Wow, TWS, I apologize for not commenting on those pics before...that looks like the same guy to me. Same lips, same eyes, similar hair length (long on nose and top, but small beard). I didn't see where you mentioned corresponding with the author of the article before? Did that happen a good while after you posted that?
I had corresponded with prof Dikotter way before i posted all of that on this thread. Actually i wasnt going to post it at all because i felt that i had proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lineage was fabricated and that i had done the right thing in leaving the school, for that reason and the other that is posted in this forum.
but after reading 40 some odd pages in to this very long thread, at the time, i decided to go on ahead and share with everyone what i had discovered.
When i corresponded with Prof Dikotter i had asked him to compare the two pictures because there was some question as to whether or not they were the same individual. i had stated to him that the suit and tie picture was being claimed in a martial arts lineage that has come in to question many times within the martial community(and left it at that). I mean i already KNEW that these two pics were the same i just needed some professional validation, since members here want that sort of validation from the rest of us concerning what IS CMA and what IS Shaolin etc etc.
But as you see in the posts after the denial and the downplaying of what i found flowed forth.
The second time i had emailed prof Dikotter i asked him that if the book that he got that other pic mentioned ANYTHING about Li baoshu being involved with any martial arts or shaolin temple or anything relating to south china. His response was that there was no mention of any such affiliation and that li baoshu was put on exhibit at the beijing zoo,no mention of being abandoned by his mother for being a demon and so on and so forth. I think he also mentioned that Li baoshu died at an early age as a result of the disease.
TWS.
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.