Word to China.

This is un-sodding-believable.

In China Daily, the Chinese Communist Party propaganda newspaper in English, there was a story about the locals in a province of China refusing to let the Communist Party take down a Chinese stelae commemorating the Englishman who found a negotiable passage down a dangerous provincial river thus opening up the area to trade and making everyone rich. Seems this Englishman was a hero in the area and therefore they weren't going to allow the Communist Party to carry out their current historical rewriting agenda - wherein no one else foreign ever did anything to help China - on their turf.

Kudos Provincial Chinese!

It's a great story but not the one that I find so un-sodding-believable.  It's this one:

The reporter who wrote this article said he came across another amazing story about an Englishwoman,  Gladys Alyward, who worked in this area:

Seems this reporter fellow discovered that there was an English parlourmaid who so wanted to be a missionary she saved up all her wages for a decade and ended up in this self-same provincial area of China, and who ended up saving several hundred children from the invading Japanese army.

And the reporter says "This story is such a good one, it deserves to be made into a film."


Seriously? 

OK, I know China was behind the Iron Curtain for many decades, but don't they have fact-checkers up there?

A little hint to that certain Beijing journalist:  IT'S ALREADY BEEN MADE. IT WAS A SMASH HIT. OSCARS WERE WON.
It's called "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" and it's just gorgeous. 



PLUS the entire film is now up in youtube so there's no excuse for Chinese not to know about it.

So please, Beijing fact-checkers, please take it onboard so you don't let any reporter say anything so silly again.

Oh, and aren't you waiting with bated breath for the opening of the film "Flowers of War."?