User Comments - zhenlijiang

Posted on: Is China Scary?

yanjian, I'm dismayed to find that while I was writing this you put up that post (in your awkward Japanese insulting merasuk--why? merasuk doesn't read Japanese does she?). Very disappointing.

Well I've spoken for tvan without his permission so perhaps he will want to set me straight (= maybe I'm wrong and he will want to correct me).
But whether he meant that up there or not, what I told you about the word "fear" in English is true.

Actually that long post of yours has provoked a lot of comments in me but to be honest I haven't read it in entirety (my Chinese isn't good, I need dictionaries and a lot of time to read).

However, since you said "we should keep clear-headed, and not say something without thinking":
Saying things like "Koreans are always stealing our culture and trying to rewrite history" doesn't strike me as keeping clear-headed. I know that's a very popular view now in China, but ... the truth is often far from popular.

Let me tell you right now, we Japanese don't have an 爱国精神. Some Japanese may want to argue with me on this point but I'm speaking about now, in general. To us (and I don't know, Bodawei mentioned he's proud of his country but I would think in Australia it's the same, it shouldn't be something you have to say for it to be deep and true), loving your own country and culture is something you don't have to sing and declare all the time. Everyone, everywhere has that right and it should of course not be violated. We don't have the kind of 爱国 education that some countries like China do. Some people are now saying maybe we need to, grow a fang or two, instead of just remaining injured and silent in the face of insults and people who lay false claims on Japan and Japanese people.

That's all I have time for today, sorry.
Please apologize to merasuk and take back your remark. It's rude.

Posted on: Is China Scary?

Not that China was being "dissed" before, I'd like to add just to be absolutely clear.
Just that from any talk of the "Is China Scary" sort, you can confirm that other countries are now finding a new respect/regard for China.

Posted on: Is China Scary?

yanjian, just because someone doesn't agree with you on something that doesn't make them hostile to you. We're (mostly!) all friendly here, even myself.

When tvan says "If I were Chinese I would take other countries' 恐怖 to be a good thing", "恐怖" (fear) here means "respect". I don't know, maybe this doesn't work so well in Chinese like it does in English. He means China should understand from other countries' "wary attitude" that she is not "being dissed (disrespected, dismissed)" anymore.

In English fear also means respect, and respect also has this meaning of fear. For instance we talk of "God-fearing" people.

Again, apologies for not doing this in Chinese. Sorry if this hasn't made it any clearer.

Posted on: Is China Scary?

laojia1,

而是因为他们在犯了错误以后，从不肯承认自己所犯的错误

Yeah I've heard this exact same thing (almost to the word) so many times.  Simply not true.

And I'd also like to say:

1.  First, I know that reasons do exist for Chinese to hate Japanese, from WWII. I am not saying there are no grounds. However:
So many Chinese (educated people included) hate Japanese because you're coached and taught to practically from birth. You may not agree with this right now (and if you don't know any other approach, how could you help but think that's the norm?), but keep in mind, and keep thinking about this.
And do you also laojia1--I'm assuming you're Chinese--hate us Japanese? If so, how do you feel about your hate? What, in your opinion, needs to happen for this hate to be reduced? And do you Chinese people want that--or not?

2.  You need to understand your government deliberately keeps so much information from you the people.
Even we Japanese did not know until recently, and we were shocked to learn, just how far your government has gone to keep you misinformed. Many things you just are not told (often, from our view, precisely those things that would allow you to have a much more balanced sentiment toward Japan), even basic things. When Sino-Japanese relations were normalized in 1972 China agreed to waive war reparations (Mao Zedong had his reasons), and so Japan has been instead the largest ODA contributor to China thereafter (sorry, not sure exactly which year the ODA began). But many of you educated Chinese don't even know this. Just what else have you not been told, it causes us to wonder.

Just don't believe everything your government (this includes "information" through news and other media, books, television programming, and this may be harder for you to accept but we need to face this--the people you've looked up to in your childhood, your teachers in the classrooms) tells you. This goes for people in ALL countries including countries that supposedly are all about freedom--the US, Japan, Britain, France, Russia--wherever. Not just China.

Though some governments go much further than others in this respect, all governments are in the business of controlling information. That is what governments do. They are not in the business of being straight up with their people.

I apologize for not even attempting to write this in Chinese. I just don't have the time and energy right now, and if I let your statement go unanswered it will remain unchallenged because there isn't anybody else to say anything. But it's not right, even though I'm probably going to draw fire from all directions for this (and to be perfectly honest, not particularly looking forward to that).

I'm not angry at you okay, I'm just saying you need to know, that view is not unassailable like you think it is.

Really sorry. One day my Chinese should get good enough to write all this in Chinese.

(ah while I was writing this Henning posted the above, and said what is really the important point I wanted to make--and so much shorter and better. oh well.)

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annabanana88, 是 比尔盖茨。

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谢谢 皎洁老师，现在完全明白了！

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Matt, thank you for making clear that it was completely uncalled for.

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Jiaojie 老师，我在（日中）词典看到过的注释说‘居然’比‘竟然’语调稍强。也可以如此说吗？

Posted on: Farewell, Sweet Pete

Ow, this news is a blow for me! I know you'll be putting your talents to use doing interesting and worthwhile things wherever you are Pete, but I will miss your contributions here. Thank you for them. You were the first one to welcome me to the community when I came here so it's hard for me to imagine CPod without you. Wishing you all the best, hope you'll be back soon with PWP!

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今天在图书馆借到了一套少年读本《红楼梦》。希望能看懂哦！如果看不懂的话，从这套就转一本儿童读物《红楼梦》  (>_<)。　这本是“根据小学语文新课程标准编选”；我的阅读能力一定会足够吧 ...

* 对不起，上面写下来的中文肯定不正确。