More I research the Chinese governmen the more similar to Britain it seems tbh. Not "unknowable" or mysterious in its foreignness. Same imperialist stuff.
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I genuinely think that the difficulty of learning to read chinese is a huge contributor; a casual learning of French is possible for an English-speaker, but Hanzi? So everything is relayed through translators or not at all, keeping everything far away and inhuman
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So then the knowledge even depends on how good a knowledge of each culture your translator has and how they decide to do the translation, do they pull a Nabokovian gloss and word for word it or do they try to parse the metaphors and references?
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The number of real documentaries and books that talk about how mystical and magical the "Unknowable East" is is... Staggering.
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I just...Chinese people are people just like Westerners. They just don't want to make the effort to understand. Ugh. I hate this.
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