What was China like in the 80s during the Reform and Opening Up era?
>>18446121It was just starting to Americanize, widespread use of drugs among young people in cities, no real culture, many of the people under the previous system were unemployed now. Most people were rural and their life hadn't changed for thousands of years and people were just starting to enter cities. Within cities there was more tourism and western presence. There was still no stores or money or anything libs use. The novels from that time are mostly miserable and confused.
>>18446121Surprisingly similar to how it was in Britain and America under Thatcher and Reagan. People who'd had stable jobs for decades suddenly found themselves on the scrapheap as the livelihoods were stripped away from them in the name of progress. Many former industrial areas became desolate wastelands of poverty, drug epidemics, and general decay, very analagous to what happened in the North of England, Glasgow, South Wales, Appalachia, etc.Kino song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLqaEnq1IPA
>>18446121>during the Reform and Opening Up era?Both of those started in the 70s, not the 80s
This movie covers that period pretty well. Main characters are part of a state funded theatre troup going around singing Maoist songs. Over the course of the movie they see first their buddy from a Special Economic Zone bringing home western music and clothes, then their commune begins decollectivizing and enterprise money + foreign imports allow people to start buying appliances. They no longer get harassed by commissars over adherence to Mao Zedong thought. They all listen to western style music and wear jeans. The theatre troup (now playing western pop music) privatizes and becomes unprofitable and they all have to get real jobs. By the beginning of the 90s they are living in a level of prosperity they couldn't have imagined just over 10 years earlier, but there's a sort of alienation and malaise as they come to terms with how different this world is from the one that they used to live in.
>>18446347>Platform has garnered wide acclaim from critics in the years since its release, and is often named one of the greatest films of the 2000s.[1] The film has been called the masterpiece of the entire "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema,[2] although the movie has never been publicly released in China due to its being made outside of official state approval.[3]Every fucking time. China consistently shoots itself in the foot regarding cultural output. I have no idea how boring it must be to be a Chink and every single piece of media is a sanitized propaganda piece devoid of any meaning, introspection, or purpose.Trailer for third highest grossing movie ever in China:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGNAlvAZjIYThis shit in reverse would make even the most compensating burger blush.
>>18446347of course pro-western kitsch would be critically acclaimed in the west, for a real masterpiece see the Battle of Lake Changjin
>>18446761Lake Changjin is a great war movie and not any worse propaganda than any western movie
>>18446121Widespread capitalism, drugs, low birthrates and shit
>>18446838American wsr movies are atrocious propaganda though.
