Instilling a sense of Chinese civic consciousness, though, is something that has escaped revolutionaries and visionaries ever since Sun Yat-sen accepted that China is a "plate of loose sand."
逐漸灌輸國民堅強的意志力，恐怕是從孫中山形容中國是「一盤散沙」以來，所有革命家與理想主義者的未酬壯志。