Today's lesson: Fen Qing

'Fen qing' means literally "angry youth" in Chinese, and refers to a particular type of individual playing a particularly significant role in contemporary Chinese society. They are typically young men, often students, who appear to spend the majority of their time patrolling the Internet for potentially defamatory comments about their homeland. An important characteristic of a fenqing is the unquestionnable loyalty to and complete acceptance of what the Party says. They are most notibly active during times at which the country is on the defensive, the national media tend to launch an offensive on whichever country has pissed them off (last year's Tibet protests for instance, increasingly saw France on the recieving end of the fenqing's attacks).

Some of the current viewpoints of the fenqing:

- U.S. is a monolith. America is bad, bad and bad because Bush is bad.
- Anti-Japan and call for boycotting Japanese products while enjoying Japanese AV or cartoons.
- China’s stock market slumps because of the conspiracy of the imperialist western countries. The price of housing in China skyrocketed because of the hot money of the international speculators.
- Western countries led by the U.S. are trying to encircle and contain China.
- The Internet should be censured and any bad information, like the flies or mosquitoes outside the room, must be screened and filtered.
- CNN is evil because it lied, but it is fine for CCTV to modify the information to maintain the stability of the society.

This post from ThinkWierd goes into greater detail on this interesting phenomenon.