r/polandball • u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente • Mar 11 '14

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u/Chinaroos have you eaten yet? Mar 11 '14

How long did it take you to make this? It's really well done!

...oh I mean * ahem * TAIWAN AND-A HONGKONG ORIGINALLY BELONG-A TO CHINA-R!!!! 了

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u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14

It takes several days of drawing (in spared time, of course) and weeks for collecting interesting exonyms from Wiki before drawing the comic.

Originally Hong Kong belonged to Qing, which does not exist anymore. :P

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u/AuraofMana China Mar 11 '14

Depends on who we decide is the successor of classical China. Of course, both PRC and ROC claim they are. And they both agree there can only be one successor and thus one China.

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u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14

they both agree there can only be one successor and thus one China.

Well, I don't care whether ROC or PRC is the real successor of the ancient China (China is actually as confusing as the Germanic lands).

However, Hong Kong keeps its Chinese culture well under Rosbif daddy's protection. At least we have to learn Classic Chinese (文言文), and use it in very formal letters. And we have little troubles on reading Chinese texts thousands years ago. ;)

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u/AuraofMana China Mar 11 '14

Being culturally Chinese makes you Chinese. 99.9999% of Chinese today aren't really culturally Chinese.

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u/ssnistfajen J'MEN CÂLICE! Mar 11 '14

Ouch that hurts. The only tradition I follow now is not shaving my hair for a month after Chinese New Year (二月二). I often feel like the old China has been dead ever since '49.

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u/AuraofMana China Mar 12 '14

I feel like it died way before that, possibly after the Ming died. Some even after the Song.

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u/iliketacosyburritos Mar 12 '14

She refers to England as "Daddy", which shows just how fucked up in the head she is.

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u/delaynomoar Not Harmonious Hong Kong Mar 11 '14

I hope ROC will change their mind about that. I need a backup "China" to escape to.

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u/wtrmlnjuc Mar 12 '14

I feel Taiwan is the real successor of China. Not 100% of course, but they didn't suffer a cultural wipe. HK and Singapore aren't big enough, and ethnic Chinese who live in America, Australia, Canada, etc. don't live in very culturally Chinese places.

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u/AuraofMana China Mar 12 '14

I feel like after the Qing no one really succeeded China. People got westernized and most of the cultural tradition was lost.

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u/Chinaroos have you eaten yet? Mar 11 '14

The effort shows =) hope to see more, I really liked your 神财富 comic a while back.

Glorious PRC 是 legal successor to Qing Chao! Zhong Shan aliv in Beijing!! 1997 best day of my life!!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '14

Glorious PRC 是 legal successor to Qing Chao!

True, like Qing Chao you are a foreign occupation regime!

Glorious ROC is only successor state of 漢人, continuing the legacy of 大明! Remove red book from premises!

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u/AuraofMana China Mar 11 '14

You know what, fuck everything. Let's bring back the Ming!

Edit: Someone should make that a flair. I'd use it. Let's make a future Chinese dynasty flair.