Bosco may, as his website has it, have been a "roustabout on off-shore drilling rigs," a "cab driver and 'radical poet' in New York City," a bar manager, a car salesman, and ultimately a "totally freelance" author and journalist. He may be remembered by the millions who watched the O. J. Simpson trial as "the guy on the witness stand with this ugly, tortuous brace around his neck and up the backside of his head" (due to the swimming pool incident). But now he breathes a more rarefied air. He is a "Visiting Professor of Media & Foreign Policy" at an "elite" university — and he is treated with "professionalism, warmth and kindness" by "a fine group of dedicated Chinese educators" and administrators who "reward and appreciate good teachers" (like himself).
Bosco has also acquired some strong opinions on Chinese politics — in particular, on what the Chinese Communist Party thinks about Taiwan, and what they would be sure to do if Taiwan were to declare independence. So it was quite provoking for him when his web surfing recently brought him to an article on the subject by one Daniel McCarthy which contained "major fallacies" — though the article had apparently been published nowhere but on a web "blogzine" (network of participating blogs).
Responding to McCarthy's contention that China would not attack Taiwan, Bosco wrote:
Come to Mainland China and talk to the people, Mr. McCarthy.... 99% of my students, some of the most elite and best-educated of China's young adults swear with palpable commitment that they would "swim across the Straits with only a knife in [their] teethe to keep [their] countrymen from deserting the motherland." That is not hyperbole, it is a direct quote which was endorsed by virtually every student I taught at three prestigious Chinese Universities over the past two years.
Ah, the unanimity of the "elite" students! I have had occasion to marvel at it as well. They'd all believe one thing. And the next day, they'd all believe the opposite. I saw it myself, at the self-same "elite" university where Bosco is enjoying "professionalism, warmth and kindness."
For, as it happens, I taught at the same institution, the year before Bosco.
Bosco's irksome fellow blogger, commenting on Bosco's assertions about Chinese government reactions to hypothetical events, had asked: "Why trust the word of university students as to what will happen? They are about as involved in policy formation as I am. Isn't that like interviewing taxis drivers?"
Bosco retorted on the fellow's blog:
Oh, I don't "interview" my students; and if you paid attention to details as you normally do, you would know that my students are not just "students," they are handpicked to go into government service by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and spend four years immersed in world politics with many of the world's leaders and shakers coming to the China Foreign Affairs University to lecture them on many different world views....
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
that was one hell of a tale Uriel, thanks. Your relationship with Bosco reminds me a bit of my dealings with Andrew Sullivan a few years ago.
2 - Angelina Fiorentino
I would personally like to thank Joe Bosco for writing the fascinating book A Problem Of Evidence. I am glad someone had the balls to straight out say the truth about the Brown Family. (The Family Brown Ch. 12) I feel so sorry for Nicole Brown Simpson having been sold out by her family for OJ's money. And then they have the nerve, ESPECIALLY Denise Brown, to start a charity, that has been underfire by the IRS, under their murdered sister's name. Now she's the big DV expert? Denise Brown is the biggest phoney!
I have followed this case since the day I heard about the murders, I saw Denise Brown mouthing off to every tv show and the family selling Nicole's Diary, Nude Pictures (sold by sister Dominique), everything of Nicole's for In My Opinion, blood money!