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Reading China's walls

by prudence on 01-Feb-2018
exhortation

Walls in China carry vast amounts of information... For a start, there are party exhortations. The above is just one example of many, many, many.

It means: "Seriously study the publicity and implementation of the spirit of the 19th National Congress. Open a new course for building an all-round socialist modern nation."

It took me quite a while to figure out the characters, and at the end of the day it's not that inspiring, but I was kind of happy that I could even do it.

The one below lists the "core socialist values", including prosperity, democracy, justice, patriotism, and dedication. These are absolutely everywhere, although the styles vary.

desirables

arches&lanterns

guangzhoublue

I saw very few of the famous Chinese dream poster, although the same type of ceramic children appear on this one, which rhymes out a celebration of China's prosperity:

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But you also get walls full of what seems like advice on how to be a model citizen:

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I wish I had enough Chinese to do a "great walls of China" project.