The ccp invaded Tibet in 1950, this American film from 1944

Grace Wang and Chinese "Nationalism"

April 19, 2008, 9:16 am

By Nicholas D. Kristof

Shaila Dewan of The Times had a fascinating article about Grace Wang, a Chinese student at Duke University who tried to encourage dialogue between pro-Tibet protesters and pro-China protesters. Grace is from China, and bloggers there perceived her as betraying her country and siding with Tibetan independence. The result was a nationalist explosion on the Chinese web, with people posting her parents' home address and comments that came across as threatening. Her parents abandoned their home for reasons of safety.

This is exactly the kind of story that makes those of us who like and admire China so uneasy about rising Chinese nationalism. It's the same feeling I had after 9/11 when I saw all the posts on Sina and Sohu BBS sites, expressing the feeling that it was so "cool" that Americans were dying in the twin towers. That broke my heart.

Granted, I'm sure many of those Internet users didn't mean what they wrote about 9/11, any more than they mean the threats against Grace Wang. People let off steam on the Internet. But this kind of Internet bullying seems more common in China — there have been many such cases — than in most other countries, and it has shades of the Cultural Revolution in it: The mob of crazed students clinging blindly to an ideology, denouncing a cosmopolitan intellectual as a "stinking No. 9″ and demanding that he or she repent to the crowd. This kind of nationalism is blinding, just as Maoism was in 1967, and it's not good for China or for the world. And those fiery nationalists are doing far more damage to China's image around the world than a million Grace Wangs could ever have done. I hope that more Chinese intellectuals will speak out against this nationalism, and that the Chinese ambassador to Washington might invite her to tea to show that the government disapproves of campaigns of hate.

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let's start debate - human rights, nationalism, patriorism, black-grey-white, acting, performance on the stage, convenience on getting green card, Wang hired a lawyer - she's tough now. 20 yrs old, a calculating young woman.

As for what the commentator and the NYTimes' reporter does not mention is, Grace Wang had talked to Free Radio Asia alreday ! An anti-China and CIA sponsored org. Surely she will get green card soon and gained the fame like that girl in NYC's ex-mayor's scandal.

However now many people in the world want to obtain Chinese green card, including many Chinese overseas who want going back China desperately !

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[DIEversity203]

International capitalism allied with international communism to defeat nationalism!

Chang Kei- Shek's adopted son was an officer in the Waffen-SS and the United States acted like they were for the nationalists in China....

[dilegentelectron]

@hsutung China is Tibet. Tibet is China. If you really wanna split China apart, we know what you are up to. 

[Andreas0705]

Where is the invasion of Tibet in this film? as for the headline - it´s misleading.

But funny to see the propaganda factor in it though

[wikct2]

Japan still not admit that the Japanese Imperial Army killed tens and thousands Chinese people during WWII.

[hsutung]

Free Tibet is world's value

[eastern2western]

the map was made according to the territory claims of nationalist government. if you look at the books of the prc(aka taiwan), its maps is exactly same as the video.

[khaiho95]

hahahahahahahaha 

[Liuyifeng19]

i wished sung yat ze died 20 years later if that happened china would be more powerfull and democratic

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@BlueHen123

Tibet is an INVADED and OCCUPIED country situated between the two ancient civilizations of China and India.

If you want a detailed analysis of why

Tibet did NOT become part of China during the Mongol Yuan Dynasty

and

Relations Between The Dalai Lamas of Tibet and the Manchu Qing Dynasty do not show that Tibet was Part Of China

go to

tibetjustice. org/reports/sovereignty/indepe­ndent/c/index.html (remove spaces)

[BlueHen123]

"In 1951, Tibetan representatives participated in negotiations in Beijing with the Chinese government. This resulted in a Seventeen Point Agreement which formalised China's sovereignty over Tibet"