Hi folks, welcome to China Translated (previously known as “Lost in Translation迷失南京”), where I provide you with a practical reading of the events that I think have a lasting impact beyond news cycles in China. #1 Piss and graffiti at Yasukuni by an old “friend” of us
Sometimes I wonder if the Yasukuni shrine receives the most visitors from curious Chinese travellers who have heard about this place their entire lives. I would imagine many Japanese visit this place once as schoolchildren and then only later if they are politicians.
This is almost like: in my hometown Nanjing, there is this tourist place where every tourist will visit: the Presidential Palace, China’s White House during Chiang’s KMT govt. I have never been there…
I think that we in the west don’t really grasp that the ccp is keeping a lid on virulent nationalism. It seems similar to how we in the west never grasped how much Saddam and the Baathist apparatus kept a lid on Sunni-Shia conflict in Iraq.
Can you delve more into the ccp-nationalism issue, when you have a chance?
Sometimes I wonder if the Yasukuni shrine receives the most visitors from curious Chinese travellers who have heard about this place their entire lives. I would imagine many Japanese visit this place once as schoolchildren and then only later if they are politicians.
This is almost like: in my hometown Nanjing, there is this tourist place where every tourist will visit: the Presidential Palace, China’s White House during Chiang’s KMT govt. I have never been there…
I've been there hahahaha. Nanjing is my favorite city in China (as a visitor)
I think that we in the west don’t really grasp that the ccp is keeping a lid on virulent nationalism. It seems similar to how we in the west never grasped how much Saddam and the Baathist apparatus kept a lid on Sunni-Shia conflict in Iraq.
Can you delve more into the ccp-nationalism issue, when you have a chance?
Highly complicated issue, I will see what I can do.