Zhongguo

China is called "Zhongguo" in Chinese.

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Yes, the Chinese are as if they had just awakened from a long sleep. They are laughing in the sun, the streets are clean, the houses friendly and inviting. We never eat at our apartment but at a different place every night, and the people are always disarmingly kind and open-hearted. One of these days Zhongguo will be a great country.

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But did not the Chinese boast of their long written history? The answer to this puzzling question can be found in an unequivocal remark made by a Chinese student in Japan. He lamented: “Our Zhongguo does not have a national history.”

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[F]uture generations of Chinese leaders will recognize that a new Chinese civilization will not depend on China remaining a Party-state or becoming a nation-state. A broad and inclusive Zhongguo will need to go further to establish a civilization that its people all agree will be modern and admirable. That may or may not be the “socialist civilization with Chinese characteristics” that the Party wants for China today.

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