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    I hope this involves stuff like funding primary/secondary/tertiary education in the arts and opportunities for the display and appreciation of art such as concerts, festivals, competitions, and, museums, and not just commissioning obvious propaganda and tightening censorship. As much as I love communist media such as Minning Town and 1921, it’s not improving the image of China or inspiring cultural self-confidence in people who aren’t already pro-China. Instead, we need more contemporary and not-obviously-political works like Three Body and The Wandering Earth, Lexie Liu’s The Happy Star, and The King’s Avatar. And for traditional culture, independent creators like Dianxi Xiaoge, Chef Wang Gang, and Yin Que Shi Ting have done a million times more than anything commissioned by the out-of-touch geezers who run the propaganda department. What these all have in common is that they’re made by people who have a genuine passion in an art or craft and have the opportunity to create works on their own terms.

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      And of course, there are things that should be done to promote desirable cultural values other than through art and media. It could be things like promoting group activities, team sports, and socializing in school while reducing the harsh workloads that many students face to a reasonable level, for example.

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        Thanks for the link. It doesn’t seem like the author makes any concrete suggestions for implementing anything. Curious to see how it would translate to actual legislation. But in my admittedly amateur opinion, I think stuff like Liu Cixin’s works are a great avenue for inspiring cultural self-confidence and reinforcing socialist and Chinese values - it’s interesting to people who aren’t necessarily politically inclined and innocuous enough to make it on international platforms like Netflix, while still hinting at socialist values such as collectivism and international cooperation and making allusions to Chinese traditional culture.

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      The Battle at Lake Changjin was better than any American movie ever made, including that unwatchable piece of crap Citizen Kane, and I will die on this hill

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        mfw Westerners complain about how Lake Changjin is obvious, in-your-face propaganda that can’t be taken seriously, and can’t see the same is true of every Western war movie ever.

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          Man, those westerners are gonna absolutely die [in minecraft] when they encounter the wall-to-wall Juche wholesomeness of DPRK movies.