In the wake of the Yushu earthquake, solidarity and love of country is palpable. (Although for implications of the quake on Han-Tibetan relations, see this conversation with Robert Barnett on the China Beat.)
Another pretext for patriotism – not that China needs it – is the opening of the Shanghai World Fair in nine days. This amateur calligrapher, from Shanghai, is in the middle (that’s a really lame pun, if you know the character ä¸) of writing ‘Love My China’ on the streets of Hohhot.
Now, is that a shorthand statement, or polite request?
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PS – also up at the China Beat is the twin of this photo.
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Thank you for this Charles – I should have cottoned on to that, somewhere over the course of my Tang poetry lessons.
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爱我ä¸å›½ means 我爱ä¸å›½; the first two characters are switched for poetic form (to emphasize the word love).
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Alec Ash
I studied Mandarin in Beijing, where I began writing this blog in the Olympic summer of 2008
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