Ukuba yintatheli kuqinisekisa onke amanqaku ekuzicingeni njengomntu ohambileyo. Kuba ukuze ubalise okwenzekayo naphi na emhlabeni kufuneka ube nolwazi olusisiseko ukuze udlulisele okwenzekayo ngokuthembeka. Isiphumo sinokuba, njengale meko, luhlobo oluthile uncwadi lokuhamba ukufumanisa ngokupheleleyo yonke into ephekwe kude ngaphaya kwembonakalo kunye ne-clichés.
UMavi Doñate uchithe iminyaka eliqela esichazela okwenzeka eTshayina. Ngexesha apho siye sakwazi ukufumanisa indlela "i-Asian giant" eyabiweyo yaba yinto entsha yehlabathi. Kodwa ngaphaya kwaloo mbono we-ethnocentric apho yonke into yangaphandle ibonwa ngayo, intatheli efana noMavi Doñate Herranz wayejongene nokusizisela enye iChina yangaphakathi. I-China apho inkcubeko yayo iphumle, amasiko ayo.
Ngenxa yokuba nangona kuyinyani ukuba i-China ivelele ngokunika ihlabathi izithunzi ezingaphezulu kunezibane kuphuhliso lwayo lwezoqoqosho kunye nentlalontle, kuyimfuneko ukuba ube ne-panorama epheleleyo yokupaka ubandlululo olunokwandisa kuyo yonke into enxulumene neli lizwe.
I-China ikude. Yinto yokuqala into yokuba intatheli emiswe ekupheleni kwehlabathi ifunde esingazange siyihoye kakhulu. Xa uMavi Doñate wafika eBeijing e ihlobo le-2015 Nge-vertigo efakwe esiswini sakhe, wazalisekisa iphupha elalihamba naye ukususela ebuntwaneni: ukuba ngumnxibelelanisi. Into endingazange ndiyicinge ngelo xesha kukuba ndandiza kudlala indima ebalulekileyo kweli nqanaba lokuqala kule nkulungwane.
UMavi Doñate unesipho sangaphakathi, umxube we-intuition kunye nobuqili, ukuxelela amabali. Ingxelo yakhe yobuqu yeminyaka emithandathu wayehlala kwingxilimbela yaseAsia, eyenziwe kwiinkumbulo kunye namazwi ashiywe kulwazi lwemihla ngemihla, isinika umfanekiso oxabisekileyo weTshayina yanamhlanje. La maphepha ahamba ngokuchasana kwelizwe ekuhlaziyweni rhoqo kwaye asisuse kwiipolitiki zamazwe ngamazwe ukuya kubomi bemihla ngemihla; ukusuka kubomi banamhlanje obungalawulekiyo ukuya kwezona zithethe zinengcambu; ukusuka kukuphithizela ezitalatweni kwimibhiyozo yoNyaka oMtsha ukuya ekuthuleni kwezona ntsuku zimbi kakhulu zobhubhane, kwaye ziyasikhumbuza ukuba, amashumi eminyaka, besihlala ngemiqolo yethu kwinamba yeminyaka eliwaka elinde ixesha layo lokuvuka.
Ngoku ungathenga incwadi ethi "Ngaphantsi kwejongo lenamba evukileyo", nguMavi Doñate, Apha:
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