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my piece for the @hws-anthology! it's the gang enjoying some spicy street hotpot on a humid summer's evening 🍲
thanks to the mods for their enduring patience, and for pulling this off. i'm happy to have participated in something like this with so many friends and creators i admire 🧡
doodling some long overdue East Asians <3
The history of the region is really quite fascinating, and despite the extremely complicated politics and tensions today, it’s interesting to note how much Chinese culture influenced the entirety of East Asia. This was in large part because ancient China existed as an empire for centuries, which treated neighbouring countries as vassal states that had to pay tribute to the Chinese emperor. The similarities between Chinese, Korean and Japanese culture like Confucianism, Buddhism, clothing styles and writing are due to ancient Chinese influence that melded with local Japanese and Korean culture. Classical Chinese was widely used for formal writing, kind of the way Latin was used across Europe.
Of course, as centuries passed, Korea and Japan developed distinct writing systems and increasingly asserted themselves as distinct from China culturally. A similar thing happened more recently for Hong Kong and Taiwan, which are majority Han Chinese- but often see themselves as distinct from mainland China due to more recent politics and history, resulting in the extremely convoluted relationship you see in the news today.
“Can I carry hope this time?“
what started out as studies very quickly became hetalia fanart
A lonely Hong Kong =o of course, in the actual city, there’d be hordes of people crowding the streets hunting for Pokemon and etc.
Commissioned by @arewehumanes !
Business man won the old man lose. Base of this.
Scarlet Macau
China: Just one of the complications of long-distance relationships…
//and thank you anon!! We are very excited too.
when it comes to the west, the chinese have a long memory. what they remember from the century of humiliation has been tinged with blood, opium, and fire
Picture credit ♦
start the day off with small doodles
Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 80 Original Translation: donamoeba // y4nderenka Scanlation: pandabaozi Please link back to our Tumblr when using translated images on other sites.
Tbh I feel like people are gonna forget it’s also Hong Kong’s day not just Canada‘s.
So last year Chirstmas, the hetascanlations team held a secret santa where our members would send gifts to one another. My recipient was pandabaozi and I just KNEW I had get her an aph Hong Hong. :D cioccolatodorima was very kind and drew me this image to go with the pressies. THANK YOU SO MUCH HON but no she is too well-versed in hetalia she guessed the package wasn’t from Himaruya XDD
Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 65 Original Translation: y4nderenka // donamoeba Scanlation: pandabaozi Please link back to our Tumblr when using translated images on other sites.
“Hong Kong’s house is engulfed in a smog so thick that you can’t even see across the harbour at its famous sightseeing spot. Since there isn’t much they can do about it, it seems like they employed a drastic solution where they prepared an huge image of the harbour on a clear day, so it’s like at least you can take a picture or something.” [x][x]
What even???
Aight, I live in Hong Kong, and I can tell you that the air quality is nowhere near this bad. That is fog, not smog. I’ve never heard of the huge picture thing either.
Protip, never trust anything the Daily Mail says. There’s a reason why it’s been nicknamed the Daily Fail.
I believe this particular strip is referring to a period of time when a smog in Beijing travelled to Hong Kong causing extra air pollution.
I live in Hong Kong too so I definitely agree that we get some clear days. Here is a picture I took just 5 minutes ago:
It’s still a bit cloudy but you can clearly see that the sky and the sea are blue!
I can assure you, however, that the incident illustrated and Hong Kong’s air pollution issue were not made up. In fact they were covered by several Hong Kong media outlets, and here are a few I found (in Chinese):
Apple Daily: [x][x][x] Sky Post: [x] Bastille Post: [x] Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting [x] (this one actually shows that backdrop)
I do agree that the Daily Mail article is not the best written one on the subject though. I only sourced it because it’s where the image is from. If you know where I can find a better English article with image, I’d really appreciate it if you can let me know!
