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With his slight frame and unassuming expression, Kang Lingyi, 24, hardly looks like a firebrand. But the Internet executive is at the forefront of one of the most powerful movements in China today: nationalism. Kang got his first taste of patriotic power back in 1999, when NATO forces bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Incensed by what he and other Chinese considered to be a deliberate attack, Kang joined 20,000 Chinese hackers who broke into several U.S. government websites, including that of the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Kang now runs one of several dozen patriotic websites, and he gets...
...Kang's feelings suit Beijing. Since the democracy movement exposed fissures in Chinese society 16 years ago, the government has tried to supplement a fading communist ideology with nationalism through a concerted education and media campaign. The two biggest protests in China since 1989 have been patriotic demonstrations essentially endorsed by the government--one an anti-American conflagration after the Belgrade bombing, the other a series of anti-Japanese protests in April that erupted in several Chinese cities. The latest demonstrations were spurred by nationalist websites and cell-phone text-message campaigns that persuaded tens of thousands to march against...
...nationalism is particularly pervasive among Chinese urban youth. Even as they sip Starbucks lattes or line up at the U.S. embassy for student visas, theybridle at what they view as an attempt by the rest of the world to suppress a budding superpower. "America wants to keep China down," Kang says. "We should all be friends. But America must accept China as a friend on an equal footing." --By Hannah Beech/Beijing...
...North and is willing to "recognize and respect us as a partner." But U.S. President George W. Bush has stated in the past that he "loathes" Kim, and he risked angering the Dear Leader again last week by hosting a politically sensitive guest at the White House: Kang Chol Hwan, author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang, a first-person account of growing up inside one of North Korea's brutal prison camps...
...Bush was given a copy of Kang's memoir by Henry Kissinger, and according to White House aides, he was so moved by it that he has since pushed several of his senior foreign-policy advisers to read it. First published in English in 2001, Aquariums is a coming-of-age tale of almost unimaginable misery. Kang, now a 36-year-old journalist and human-rights activist in Seoul, was incarcerated at age 9 after his wealthy grandfather ran afoul of the regime; in 1977 the family was thrown into Yodok, an isolated work camp for political prisoners, and Kang...