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If you are looking at fiction and want to just get a general sense of Chinese society and political power struggles, author Jin Yong described his “Smiling Proud Wanderer” swordsman fiction book as a commentary on the Cultural Revolution, and really any cultural revolution.
Though these days I might argue it looks closer to America than China…
Fan translation to English is hosted as gem text on my capsule with some of his other works.
gemini://brainsocks.xyz/projects/novels/swordsman/
Dec 09 · 8 days ago
The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
— https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Menagerie-Other-Stories/dp/148142436X
Good books about China? — I've had this interest in China lately, but it's hard to find books, or documentaries, or anything that I'm looking for. Sure, there's a lot of books trying to explain the bits here and there, especially the contemporary political and economic goings on, as well as the historical and cultural overviews and such. What I'm looking for is, something that would explain the deeper things, the things that everybody would understand implicitly but wouldn't talk about, because...