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By jingo, they're mad![1]

In 2007, she appeared on the cover of Brio, a Japanese magazine, looking buddy-buddy with a Japanese man. In 2006, she was featured on the cover of the Japanese edition of Playboy. Though alone, she obviously played to Japanese male fantasy.

What should these "seven deadly sins" get her? I will not quote the online suggestions. Suffice it to say, it's not pretty. Sometimes I have the feeling that Zhang gets her hefty fees not for her performances, but for all the mud thrown at her. She is as quickly deemed here a symbol of a hundred years of Chinese humiliation as she is seen as the archetypal Chinese porcelain doll in Hollywood.

Why are Chinese youths -netizens are predominantly young - so easily affronted? Moreover, when they feel displeased, they purport to represent the whole Chinese nation, not just themselves. What gave them the power to make such a bombastic claim?

Online, ultra-nationalistic postings often assume anyone who does not agree with them is "unpatriotic". They will say: "If you love your country, come read this article!" Since when has reading one specific posting out of millions become a prerequisite for loving one's country? These guys haven't even read Confucius or the 300 Tang poems, yet they still feel free to call themselves patriots.

Jingoistic rants share two common traits: They are extremist by nature and have zero tolerance for different opinions, even for those that only slightly veer from their orthodox view of political correctness. I once had a televised debate with Huang Jisu, one of the authors of China Is Not Happy. Huang basically said that all those writers who continued working during the Japanese occupation were traitors even though they may not have ingratiated themselves to the occupiers. He took out a photo of a famous martyr and said people should live up to that model. I said that martyr was, indeed, a patriotic hero but we cannot expect everyone in Japanese-occupied Shanghai to have acted like that. Moreover, I seriously doubted my opponent would himself have had that kind of courage.