I cannot believe people who level criticism towards Lu Chuan's magnificent Kekexili, calling it pro-Chinese propaganda! How can anyone fail to be moved by this story of vigilante justice, conservationism, and human survival in the most desolate of places? This story may be many things (Western, ethnography), but Western critics are so quick to appraise (dismiss) it from a political angle.

This tendency infuriates me because what passes for concern about "human rights in China" is really a subtle, patronizing form of Western imperialism aimed at emasculating the perceived threat of a growing power through implied Western cultural, moral superiority.