Hi. Sorry for promising a HSR post but never making one. The images are too big for lemmygrad and i’m going to wait until this (chinese government sponsored tour on their dime for chinese diaspora) summer camp is done and have access to my computer to post(might be a week or two tho).

Anyways we had some students join us from a local college on the summer camp and i ended up talking for a hour or two with someone about chinese and american politics(albeit my chinese needs some work LOL) and later found out they’re a member of the youth communist party(asked him right before he left). Very interesting to hear much of the concepts i’ve read about in conversation and hearing the chinese names of such.

I did in fact ask about the great leap forward, great proletarian cultural revolution, tiananmen square, hong kong protests and taiwan independence just out of curiosity. got pretty satisfactory answers.

Anyways just wanted to share and thought you guys might want update on my china trip.

oh this is kinda rambly but my god has it changed since like even 2018, the last time i went back. i know we definitely visited the nicer parts as the government def wants to put themselves in a good light but the parks all were a part of some 社会主义(socialism) effort and they were rlly rly nice. anyways ill make a post at end of trip w pictures.

sorry for unstructured rant LOL