Anti-Japanese mob surrounds international dormitory in Shanghai
Some trouble broke out at the Shanghai International Studies University after a group of drunk Japanese students returning from a birthday party made some noise near Chinese student dormitories between 9 and 10PM on Monday night:
Students from the apartments protested, and some of them threw empty plastic bottles from the balconies, according to the statement. The revellers then got abusive, according to some reports.
Japanese students then went to the ninth floor and knocked on several doors. A fresh round of quarrels broke out between the Japanese and Chinese students, according to the statement. The situation was brought under control by security guards.
A witness told Shanghai Daily that more than 100 people had gathered outside the students’ dorm. But the Japanese students continued to be abusive as they left the building. This in turn angered local students.
Check out ChinaSmack for some translations of Chinese BBS postings from students apparently involved in the incident. Here’s an excerpt from one posting about the situation after the police arrived and apparently took away a few drunk Japanese students:
4-5 police cars came and escorted the little Japanese away. One Japanese who had drank too much was also sent to the hospital.
Throughout all of this we were screaming fuck Japan, fuck your mothers, etc…the entire school was very magnificent…I estimate over 80% of the guys had come downstairs…
Seeing as how they did not even give a single apology, and were so arrogant, students who could not accept the situation shouted, “Rush the international guest house!”
So the big team [crowd] again changed to rushing the international guest house.
People started yelling, fuck Japan, little Japanese, fuck your mother, etc. One by one the lights in the international guest house flickered on.
There were foreigners upstairs taking pictures (this was indeed embarrassing), and people from other countries were sticking their country’s flags on their windows, afraid we would charge up there and accidentally cause them harm.
The situation was brought under control a few hours later, with police and security having prevented the angry mob from actually storming the international dormitory.
[hat tip to Jay K.]
