It seems to me this whole " All China hates Japan" stuff is a lot of hooey at times.

Case in point, if they did despise Japan and the Japanese people as much as folks here seem to think, there is absolutely no way in Hell that this next thing would have occurred.

Namely, the filming of one of the "Four Great Classical Novels", (the masterpieces of early Chinese literature) - what we in the West know as "The Water Margin", the Chinese know as "Shui Hu Zhuan" (All Men Are Brothers) and the Japanese know as Suikoden In China. By the Japanese t.v. network, NHK, using a mainly Japanese cast and crew, using the Japanese language and having a Japanese theme song.

During the time of Chairman Mao Tse Tung!

(I despise Pinyin, so I do not use it when transliterating Chinese names etc, so that is the spelling I chose)

Some Chinese people do detest the Japanese for what they did to their country before and during World War 2. Most, however, prefer to do business with them and see personal grudges as an impediment to doing that business.