How do the citizens of China really feel about their contry and government?

[Katherine]

Like a milder North Korea, the Chinese are partly brainwashed by their government.
Their internet is highly censored, their media is all state controlled.
Things like "Human Rights" searches are blocked and their few social networks are highly censored and controlled.
So, do the Citizens of China know of their horrors? Do they know they are being controlled and manipulated?
Or are they aware of the situation they are in, but just too frightened to admit it?
I would really like to hear from a 'genuine' Chinese national, if there's one out there!
I'd love to know what life is like and what people really think.
I'm not American.
So yeah.
Why only allow state media and censor access to the internet if China's so free and great?

[Zhu Bajie]

Most Chinese people are patriotic and support the status quo. No one I know wants to go back to the Warlord days, let alone the monarchy. They know that they are far more prosperous and healthy than 1949 and that they have far more personal freedom than even in the '80s. They cannot revolt, but no country allows revolts.

Seriously, Americans are at least as brainwashed and controlled as Chinese people, maybe more. Most of what Americans believe about China is as false as can be. Most of what Chinese people think they know about the USA is based on Hollywood romantic comedies, TV sit-coms like Vampire Diaries, and similar fantasies.

If you want to know what PR China is really like, post a resume to http://www.AbroadChina.org . It is not hard to get a contract to teach English at a Chinese college or university. Last I knew, Changsha Teacher's College (college home of Mao Zedong!) was looking. The main qualification is that you be a native English speaker. A "can-do" attitude is very useful, too.

[MacBryan]

Great answer from Baije, which pretty much reflects the opinions I hear from most people when I visit. Before you judge the Chinese for preferring authoritarian government, you should try a few decades of civil war and political instability instead.

Comparing China to North Korea is simply laughable and demonstrates the depth of your ignorance.

Personally I feel my rights more infringed in the UK, where I am monitored by surveillance cameras everywhere I go and verbally abused by feral youth and Roma beggars.

[eiji]

they are proud of their country.

like any american do.

despite both nation have authoritarian govt -

1. censorship
2.brainwashing
3.human right abuse
4.fear about police.