An illustration from Year Hare Affair that depicts a Chinese soldier protecting national territory in a Galwan Valley skirmish with India in June 2020. Photo: Courtesy of Lin Chao
When the gallant deeds of PLA martyr Xiao Siyuan were reported by the media, after the 24-year-old soldier sacrificed his life to safeguard the Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley skirmish with India in June 2020, a lot of people were moved, especially when they found out that Xiao had been using an image from patriotic cartoon Year Hare Affair as his WeChat profile photo.
“I’m so touched and inspired to see that this hero may have gotten some spiritual comfort from [my] anime,” cartoonist Lin Chao, author of the top patriotic animation, wrote on Sina…