As Tang Zhengyu points out, rather than self-confidence, what one is confronted by when walking through mainland China's streets is signs advertising "China's Long Island," and "The Manhattan of the East" (p. 200).
有如湯正宇所指出，漫步在中國街頭，看到的非但不是自信，反而是「中國之長島」「東方曼哈頓」之類的廣告牌。