Here is a really excellent article about a movie that should be coming out soon in the US. Though the focus goes even deeper than just the movie and gives an in depth and, I feel, very accurate portrayal of an aspect of the Chinese psyche that has made relations with foreign nations more difficult. Also very respectfully written, check it out.
This article is very accurate to the situation, though I am not a big fan of its wording. Too often these "unbiased" articles use wording that make it seem as though the Chinese people are being forced to plow through unimaginably miserable conditions, alluding to the fact that it is the opposite to the US whose citizens eat candy everyday and have no worries, just love and freedom. I can just see so many people reading the article and thinking "The things we take for granted.." which drives me crazy. But the fact remains that as I had mentioned before, athletes don't get to see their families regularly while training, and then after seeing Phelps' mom in the stands approximately 174 times over the first week of the Olympics, I then would watch news highlights where CCTV would interview the parents of the gold medalists, none of whom were in Beijing viewing the games, and almost all of whom were obviously quite poor. What is interesting is that this is common knowledge around here and accepted as the way it is. The article also through talking about the farmers life mentions so many important things to life in rural China. The fact that Chen is not married at 30 is a huge deal around here. Not to mention the article does illustrates the huge gap between rich and poor in this country.
Both of these articles I stole from this blog, done by a professional with much more skill than me
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