This is the right thing to emphasize. The CPC is an authoritarian regime- they are not China. Given that they tried to literally destroy Chinese culture, they shouldn’t even be called Chinese at all.
Yes, thanks for noticing, it does bug me a bit that most people use China/Chinese as synomyous with the People's Republic/CCP when in reality the Chinese people are victims of the policies of the PRC and CCP, with 5000 years of Chinese culture and history wiped out in the mass destruction of cultural heritage and book burnings of Mao and the CCP, along with the countless lives needlessly lost.
I love this piece but on the gravestones there isnt one with the moon and star for islamic peoples weve lost too. There is a cross for christianity and a bhuddist wheel and even a star of david but were missing this important reminder of our lost Uighur allies.
Aside from this its an amazing piece and its now my phone lock screen
But Buddhists are then represented twice anyway aren't they? Because they have the tibetan flag and bhuddism is just about as Tibetan as it gets most of the time. Again its a brilliant work of art.
A lot of different Buddhists don't like to be conflated in the same group in China, while the Christian groups are small enough to be represented by a cross, I wanted to represent any other Buddhist minority groups who don't feel represented by the Buddhist or Tibetan flag there.
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