{"id":51064,"date":"2010-02-04T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=51064"},"modified":"2010-02-04T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:37:47","slug":"han-hans-speech-at-xiamen-university-the-so-called-grand-cultural-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/02\/han-hans-speech-at-xiamen-university-the-so-called-grand-cultural-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Han Han’s Speech At Xiamen University: “The So-called Grand Cultural Nation”"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Author, race-car driver and blogger Han Han’s most recent speech at Xiamen University, translated on the EastSouthWestNorth blog<\/a>: <\/p>\n This is my second time in Xiamen. The weather here is great. No wonder people like to go outside and stroll. Hmmm … I just heard Teacher Deng spoke about certain issues on nationalism. I was reminded of a couple of sayings which I came across them previously. They are other people’s words, not mine. The first saying is, “Nationalism is the last refuge of scoundrels.” The second saying is, “True patriotism is to protect this country so that it will not suffer any harm.”<\/p>\n For today’s talk, I have brought along a written speech in order to constrain myself. Mainly, I don’t want you to suffer any harm because I may stray all over the place. Let me begin.<\/p>\n Dear leaders, dear teachers, dear students, how are you doing? <\/p>\n Do you know why China cannot become a grand cultural nation? It is because most of the time when we speak, we say “Dear leaders” first and those leaders are uncultured. Not only that, for they are also afraid of culture, they censor culture and they control culture<\/a>. So how can such a nation become a grand cultural nation? Dear leaders, what do you say?<\/p>\n