No, I tried buying mao's little red book but I couldn't really find it. That being said I didn't really look for it. My chinese is not good enough to read theory in it, so just reading translations for now. I did see multiple copies of Xi's book though.
Yes, i've talked in the "Zoro in china" thread on the second thought discord.
hahaha i was just in chongqing and it was 40 too. they're not called the 四大火炉 for no reason.
Also how do you do the furigana like superscript?
I just came back from china where like 5 star hotels go for $100, luxury hotels go for like $50, and like regular ones for like $25 and these prices feel even more absurd...
Hmm I don’t think i actually asked about GLF. Cultural rev he acknowledged it was a mistake probably overall, but it wasn’t like a completely bad thing but yeah that living in a time where if you said something wrong it would be very scary. Tiananmen didn’t use the term color revolution cuz we were talking in chinese but basically described it as such and like we can talk about it but the problem with talking about online is if you’re like wrong then it becomes baseless speculation and that’s not really okay. problem of national security and like being against dissident voices isn’t something unique to china either really. hong kong/taiwan were like why would they want to even have independence they’re in the grand scheme of things rather small islands and doing well under the current administration ig. i don’t remember exactly what he said but something about those lines.
so pretty much mostly in line with what i expected.
Yes probably. I asked if they were part of the communist party and they said they were part of the youth one.
i’m not sure what you mean by the “so… i’m on such a camp” could you clarify? do you mean that you are on a similar chinese government funded camp?
oopsies if i am misreading or reading too much into it but just a bit confused
Also relating to the comment below my multitotal and your response, i agree with multitotal that it’s a bit of a romanticization but also i think this can viewed as a negation of the negation. Negation of the primitive structure and the modern alienated structures for a synthesis into hopefully a better society.
That felt a bit incoherent but i’m too lazy to reword that so hopefully it’s at least somewhat understandable.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311811471_An_Introduction_to_Generative_Justice
I was reading this paper a while ago and this is Marx’s theory of alienation. When we are so alienated from the products of our labor it seems to pointless often.
The paper talks about how even under socialist economies labor is alienated to be redistributed by the state. An improvement on capitalism, but nonetheless alienated
Another way capitalism alienates us, while not directly marx’s analysis on labor, is from community. It’s so hard to have community under capitalism.
I have also had the chance to meet a pre-new china member of the cpc. He was my grandpa actually. Unfortunately he died a couple years ago and the last time I was back in china I didn’t know what a marx was…
I wish you the best of experiences though.
I personally really like to journal but even if you don't I like to prepare for interview by writing down like what i would answer to the questions. Then in the case of an interview I kinda already know where I want to go so i can focus on making myself more articulate and prose more interesting. Of course you won't cover everything you will get asked and will still need to impromptu some questions but i find i feel a lot more prepared and that helps with my anxiety.
LOL. If possible my dream is get a job for an american company in China. The living environment is just better there. Sounds like a cool experience but it's like after living in China and experiencing the light, how do you go back...