Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:03:10 PM | (age group: 35–49) | M
This does bring up an interesting facet of how we view China (or any other conurty, for that matter though I find China to be a particularly interesting case). In the West, we can easily say we love our conurty (the US, for example) while not particularly liking the government or the party in power and there is a clear distinction between the two. In China, that distinction is not so clear and saying that we don't love China today while the speaker may mean the Chinese government, it is often taken as an affront to the entire Chinese nation. This is due in large part to the efforts of the Party which have worked very hard (and to obvious success) to ensure that Party = China in the minds