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Western Ignorance: Failure to See China Beyond the Party
Mao Keji, a rising star among China’s new generation of scholars, gave an interview on China's Rise, Nationalism, and Western Misconceptions.
So even now, whenever I catch the scent of smog, it brings back those childhood memories: the dazzling displays [琳琅满目] in Hangzhou’s department stores, the taste of KFC and the vibrancy and prosperity of the big city [繁荣的大城市]. What was particularly ironic was that when I returned to Tsinghua University as an exchange student, many of my classmates had taken compulsory ideological and political courses like “The Theory and Practice of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” and “Introduction to Mao, Deng, the Three Represents and the Scientific Outlook on Development”. After this, even people with absolutely no awareness of international politics [对国际政治毫无知觉的人], like my parents, began to wake up to the reality that the US was prepared to resort to totally immoral behaviour, fabricate absurd excuses, and stage underhanded tactics to suppress China.
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