In the eyes of those living in the cities, country people are "stupid"...

"Once I took my students on a field trip to the countryside. After inspecting corn growing in one of the fields, a young female student, acting as if she knew it all, announced, 'This year's wheat has grown extremely tall'. The peasant standing beside her did not spit at her even once, but gave her a little smile, which an astute observer might have interpreted as a reaction to her stupidity"


"From the soil", by Fei Xiaotong, 1948.

Uno dei saggi sulla società cinese più coinvolgenti che abbia mai (ri)letto.