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<p>Source: China Digital Times (1/21/16)<br />
<a href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/01/slight-of-the-week-hurt-feelings-of-chinese-people/">Slight of the Week: Hurt Feelings of Chinese People</a><br />
Posted by Anne Henochowicz</p>
<p><em>The <a title="Posts tagged with word of the week" href="https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/word-of-the-week/" rel="tag">Word of the Week</a> comes from the <a href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/">Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon</a>, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens or encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.</em></p>
<h3>shānghài Zhōngguórén de gǎnqíng 伤害中国人民的感情</h3>
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<p>Invocation used by Chinese authorities when another country, organization, or individual offends Party officials. Also heard in Swedish activist <a class="external text" href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/01/190124/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Peter Dahlin’s televised confession</a> in January 2016, which colleagues said appeared to be coerced.</p>
<p>Meeting with the Dalai Lama is a classic way to “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.” After <a class="external text" href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/07/china-slams-u-s-interference-after-obama-meets-dalai-lama/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in July 2011</a>, the <a class="external text" href="http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2011-07/18/nw.D110000renmrb_20110718_1-03.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">People’s Daily</a><b> </b>complained, “<a class="external text" href="http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2011-07/18/nw.D110000renmrb_20110718_1-03.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">To host the Dalai Lama at the same time China was celebrating the 60th anniversary of Tibet’s liberation hurt the feelings of all Chinese people, including the feelings of Tibetans</a>.”</p>
<p>Netizens may repeat this stock complaint sardonically, or turn it on its head and disavow damage to their own feelings:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Xiansu1981</i> (@限速1981): To those <a title="Crooked kernel" href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Crooked_kernel">crooked kernels</a>[foreigners] on CCTV <a class="external text" href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/01/190124/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claiming they have <b>hurt the feelings of the Chinese people</b></a>, let me tell you, I’m a member of the Chinese people, and my feelings haven’t been hurt by you in the least. The feelings you’ve really hurt belong to the<a title="Zhao family member" href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Zhao_family_member">people of Zhao</a>. (January 20, 2016)</p>
<p>那些在电视上声称<b>伤害了中国人民的感情</b>的歪果仁，我对你讲哈，我是中国人民的一员，我的感情并没有被你伤害。你所伤害的感情应该是赵国人的。[<b><a class="external text" href="http://weibo.com/2769684011/De1OxCZhX" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chinese</a></b>]</p></blockquote>
<p>In 2008, blogger “FangK” searched through the electronic archives of the People’s Daily between 1946 and 2006 and found that <a class="external text" href="http://www.danwei.org/foreign_affairs/a_map_of_hurt_feelings.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">19 countries and organizations had been accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people</a> in its pages. Victor Mair considered the inverse in 2011, comparing the <a class="external text" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3425" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">frequency of hurt Chinese feelings</a> to those of Russians, Japanese, Jews, and other national and ethnic groups.</p>
<p>(<span class="s1">In 2015, in response to anger on Chinese social media, Taiwan-born singer Chou Tzu-yu apologized for holding the island’s Republic of China flag on South Korean TV. Amid speculation that Chou had been forced to apologize by her management, <a href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/01/taiwan-votes/">Taiwan’s president-elect Tsai Ing-wen</a> said that the incident “<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/flag-waiving-teen-pop-star-unites-fractious-taiwan/">has hurt the feelings of all Taiwan’s people</a>.”</span>)</p>
<p>Columnist Kai Pan calls the hurt feelings accusation “<a class="external text" href="http://cnreviews.com/life/society-culture/michael_arrington_hurt_feelings_of_european_people_20081215.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">inherently idiotic</a>,” based on immature assumptions about the entirety of Chinese society.</p>
<p>No matter how pained the Chinese people’s feelings, international relations still manage to stay intact. When democracy activist <a class="external text" href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/hu-jia/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hu Jia</a> was awarded the EU Sakharov Prize in 2008, the Chinese ambassador to Brussels wrote, “If the European Parliament should award this prize to Hu Jia, that would inevitably hurt the Chinese people’s feelings once again and bring serious damage to China-EU relations.” To date, <a class="external text" href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/europe-relations/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">China-EU relations</a> are still highly functional.</p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on February 2, 2016 </div>
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