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It is already ten years after Hong Kong’s handover back to China. These few weeks I found there are heaps of articles reviewing how the “one country two systems” performs in the last decade. I also started to read more Mainland publishing after coming back from Oz. The more I expose to these mainland publishing, the newer picture that I perceive about China. They also gave me some inspiration and retraction about what Hong Kong did and what Hong Kong has to do. Of course it is such a big issue to have any answer or conclusion at all.

Like most of Hong Kongers and Westerners, I rather relied on the messages about China provided by a sound-bite driven media that seesaws between playing on our fears of China’s Communism, state repression and human rights abuses or so. However, things are changing dramatically and people from outside is damn difficult to get a better understanding about what is happening inside the dragon land. People just wind up with mainly superficial portraits of that part of China that’s most visible to the eye and to the camera.

Having more exposure to the mainland media gives me a different understanding about what is happening. For no doubt the media censorship still exist, but seeing something that release under such strict censorship has sorts of implication. I just read an article in a mainstream Chinese magazine which is about the Democratic Party in Hong Kong. The article is very positive to comment on the Party and saying that the Central government should do something to engage the Democrats more. Currently, most democrats do not have the passport to go to the Mainland China. I am so amazed when I read this article. The point of view in the article is nothing new, but having such article in the mainland media does imply a lot and this is the point that makes me so surprised. Things are really changing and I couldn’t see such change reflect in any of the Hong Kong or foreign mass media.

I remembered I read an article and it said that “we maybe have a better shot figuring out the future of India– or even Mars – than China…… something as generic as a Big Mac can mean very different things depending on the context."

I have a very strong feeling we do need someone/something that can bring us illumination about China without blinding us with sensationalist stereotype or pre-set values. Though understanding Chinais going to remain irritatingly difficult.

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