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Perhaps a country’s ability to take a take a punch, shrug off perceived insults and face up to criticism squarely is one of the first signs that a nation had achieved maturity and its people their place at the table of great nations.Not yet China.Good fortune, and a marvellous relationship with the English books editor at Random House Kodansha in Tokyo was the reason ‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China:...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 57“The Chinese definition of literacy is the ability to read and write at least 1500 Chinese characters. In 1949, when ‘New China’ was founded, the illiteracy rate was more than 80%. By 1992, 22.3% of adults in China were illiterate. Ten years later, that proportion had dropped to 8.72%.While 8.72% seems relatively...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 55"Shanghai is remarkably safe. The Shanghainese are still the ‘special ones’ of China. They still get the added respect from criminal elements from other parts of China that affords them an additional layer of protection, something the folks in booming cities like Shenzhen across from Hong Kong no longer have. In...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 53“Cruelty to animals has a long history in China. ‘Rich people in ancient times used to put live ducks onto hot iron plates and the ducks end up dancing themselves to death. The diners then eat the meat on the ducks’ feet because it was said to be much more delicious than the meat of ducks cooked in the ordinary...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 51“Coming from countries like Canada and Britain, the authors have the ability to appreciate coming second or third, even the necessity of it. There is true glory in silver and bronze.Not if you are a citizen of China. Unless you achieve gold medal ranking, your accomplishments will disappear along with hundreds...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 49“China’s migrants have built the factories and office blocks that support the country’s rise to economic supremacy. They have built roads, rail, docks and airports that allow it to import and transport the millions of tons of raw ingredients it needs and export the billions of dollars of finished goods it produces....

Guest Post by Karl Lacroix1. Liu was the only athlete in the history of sports with 1.3 BILLION coaches. Everybody in China knew what Liu should do, but only he knew what he COULD do.2. Liu was and will forever be a ‘one hit’ athletic wonder. A lot of athletes are like that. He should have walked away after the world record was set. Chinese people were shocked that he, an Asian, had beaten the clock...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 47"The River Yangtze is the third longest on the planet. It is approximately 6,300 km long and accounts for more than a third of China’s total freshwater supplies. It discharges more than a million million cubic meters of water into the sea annually. A river so huge, it might be thought, would be almost impossible...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 45"Between the years 1978 and 2006 China allowed 1,067,000 of its young citizens to study abroad. More than 792,000 of those citizens never came home. They never returned to ‘the motherland,’ and have never returned to be Chinese. Three out of four of those more than one million minds, full of new information, education...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 43“China’s constant talk of a ‘peaceful rise’ and of ‘peaceful development’ is an attempt to create an image of a young and dynamic new economy. The astonishing growth of the country’s economy in recent years can make it appear like a strong economic youngster growing into powerful and confident world of developed...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 41"Any great nation needs to rely on creativity and innovation in order to leave its mark on history as well as to drive its economy. For China’s economic miracle to continue, it is imperative to re-discover its native sense of inventiveness, the same inventiveness that created China itself.However, the country’s...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 39Around 250,000 people kill themselves every year in China, according to statistics from China’s Ministry of Health. To put this another way – every two minutes of each hour, 24/7, eight Chinese people kill themselves. The figure of 250,000 is those whose deaths are reported as suicide. It does not include the suicide...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 37In China, the ‘kowtow’ has long been the traditional form of obeisance on meeting the emperor. The ceremony involves crouching on one’s hands and knees and knocking the head against the floor, and a full performance of the ritual requires the giver to fall to his knees three times, each time knocking his head to...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 35“Despite the signing of the 1972 ‘Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People’s Republic of China’ which normalized relations between the two countries, for China, the ‘Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression,’ as the China-Japan war of 1937 to 1945 is called...

‘Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 33“Mando-pop (Mandarin pop music) is characterized by softness. No hard edges are exposed where young people might cut themselves some independent thinking. No difficult subject matter interferes with the music from mesmerizing young minds.The typical male mando-pop star is a designed metrosexual. Reasonably good...