qiritan

Qiritan (Chinese: 《七日谈》), a book published by Xinhua press which is a publishing house with governmental background. is now selling well in China.

This book mainly tells about a dialogue from a Japanese student, Yoshikazu Kato (Japanese: 加藤嘉一), and a Chinese producer, Shan qi(Chinese: 山奇). that include many common think based on the view of ordinary Chinese and Japanese people.

Because history matters, there haven’t enough communications and exchanges between the people of the two countries. Although some Chinese and Japanese civil societies are trying to keep trust and friendship between China and Japan when some regretful things, such as the Japanese premier’s Yasukuni Shrine visits, have happened, the flame of nationalism will swallow up all of the before effort. How to face the future of Sino-Japanese relations, it is a big trouble and still need a long way to go. Maybe, this book will be a good beginning I hope.

kato

Yoshikazu Kato (Japanese: 加藤嘉一), one of the author, after participating in Oriental Horizon, a famous TV program of CCTV, has been well known by more and more chinese people. Kato is now a student in International Relations at Beijing University. He is also a part-time Japanese teacher at a local high school and President of Beijing University’s Japanese Students Association (BUJSA). Here is his more introduction.