Lonely China Excluded
Posted by SWG on 13/3/10 • Categorized as Hangzhou, Info, Shop
Dropped into the Hangzhou Foreign Language Bookstore the other day and managed to snap this photo when nobody was looking. Can you see anything missing?
It’s a nice shop though. Top floor has a collection of coffee table art books, some mangled by years of people thumbing through them, others wrapped and in perfect nick. Middle floor has a slightly odd range of English language airport thrillers and classics. Also a hardback copy of Dan Brown’s latest if you are into that…
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Foreign Language Bookstore | 438 Fengqi Road外文书店 | 凤起路438
0571 85069826
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Is there a prize for spotting the missing thing?
Missing thing is the prize!
France, Germany, Italy, Russian, Spain(ALL COUNTRIES), but TIBET(Still part of China). The staff who put this poster Lonely Planets on the wall in a bookstore in CHINA must be FEARLESS. Or he just could not read English. Or he is just simple-minded. Or he might just forget here is CHINA, who governs by the Communist Party, and this sort of thing is forbidden.
Well, I actually admire him. Oh, I NEVER think Tibet belongs to China.
There is also “Taiwan”, but guess which country is not there? CHINA! Why? Um, because it has some not very nice things to say about Tibet and Taiwan. Hilarious logic.
I think the technical reason is simply because the map inside the cover shows taiwan as a separate country (some travelers have had LP China confiscated at the border, and were advised to rip out this map page to not have it confiscated)