I was serious about the China thing, but it seems like everybody that comes from there says about the same thing, it seems like culture just got flattened
@sun@lain there are 8 big cuisines in china. they are very different to each other.
also i feel like western view is mostly focused on the east coast.
while the communist party did repress cultural stuff in the past afaik officially they stopped and started to preserve most cultural stuff.
i remember i watched a great theatre play about the autumn festival. harbin has a crazy ice festival but it was to cold to visit (i chickened out and went south)
Culture was essentially murdered during cultural revolution, and the majority of people born in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s barely had any idea about traditional culture.
The 2000s generation has gotten into rediscovering what was killed, and many things have come back in a big way.
Kind of funny to think about, but "China Wave" in music and fashion is actually a big thing in China right now.
@lain@istvan I'm gonna see if I can get on this thing. apparently if you're a foreigner you can't buy anything or see some product pages but you can use it
@sun@lain You're looking for something hard to find.
You either need a Chinese person who cares so much about random shit in China that they will go through the huge effort of making it accessible to foreigners, or a foreigner who cares so much about what's going on in China he will make it accessible to foreigners.
That's not much of a thing outside the crazy wuxia fiction fan translation community.
@istvan@lain I accept that this interest may be just a pipe dream. I just had a curiosity because it feels like not much from there actually makes it here.
@sun@lain Always been the case. Few people have the passion to bridge the gap, and so few people give a fuck about that work that they usually don't keep it up for long.
More often you just see retards like SertpentZA giving their smooth-brained political takes. That seems to be the only China content foreigners care about.
@istvan@lain I kind of fell into that for a while (there's a lot of that content yeah) and I'm not quite out of "china bad" mindset but I'm trying to erase it and focus just on actual interesting things.
@sun@lain Is there anything in particular you are looking for? If it happens to be something I have some interest in maybe I can make a recommendation.
@istvan@lain No not really I just felt weird that I wasn't seeing a lot of stuff like I do with say Japanese, even if it's stuff that doesn't get shared openly with us I find references to it online so I know it exists.
@sun@lain If you are into idol pop, someone has taken the time to subtitle a lot of the songs by SING女团. They are very much in that "China Wave" category.
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maybe could lend you this book. but talks brief period between normal-people-have-net-access and state censorship catches up, with a bit more sharing freedom and kinda discovering the rest of the world is making things too (see "fansubbing" above P1140026.JPG P1140030.JPG
@hakui@lain@istvan@sun@ageha clicked on this a week ago, but haven't actually watched. was scrolling through my watch history today while having lunch with chinese friends and forgot how it ended up there, so just asked friends if they know anything about it.
ended up watching it together, good laugh, thanks hakui.
There isn't much going on in regards to Chinese webspace at the moment aside from a few porn BBSes clinging to life. Otherwise just news, and that's all propaganda. Weibo is corporate spam and a channel people maintain for their work only if they have to.
Life has really sectioned off into niche interests. Most of what's going on is in small WeChat groups, and video content on Xiaohongshu.
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