It’s time for a special treat. In fact, today you get two great treats in one: Flash animation and modern Chinese propaganda! It’s cheesey. It’s trippy. It’s got music, a disembodied constitution-procuring hand, voting, lime green birds, and a scene stolen directly from Disney’s “It’s a Small World After All.” Perhaps most mystifying is the fact that for all the people that appear in the cartoon, there is exactly one nose. Check it out for yourself.
Genius.
I will now live a life of law abiding cleanliness, inspired by the wonders of the QQ “tejing”…
January 18th, 2006 at 11:54 amI found that very depressing. Also, apparently the artist thinks that Chinese people all look like monkeys as it had a very Planet of the Apes feel to it.
January 18th, 2006 at 2:39 pmI love how at the end, as is normal in propaganda here, the various minority peoples are singing and dancing in traditional dress. After all, that’s what they do best, right?
January 18th, 2006 at 4:57 pmScares me to death :) That kind of stuff goes down bad with me. Thanks for the link. What do the traditional characters that wave by in the beginning say? I can’t read most of them, but it seems to be about Taiwan. Could be interesting?
January 18th, 2006 at 5:33 pmevery single of them looks like a memeber of Gorillaz…feel good!
January 18th, 2006 at 5:49 pmThanks to the magic of “Print Screen” and my lovely able to read 繁体 wife, the first two screens of characters are
主办： 司法部法制宣传司 中国普法网 东方法治网
协办： 闪吧 网易动漫 搜狐动漫 兴浪动漫
Unfortunately nothing very interesting.
January 18th, 2006 at 8:27 pmAt least counting noses (nose?) gives those of us who cannot understand Chinese something to do.
January 18th, 2006 at 9:38 pmI thought all the charactors looked half asleep in the majority of the scenes, and I aslo have to agree with the comments above; Gorillaz band members totally!
January 18th, 2006 at 10:24 pmpeepy,
Gorillaz?? Come on, those cartoon characters are drawn much better than the ones in this propaganda toon!
Melissa,
I agree with you that everyone looks sleepy. I guess maybe the secret to making the nation all harmonious is to keep everyone heavily sedated?
January 18th, 2006 at 10:48 pmBut what the heck was it all about??
I’ll have to see if I can find that song in MP3.
January 19th, 2006 at 10:56 amIt’s so scary that it’s cool! Such a peaceful, clean, happy, democratic country filled with police who will protect me, smile with me, and hold my hand. Wooo-hoooo! Now I’m even more excited about my first trip to China in April!
Can anyone volunteer to translate/summarize the lyrics to the song? Must be something like this:
Because we are the people The people of the country The country for the people A land like no other
Because we are the people We vote to do our duty The duty of the people In a land like no other
And flying kites And holding hands And helping each other In a land for the people
Cheers, Robert
January 20th, 2006 at 5:26 amSurprised there’s no mention of the Beijing Olympics.
January 21st, 2006 at 2:16 am[...] Sinosplice points us to some pretty, Flash patriotic propaganda for China. [...]
January 21st, 2006 at 10:49 amNothing like the fun of critiquing cultural propoganda!
Course, here in the good ole US of A, we’ve got Sesame Street to teach our kids bout hygiene (think the green Garbage dude, I forget his name! lol), letters & the Cookie Monster!
We’ve also had cartoons promoting environmental brainwashing (think Captain Planet) and conservation (Smokey the Bear) and citizenship (McGruff the dog)… so it’s not like we can really say anything!
Fun stuff!
J P B. Grrr, SC (aka Greer, SC)
January 22nd, 2006 at 1:00 amnoseless china cyber cops
John at Sinosplice links to patriotic Chinese flash animation.: It’s time for a special treat. In fact, today you get two great treats in one: Flash animation and modern Chinese propaganda! It’s cheesey. It’s trippy. It’s got music, a
January 22nd, 2006 at 3:10 pmReminds me of how US Army used violent video game as recruiting tool:
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,63911,00.html
January 25th, 2006 at 8:14 am