I think it is as stupid as those videos posted by those anti China scaremongers.
I wonder if something like this could count as news that is breaking given that this could have some scary implications
I think it is as stupid as those videos posted by those anti China scaremongers.
I wonder if something like this could count as news that is breaking given that this could have some scary implications
Hmmm, you could be right but then again I do believe something bad is going to happen during the election. Though you don't need that video to tell you that I guess. But then anything can happenI think it is as stupid as those videos posted by those anti China scaremongers.
It said the Chinese authorities demanded that certain words, including “Genghis Khan,” “Empire” and “Mongol” be taken out of the show. Subsequently they asked for power over exhibition brochures, legends and maps.
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The exhibit was planned in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, . But tensions arose, the Nantes museum said, when the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage pressured the museum for changes to the original plan, “including notably elements of biased rewriting of Mongol culture in favour of a new national narrative”.
Anyone hear a fly pass by ?
I highly doubt the truthfulness of the piece, after all, from the Hong Kong fiasco, we already know how biased and unreliable Western reporting is. That Genghis Khan was a Mongol who amassed a massive empire is not refuted in China. Chinese people are taught that the man's name is Genghis Khan, he was a northern Mongol race and he conquered many territories creating a massive Eurasian empire. It makes no sense what this article is saying; you cannot discuss Genghis Khan without the words Genghis Khan, Mongol, and Empire. What are they supposed to call him, Super Horse Man? If they were doing an exhibit on the history of China and the Chinese side said they would not participate if the Tiananmen Massacre was discussed, I could believe it but this isn't even believable. This sounds like there were some disagreements between the French and Chinese historians and the French decided to just do a slander piece as they slam the door behind themselves because they cannot have it their way, and they knew that all naïve Westerners will believe their story hook line and sinker without even a logic check. I haven't heard anything from the Chinese side telling what really happened.
I suppose this is an example of why opinions of China have dropped in some countries. This sort of thing is just not understandable to most people in Europe, the Americas, etc. Like, fine, if you want to forceably integrate ethnic Mongols living in China into modern society - whatever. But why the need to portray Genghis Khan as "Chinese" as opposed to the external Mongol invader that he was in exhibits outside of China? Just because he took on Chinese robes to try to legitimise his rule doesn't change the fact he most definitely wasn't Chinese (he was seen as an invader at the time, after all).
Is it some issue of face, that China/the CCP doesn't like to be reminded it was ever conquered and ruled by an external party? Or that there's a fear that letting the historical reality of Khan remain will encourage Mongolians to see themselves as being distinct from Han people?
It's like the recent nonsense over Chinese netizens and the Global Times throwing a tantrum over that K-pop group noting the sacrifice of Koreans and Americans in the Korean War. Why did that even trigger them?
I suppose this is an example of why opinions of China have dropped in some countries. This sort of thing is just not understandable to most people in Europe, the Americas, etc. Like, fine, if you want to forceably integrate ethnic Mongols living in China into modern society - whatever. But why the need to portray Genghis Khan as "Chinese" as opposed to the external Mongol invader that he was in exhibits outside of China? Just because he took on Chinese robes to try to legitimise his rule doesn't change the fact he most definitely wasn't Chinese (he was seen as an invader at the time, after all).
Is it some issue of face, that China/the CCP doesn't like to be reminded it was ever conquered and ruled by an external party? Or that there's a fear that letting the historical reality of Khan remain will encourage Mongolians to see themselves as being distinct from Han people?
It's like the recent nonsense over Chinese netizens and the Global Times throwing a tantrum over that K-pop group noting the sacrifice of Koreans and Americans in the Korean War. Why did that even trigger them?