Yeah, it's kind of like if someone from another country did a sentimental film about the confederacy or something. Like Last Samurai really is a romanticized "lost cause" narrative. God, in a weird moment of anticipatory awfulness it even references effing Sparta FFS.
Any accusation that anything they're doing isn't actually very leftist gets hit with the universal rejoinder "You just want China to be WEAK and POOR, you want the country to FALL APART like it was in the era of the Warring States when Confucius was moralizing"
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(Confucius was before the Warring States, in the Spring and Autumn Period, but you know what I mean "If he was so smart why didn't any of his preaching actually stop the Partition of Jin from plunging the land into chaos")
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