In June Hainan’s government published a list of places and buildings with names that “worship foreign things and toady to foreign powers”
province of Hainan is a tropical tourist-magnet of white-sand beaches, mountains and rainforests. Posh resorts line the island’s shore. It is also on the front lines of a culture war. In June Hainan’s government published a list of 53 places and buildings, including many hotels, with names that “worship foreign things and toady to foreign powers”. It said these names must be “cleaned up and rectified”—ie, changed.
Many of the offending names use Chinese characters that, put together, sound like foreign words: Kaisa for Caesar, for example , or Weiduoliya for Victoria . Several of the buildings are hotels called Weiyena, or Vienna. They belong to the Jinjiang Group, a state-owned firm. The Vienna chain has publicly complained, saying its brand was legally registered in 2012.That was the year Xi Jinping took over as China’s leader.
The campaign has triggered an outcry online. One blogger wondered whether a subway station in Shanghai called Dishini, or Disneyland, after a nearby theme park, would have to be renamed. Others worried that the new policy might harm firms with foreign-sounding names, or result in clumsy efforts to translate Western names into Chinese rather than using phonetic approximations. To restore calm, the Ministry of Civil Affairs warned against “random expansion” of the purge.
Mr Xi’s efforts are unlikely to achieve much. Wang Yahuang, a columnist, put it well in an article published by China Business Online, a state-owned website: “Cultural confidence does not stem from restriction. Genuine cultural confidence presents fearlessness to external cultures.”"Nominal confidence"
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