damn i bet they have some cool history books over there that're not translated into english. i want to hear hot chinese takes on the soviet union, stalin, brezhnev etc.

  • skollontai [any]
    12·
    4 years ago

    I strongly encourage China simps not to read books written in China. The Chinese censorship apparatus is not strict enough; you will get triggered by domestic critiques that sound exactly like the commentary you think only comes from Western anarchists on twitter. I particularly warn you against reading Lu Xun and Yu Hua's perspectives on greed and ambition in their respective periods of China's history, and then considering just how little has changed over the course of the PRC's reign.

      • skollontai [any]
        2·
        4 years ago

        Yes, exactly. Not only was he a great writer (worth reading on purely literary grounds) he also accurately predicted many of the pitfalls that the left in China would face. The lessons he drew from the Xinhai revolution are useful to understanding the failure of Chinese communism (and a hell of a lot more well written them most texts in that line).

    • threshold [he/him]
      13·
      4 years ago

      How dare you! Because China has achieved the immense accomplishment of simply not being as bad as the US, China should not be criticised.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Especially Lu Xun. A CIA agent who died before the CIA was founded!

          • Pezevenk [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            I don't think the person who brought him up was implying his writings were supposed to be contrary to the PRC. I think they were bringing him up to make the point that his critiques are very similar to those of the more modern writer they brought up.