I hope China stand up very early, for China's social civilization, there is no courage to be criticised.

我很早就希望中国的站出来，对于中国的社会文明，都毫无忌惮地加以批评。

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All the people and students, please stand up and face to the national flag of China.

请全体起立，面朝国旗。升国旗，奏国歌，少先队员敬队礼，其他。

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But few places in the world embraced Art Deco with the fervor of Shanghai, a city obsessed with fashion and fixated on being up-to-date -- in part because of the view, prevalent in China at the time, that only by modernizing could the country regain its strength and stand up to Western imperialism and a militant Japan.

WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand