While the Huffington Post had
no qualms about labeling the Lankao home illegal, a closer look at China's local culture suggests that the black / white, legal / illegal dichotomy which presupposes so much of our (Western) thinking about society, is not apposite in the Chinese context.
In his most famous speech, delivered 129 years ago yesterday, President Lincoln had absolutely
no qualms about labeling America as a «nation under God.»