Thanks for “educating” myself, a Chinese, about how a story goes by Chinese. I wonder how many non Chinese people holding the same analytic rigorous as yours,

Thanks for “educating” myself, a Chinese, about how a story goes by Chinese. I wonder how many non Chinese people holding the same analytic rigorous as yours, claiming a story as authoritative over other interpretations, which were held by actual Chinese... That’s manifested in popular culture, like in the well received, yet awkwardly dismissive to many Chinese people, movie “The farewell”. It has this line of thought that the life of a Chinese belongs to his/her family, and so the old granny were deprived of knowing her cancer diagnose. A hilariously nonsensical idea. People were hiding from cancer diagnosis, because cancers were thought to be death sentence, and for many who were deemed financially impossible to afford the treatment, or is in a terminal state that death was inevitable, people were hidden from that to help them live a relatively less stressful last stage of their life. The nonsense of “life belongs to family” is such a fitting story goes by Chinese, according the western perspective...