Video: China’s “Angry” Youth

August 12, 2008 | Category: China, Olympics, politics, 荒诞

I helped Loretta Chao from the Wall Street Journal produce this video on a kid from Henan she saw filming a protest on Tian’anmen Square yesterday. A fantastic, fascinating character. High on China like he’d injected some sort of narcotized liquid patriotism. Wish I could have used more of him, but Internet attention span research tells us to keep everything to under four minutes. Alas.

Tags: fenqing, nationalism, video, WSJ

2 Comments

Cameron Chin on August 15th, 2008
1
Other then to say hi, I was curious to what extent has the Chinese public’s reaction to the Spanish B-ball team photo been. It has caused quite the uproar with in the Asian-American community.
Tim on August 18th, 2008
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Hey Josh, great job with this. Definitely one of those stories that I’d hoped to see (or do if I ever got back)…I keep reading on Twitter that you’re doing video stuff; let me know if/when/where I can see more.

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Josh Chin is a freelance journalist based in Beijing. He also once worked as a sous chef in a French restaurant in San Francisco. Neither job has been good for his health.