
Strangers in a strange land: being foreign in China
Chinese Whispers
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Travel Writing - Can You Criticismize China Because You're Foreigner?
I was interested in what something that you mentioned earlier this idea that if you're foreigner you can't criticize China because you're looking from the outside in and I get this sometimes in my role as a Chinese ethnic person reporting on China. The play is called Chinese boxing it's using the story of the box uprising which took place in 1900 and was a very much an anti-foreign movement supported by the government at the time the Qing dynasty. Point of the show is to get people to understand this constant never-ending misunderstanding between China and the West and Britain especially.
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