Seven years after I first stepped off a plane in Shanghai, I was finally preparing to go home. During that time, I had experienced a lot. I had worked near the border of Burma, Siberia…
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Somehow, the students always found a way to make their writing political. What would you do if you had 24 hours left to live? I would bomb America and kill as many Americans as possible. What do you hope to be doing ten years in the future? Fighting in the army to liberate Taiwan. What are the main differences between Chinese people and foreigners? Foreigners are the bourgeoisie and the Chinese are the industrial proletariat. An innocuous writing assignment on trees turned into a violent anti-Japanese rant.
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Yet there definitely was a genuine hatred of America and Japan behind it. My students in Xinjiang would often choose political topics for their speaking competitions. Usually it was about how America wanted to keep China down and spread lies."
Gemoedstoestand van de Chinese tieners lijkt mij toch angstaanjagend.
We denken soms dat wij in het Westen te oorlogszuchtig of agressief zijn, maar ik heb toch niet de indruk dat er in onze scholen zo had gefocussed wordt op oorlog voeren en 'de vijand'.