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China's Sea Turtles

Alice Poon
Aug 25, 2008
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The article seeks to analyse the reasons for the chauvinistic sentiments among the young generation of Chinese who are studying or have studied overseas and returned to China.

“Such sentiments are common on the mainland. But people like (Charles) Zhang were supposed to be different: he's what Chinese call a hai gui—‘sea turtle’--referring to someone who …

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