/lit/ - Literature

The CCP spend billions and decades in an effort to produce Nobel laureates in literature with zero success
But a Chink did win the Nobel, problem is that most of his works are banned in Choina
The only author from modern chink lit I really enjoyed and the one I recommend to you then is Mo Yan
>Three body problem
Overrated dogshit Pop culture itself is alien to the Chinese, they can no more create popular culture than the left can meme, because pop culture is itself a composition of memes, think of US pop culture of the 80s that seduced the populations of the grey soviet bloc: prosperity, big malls, big hair, big titties, hamburgers, guitar solos. Jackie Chan and HK action flicks rode the same wave, absolutely nothing to do with China >>17188433
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Most of what they create themselves musically is the same sort of anodyne balladry that's universally popular among the brown female peasantry of developing nations, it's purely domestic, impossible to export. In terms of film, they can ape the fugly artificial visual effects of modern hollywood crapfests but we already have our own crapfests, no one wants to sit thru a chinese counterfeit version and have to spend half the film trying to tell the actors apart. The West may come to be ruled behind the scenes by faceless Chinese bureaucrats but they'll never produce a moment of hegemonic cultural imperialism as powerful as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7wqQwa-TU [Embed]