/lit/ - Literature

>>19731544
I think mass immigration smacks the Chinese as a form of neo-colonialism. It's not for no reason that the U.S. has immigration from Mexico and Central America which is a cheap labor colony for cheap manufacturing and coffee which traps them in either third-world poverty, or, in the case of Mexico, the "middle-income" trap which it cannot escape from under the world system which the U.S. constructed after World War II. There is also some size considerations considering that China's population would be like North America, Europe and Latin America combined.

I think Mao also did a little trolling when he was meeting Nixon by offering to export 100 million Chinese women to America in exchange for industrial equipment. Nixon: "Ha ha... oh Mao..."

Mao: "I'm serious."

>>19732762
The issue really is that China doesn't have to be that. It's so huge that a Chinese domestic consumer market for Chinese entertainment is still fucking massive. That's also why it's impossible for the U.S. to really contain it -- they're incredibly resilient to shocks. They need to shut down a city of 12 million to stomp out COVID? Big whoop. The U.S. slaps sanctions on products made in Xinjiang? There's another 1.3 billion people literally right next door to sell those products to, or simply ship them to another province for assembly or simply swapping the labels on the box.

>>19732818
Marx's writings can also explain European history well but not the Sinic history. But there's also Samir Amin and the tributary mode of production, of which feudalism as theorized by Marx was only a peculiar instance. That retains the Marxist framework while avoiding Eurocentrism.

>>19732926
I think China really has three cultures: traditional, red, and modern. So the traditional culture was smashed into atoms during the Cultural Revolution and was replaced by the red culture (imported from the USSR), then with the opening up came the modern culture which is partly imported from the west and other Asian countries (Japan, South Korea), along with some local developments. But after some time passed, elements of the traditional culture were revived if compatible with modernization (everything from musical instruments to aesthetics and the political system, but also different so a meritocratic bureaucracy "serves the people" instead of "serves my lord"). Then modernization also helped "upgrade" and refresh the red culture, so you get this:

https://youtu.be/w2fF5xcEvEI

https://youtu.be/58nhoOziUCw?t=136

The other two cultures provide a "check" on the modern culture keeping them balanced. They're also not static but developing and interacting with each other dialectically.

So you get modernization without full-blown westernization. Now, the de-linking of modernization with westernization does spell the fall of the West in a sense, because Westernization is considered by the West to be universal, and once it no longer is, then that will create a crisis.

See, it's great. White guys, Asian guys, and black guys all getting along under Heaven. Thumbs up to Emperor Xi