What is going on here literature-wise? Anything remarkable in the last hundred years?
the true masters of writing the same story 1 million times
have heard good things about a fortress besieged
They have a very big sci-fi scene and web novels take up, probably, a greater share of Chinese readership than anywhere else in the world. There are also uniquely Chinese genres like cultivation and wuxia though they're a bit sloppy. They have literary fiction and philosophy too, of course. But China being so large and so far outside the guiding global ideology gives these things an insular quality in my experience. Some of that is a lack of cultural penetration into the West, yes, but I also think Chinese writers are naturally less concerned with universalizing their experience as much as nationalizing it.
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Introduced me to the dark forest solution to the Fermi paradox
>>25280899midwit books nocap nocap
>>25280790sci fi slop and that's all. They got royally fucked by cultural revolution
>>25280899Ai generated covers
I am studying classical chinese but the only text I really care about is Zhuangzi
>>25280790What are the best books to learn qínqíshūhuà?
>>25280790Yu Hua, Mo Yan and Yan Lianke mog 99% of contemporary western literature lol, they also are the perfect trifecta of chinese literature.Yan Lianke - outright banned in chinaYu Hua - Not banned, some of his works are beloved, some hated by the loyalist chinese, becouse he shows how shitty china is and how shitty chinese people areMo Yan - supports the regime and works for itYet all of them criticized Mao and his experiments.To Live is one of the best books ever written.
>>25282306Yeah but whats the point in me reading them when I'm stupid?
>>25282306I don't get the sense that Yu Hua is depicting Chinese people as shitty. His characters are deeply flawed but still capable of change and doing the right thing.I think it's important he doesn't depict the communists in To Live as evil. They're instead shown to be incompetent and inflexible retards that know even less than the peasants they're bossing around.
>>25280862Yeah it makes sense they want to nationalize intellectual culture since there’s been such a consistent push for homogenization even before the PRC gained dominance. Building China is more important to them than some global ideology.
>>25282306Yan Lianke was fun for my first read, but his style just bores me after a while, I doubt people would actually care about him if his work weren't "banned" in China (he's still a professor in China and his works are still being read)
>>25283401You are correct, I simplified it. He depicts the chinese at large as flawed humans. He also shows how materialist and consumerist chinese society is, how the regime has complete disregard for individual human life and also how chinese people actually speak. This is enough to make the chinse nationalists seethe.Hospitals tossing unwanted infants into river as trash disposalWomen commiting suicide becouse their boyfriend bought them fake iphone instead of the real thingElderly commiting suicide to make life easier for their childrenCities demolishing buildings with no regard if there are people in themThis is why Yu Hua should be read - especially in today's time of internet being flooded with CCCP propaganda (THEY PUT LED LIGHTS ON BUILDINGS???? THIS IS FUTURE). He doesn't hate china, he loves it for what it is.
>>25280899>dark forest solution to the Fermi paradoxRefutes itself.Given how trust is the backbone of civilization.No severely paranoid civilization could exist since paranoia is the antithesis to civilization. Facing a stranger with cautious hopeful optimism is how all friendships all tribes all confederations all nations all empires and any future space travelling civ first forms.Dark Forest tendencies would never move that planet out of the stone age.
>>25283885>No severely paranoid civilization could exist since paranoia is the antithesis to civilization.What about in China where tech and surveillance replaces trust as the glue which keeps society together
