Peking U Prof-Hong Kongers are "Dogs of British Imperialism"

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/24/chinese-professor-hong-kong-dogs


Chinese professor calls Hong Kong residents 'dogs of British imperialists'

Kong Qingdong of Peking University stirs up row with tirade against Hong Kong in webcast interview

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/1/24/1327399714658/Hong-Kong-skyline-007.jpg Only a third of Hong Kong's 7 million residents consider themselves Chinese, according to surveys. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

A professor at one of China (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china)'s most prestigious universities has stirred up a hornets' nest in Hong Kong after publicly calling residents of the territory "bastards", "thieves" and "dogs of British imperialists".
Kong Qingdong of Peking University launched the tirade during a webcast interview at the weekend that has tarnished the reputation of his employer and intensified an already fierce debate about relations between Hong Kong and the mainland.
Recent surveys suggest only a third of the 7 million people in the territory consider themselves Chinese though almost 15 years have passed since the handover from British rule.
The differences have been apparent in a series of seemingly trivial disputes that have sparked protests or gone viral on the internet.
The Italian luxury goods retailer Dolce and Gabbana was forced to apologise last week after security guards at one of its Hong Kong shops blocked locals who tried to take photographs, yet allowed mainlanders and foreigners to snap freely. This perceived discrimination in favour of wealthy mainland tourists prompted a protest by about 1,000 people.
It was followed soon after by a mobile phone video of Hong Kong commuters criticising mainlanders for eating and leaving crumbs on the subway. This case prompted a fierce online debate between those who accused mainland visitors of lacking manners and abusing their maternity system on one hand, and, on the other, those who attacked the snobbish attitude of Hong Kongers and exploitation of mainlanders as factory fodder.
For Kong – an ultra-nationalist who claims to be a descendant of the sage Confucius – such cases are unforgivable.
"To the best of my knowledge, many people in Hong Kong don't consider themselves to be Chinese. Those types of people are used to being the dogs of British imperialists – they are dogs, not humans," the professor of Chinese studies told the host of the news website v1.cn (http://www.v1.cn/).
He went on to accuse Hong Kong tour guides of cheating visitors and to insist that all Chinese people should speak Mandarin rather than local dialects such as Cantonese. The video (http://shanghaiist.com/2012/01/20/kong-qingdong-hk-bastards-dogs.php) has since circulated widely on the internet.
Coming from a professor at a university that educates many of China's top officials, these vitriolic comment stirred up a passionate response. On Sunday, several hundred demonstrators – many with their dogs – gathered outside the China Liaison Office in Hong Kong to express their anger. Some chanted that it was better to be a dog in Hong Kong than a human on the mainland, according to local media reports.
Peking University has yet to comment on the case. Kong, however, has since tried to distance himself from his comments by saying they have been taken out of context – though the video was apparently uncut and his vitriol unrelenting.
In a blogpost on Monday, Kong denied insulting all Hong Kongers.
"I know there are many nice people in Hong Kong, but many Hong Kong people are still dogs" he wrote.
It is not the first time that Kong has provoked controversy. He participated in the "Confucian peace prize" – set up as a rival to the Nobel – which gave its latest award to Vladimir Putin (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/15/vladimir-putin-wins-peace-prize?).
He has also denied North Korea had ever faced famine and said he would not be sad if journalists were lined up and shot.



Nationalist bigotry is just as ugly as any other type. What is pathetic is that one of China's elite universities employs someone with such a view of humanity and the world.

[Ocean Seal]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/24/chinese-professor-hong-kong-dogs

Nationalist bigotry is just as ugly as any other type. What is pathetic is that one of China's elite universities employs someone with such a view of humanity and the world.

A lot of professors have some particularly ugly viewpoints. I'm sure that there are many professors in Hong Kong who believe that they are better than the Chinese and a lot of resentment is felt on the side of the Chinese. So yeah the sentiment goes both ways.

[RedHal]

There's truth to HKers being "Dogs of British Imperialism" if you want to put it so bluntly. A privileged section of a colonized population will view themselves as superior to the rest of the population. Only with the recent emergence of a Chinese beourgious class, the HK locals are crying foul lol

Historically, Hkers viewed mainlanders as a bunch of uncivilized country bumpkins. Of course the vast majority of the Chinese population are still poor and are still heavily descriminated against.

This being from the British press, colonialism is innocent...

[Prometeo liberado]

Seems like beourgious mudslinging at each other, and the working chinese masses couldn't give a fuck.

[enver criticism]

in fact i have met kong qing dong several times.he is a self-righteous maoist supporting DPRK.he is also the 74 generation successor of Confucious,He regard himself as Lu Xun

[enver criticism]

some HKers are diffrent to HK people and working class

[Sendo]

There's truth to HKers being "Dogs of British Imperialism" if you want to put it so bluntly. A privileged section of a colonized population will view themselves as superior to the rest of the population. Only with the recent emergence of a Chinese bourgeois class, the HK locals are crying foul. LOL

Historically, HKers have viewed mainlanders as a bunch of uncivilized country bumpkins. Of course the vast majority of the Chinese population are still poor and are still heavily discriminated against.

This being from the British press, where colonialism is innocent...

Many Koreans from Busan are dogs of imperialism. Pretty much every older Christian or politician worth his salt has happily collaborated with the Japanese or collaborated with the Japanese but wishes their country was colonized by America or Britain in the 19th century.

A lot of young people and the working classes have been bought off by wildly disproportionate pork barrel spending. Korean mass transit, for example, is possibly the best in the world right now and mostly publicly owned, but every wave of highway/train/subway expansions has always favored the rich district of Gangnam, satellite suburb of Bundang, or the are around Busan in the Southeast. Poorer areas do get serviced, but much later, and in a relatively weaker amount.

Think of the Long Islanders who send their kids to public school. No need for private schools when you've blocked out poor people from living in the district. No need to impose heavy levies on the residents since the happy and well-adjusted and tutored children score high on tests and are rewarded with a new swimming pool ("No Child Left Behind").

The Peking professor has my support. Many HKers are complicit compradors or are damned fools who overlook the Opium Wars and the fact that Britain didn't grant elections at all in HK until the 11th hour (to make the PRC look evil by comparison).

[GoddessCleoLover]

I want to openly thank our Chinese comrade for pointing out this professor's biased viewpoint. One of RevLeft's best points is the fact that people from all over world post here.