BTW, the brainwashed and the brainwasher don’t always say the same thing. It takes very special skill to have the brainwashed synchronized with the brainwasher, especially when the brainwasher is changing its tune. And the brainwasher don’t always do what they say.

I’m glad that you’ve translated this article. I think Tuluotuo’s analysis is good and is worth translating. You’ve made a really good effort. In fact this piece of writing is more difficult to translate than Zeng Jinyan’s.

侉味儿 can be translated as “non-standard” or “sub-standard” when it is used to describe someone’s accent

朗诵甚至使用了“天朝”这样的词语，要知道这是一个100多年前的好词，在新文化运动以来，中国的精神脊梁基本上被中国的西化精英折腾断了，“天朝”这样的词语已经没有褒义了，一说到“天朝”，人们就会想起颟顸、自大、跟世界格格不入的满清官员。但是非常有趣的是，本朗诵用的恰好是褒义。如同一百年以前仍有几分民族自豪感的中国人的口气。这种口气已经很久没有听到了。
从这点上讲，中国的精神脊梁已经在某种程度上得到了恢复。

They even use an expression such as “celestial dynasty” in the recital. We have to understand that this expression no longer carries a positive connotation, as it used to do more than a century ago. The spirit that supported China’s national pride had been tossed around and turned up-side-down by our Westernised elite since the New Culture Movement. Nowadays, the mentioning of the phrase “celestial dynasty” will only conjure up an image of a proud and arrogant Qing Dynasty Mandarin, whose existence is no long relevant to the modern world. However, I am pleasantly surprised to find that the phrase seems to have carried a positive connotation in this recital. It is even more unusual that the phrase has been uttered with a sense of national pride, as if the spirit that sustains China has been some what restored.