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奥运会 – Olympic Games – A view from China « Stumbling on melons

 奥运会 – Olympic Games – A view from China « Stumbling on melons is a must read.

Thanks, Marcellous.

Written by Neil

August 27, 2008 at 9:54 am

Posted in Chinese and China, Marcel, Olympics 2008, other blogs

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  1. Thanks for your thanks. It would be interesting to learn M’s reactions on this score, and particularly this passage (see the whole song here):

    “The lyrics in the Hymn to the Country cannot be more true: Praise to our country, from today she goes strong and prosperous … through so much hardships we finally won our liberty.”

    It seems to me that the liberty proclaimed here is the liberty of the group from oppression by other groups (feudal, counter-revolutionary and imperialist) rather than the western professed ideal of individual liberty. Of course, the song takes as a given that the people’s revolutionary party cannot and does not oppress the people.

    marcellous

    August 27, 2008 at 8:13 pm


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