For American pundits, China isn’t a country. It’s a fantasyland. - The Washington Post

For American pundits, China isn’t a country. It’s a fantasyland. - The Washington Post China is so big and so diverse you can find just about whatever you are looking for  //  And when we treat China as a fantasyland of instruction for ourselves, we end up ignoring the Chinese. Like Voltaire’s mandarins or the happy peasants of Maoist propaganda, they cease to be real people and become perfect puppets deployed for rhetorical ends. The Chinese can be just as dumb, lazy and pig-headed as anyone else. They can also be just as smart, determined and empathic. They deserve better than to be reduced to examples.http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-american-pundits-china-isnt-a-country-its-a-fantasyland/2015/05/29/24ba60e0-0431-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html?postshare=7231432912710203&utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9876bd4919-Sinocism06_01_156_1_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-9876bd4919-29615013&mc_cid=9876bd4919&mc_eid=5935182a65