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Any suggestions for entry points into chinese culture (beyond the 1961 大闹天宫)? As an american, who had never met anyone from a Warsaw Pact* country until the ve

Any suggestions for entry points into chinese culture (beyond the 1961 大闹天宫)? As an american, who had never met anyone from a Warsaw Pact* country until the very late 1980s, I was very amused to run across a bemulleted late soviet boy band video (1988?) prominently including a Dick Dale and the Deltones t-shirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dezX61f3Ycg&t=87s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dezX61f3Ycg&t=87s * I had played Tetris and with Rubik's Cube, so there was a small amount of cultural influence coming the other way

PaulHoule 2y ago
(On the theme of fantastic fiction) It's remarkably hard to find good translations of classic Chinese works such as The Investiture of the Gods, though there is https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Teahouse-Retold-Investiture-Gods/dp/0595254195 https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Teahouse-Retold-Investiture-God... China is having its best success with video games like Genshin Impact but I'd highly recommend the 2010 Three Kingdoms https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL33A390995E9A7F00 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL33A390995E9A7F00 (you'd never see tough legendary warriors in western culture cry the way the heroes do in that show) Also there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_(2019_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_(2019_film) which is pretty good despite being packed with the same kind of fart jokes you'd expect in a Dreamworks movie.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  (thanks for the jade!) TIL why I also got CGI results when I had earlier been searching for Jiang Ziya. [In a Super Dimension Fortress crossover, the singer would get a chorus of おぼえていますか while the old man destroys the staircase?] Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToPsT1UF10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToPsT1UF10 EDIT: for western weeping: porque no El Cid?
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Pedantry: En silencio intensamente llorando, volvía la cabeza, los estaba mirando. https://miocid.wlu.edu/folios/01r.html https://miocid.wlu.edu/folios/01r.html

PaulHoule 2y ago

(On the theme of fantastic fiction) It's remarkably hard to find good translations of classic Chinese works such as The Investiture of the Gods, though there is https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Teahouse-Retold-Investiture-Gods/dp/0595254195 https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Teahouse-Retold-Investiture-God... China is having its best success with video games like Genshin Impact but I'd highly recommend the 2010 Three Kingdoms https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL33A390995E9A7F00 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL33A390995E9A7F00 (you'd never see tough legendary warriors in western culture cry the way the heroes do in that show) Also there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_(2019_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_(2019_film) which is pretty good despite being packed with the same kind of fart jokes you'd expect in a Dreamworks movie.

082349872349872 2y ago
(thanks for the jade!) TIL why I also got CGI results when I had earlier been searching for Jiang Ziya. [In a Super Dimension Fortress crossover, the singer would get a chorus of おぼえていますか while the old man destroys the staircase?] Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToPsT1UF10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToPsT1UF10 EDIT: for western weeping: porque no El Cid?
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Pedantry: En silencio intensamente llorando, volvía la cabeza, los estaba mirando. https://miocid.wlu.edu/folios/01r.html https://miocid.wlu.edu/folios/01r.html