World War II is playing multiple times a day on Chinese
television. Just in case Chinese forget how much they hate the Japanese, they
are referred to as the guizi (devil) in the teleplays and are always doing the
most barbaric things. There are a couple of things to know if you watch these
shows (and they are available 24 hours a day on free apps you can download to
your computer here in the good old USA. However they're in Mandarin, with no
subtitles, so your Chinese has to be good)
Firstly, the most beautiful woman with the most regal
bearing is the Communist spy working within the Kuomintang operation. This
organization is run by Jiang Jie Shi (Chiang kai-shek) and is dedicated to
killing communists and never having to fight the Japanese (the guys who have
invaded China and love killing Chinese citizens.)
It's interesting that after the war Mao was asked if he hated the Japanese. He said no,
that without them, the Kuomintang would have killed all the communists. If you
watch the war progress, Chiang kai-shek
runs further and further to the West, ending up in Chongqing, a place that has
never been called the garden spot of China. If he retreated any further, he
would be in Burma.
Since in the end no one in power in China really wanted to
fight the Japanese, America drops nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
Japanese soldiers have to go home because Emperor Hirohito says it's over. Now
the Kuomintang and communists can kill each other without the guizi getting in
the way.
