labor conditions. And this symposium in Vienna was on the day when Austrian news were about another impending general election this year, after the protracted presidential elections last year. So I thought of the following poem. You can also find it <a href="https://banianerguotoukeyihe.com/2017/05/16/deliberate-democracy/">on my blog</a> together with another note.</p>
<p>Martin Winter</p>
<p><strong>DELIBERATE DEMOCRACY</strong></p>
<p>everyone wants deliberation<br />
what do workers want<br />
more money<br />
more rights<br />
less accidents<br />
less insecurity<br />
less misery<br />
less discrimination<br />
what do employers<br />
and state agents want<br />
nothing<br />
in comparison<br />
they have everything<br />
only in certain cases<br />
certain uncertain cases<br />
they are very certain<br />
everyone needs deliberation<br />
rather than killing and maiming<br />
each other<br />
china has talked about democracy<br />
very much<br />
at least since 1919<br />
austria too<br />
so let us deliberate<br />
how to give workers<br />
in certain uncertain cases<br />
maybe just a little bit<br />
of deliberation</p>
<p>MW May 2017</p>
<p>Martin Winter <<a href="mailto:dujuan99@gmail.com">dujuan99@gmail.com</a>></p>
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