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1. The German flag is interesting. The 1919 May 4th Movement, generally viewed to mark the beginning of the political upheaval that led to the rise of #CCP, was the reaction of Chinese intellectuals to the Versailles Treaty that stripped Germany of its treaty possessions and
2. gave them to Japan. The rejection rolled the US into the anti-imperialist fever more for US inaction rather than action. We failed to stop what the Chinese viewed as betrayal. Germany was revered in China as just and virtuous. Awarding German treaty concession to an adversary
3. like Japan was a grave insult.
My Chinese linguistic studies brought me to seek out origins of Chinese written language. German Catholic priests seemed to have been the people who did the major research that led to western texts that were still in use in the 1980s when
My Chinese linguistic studies brought me to seek out origins of Chinese written language. German Catholic priests seemed to have been the people who did the major research that led to western texts that were still in use in the 1980s when
4. I studied Chinese. Though my linguistic skills will no doubt be challenged by better scholars, I was struck with the fact that the Chinese written character for Germany is the noun for "virtue."
Germany: (Déguó) 德國. Virtuous Kingdom. 😎
#HongKongProtests
Germany: (Déguó) 德國. Virtuous Kingdom. 😎
#HongKongProtests
