{"id":8734,"date":"2005-03-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/23\/i-love-china\/"},"modified":"2005-10-09T00:51:02","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T21:51:02","slug":"i-love-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/23\/i-love-china\/","title":{"rendered":"I love China"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I have realized something today.  <b>I love China<\/b>.  I never thought I do.  Actually, I never thought on the subject.  Neither about China, nor about any other country.  (Well, maybe Cyprus, but that doesn&#8217;t count since I am living in this country).<\/p>\n<p>Before you start looking for a different blog to read, let me tell you that I have never been to China.  Nor have I read any books about China.  I have met a few Chinese people, but I haven&#8217;t been really close with anyone of them.  At this point you might be wondering how did I arrive to the conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was sitting there doing nothing when this Chinese girl popped up in my ICQ.  Her English was good enough for us to talk so we did.  She asked me if I ever visited her country or if I knew anything about it.  I started thinking.  And here is what came to my mind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am one of the greatest fans of Chinese martial arts movies.  There is a special place in my heart for all of them collectively and few of them individually.<\/li>\n<li>I really enjoy Chinese cuisine.  Of course, all those places that I have tried might have nothing in common with the real meal in China, but as far as I went and as far as my imagination can take me, I really like Chinese food.<\/li>\n<li>I like Chinese art.  Especially paintings, but anything works.  Some of the best decorations that I have seen were embroideries on Chinese silk.  And, of course, the china porcelain dishes.  Those are really cool, though I haven&#8217;t seen many of them.  But I liked those that I have seen.<\/li>\n<li>I like Chinese dragons.  Dragons have a special place in Chinese culture and I totally dig them.  Dragon dances, pictures, fairy tales and all the other dragonware &#8211; I like it.<\/li>\n<li>I like Chinese architecture.  I haven&#8217;t seen any in real life, but those that come on pictures and in the movies look really cool.  If you can&#8217;t think of any, I&#8217;ll remind you of Imperial palaces, Great Wall of China, and monasteries.<\/li>\n<li>I like Chinese people.  I met a few.  I didn&#8217;t get very close to any of them, as I have already mentioned above.  But all of them seemed like decent people.  What I liked about them was that they knew how to have some real fun without crossing too many of cultural borders.  This is a rare quality, if you ask me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was surprised by myself.  First of all, I never knew that I knew so much about China.  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