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  • x8vmte4nhf7joq7p [any]
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    2 years ago

    This image is :dprk-soldier: on mobile—I think something went wrong during the WebP conversion:

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    If anyone else is having the same issue, just view the image directly without the format specifier on the end:

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    • p_sharikov [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Very little foreign literature is translated into English, especially not anything even remotely based. I've had to resort to reading Japanese socialist literature in French before.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      Ordinary World is by Lu Yao and despite winning one of China's biggest literary prizes it has not been translated. There's a TV series, though.

      Plot Against, by Mai Jia, has not been translated, but there is an English edition of one of his other novels . I think The Message might be by Mai Jia, too, but the title is generic enough that Xi may very well have been talking about another book with a similar title.

      Edit - LibGen

  • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Surprised to see Piketty on there - is he somebody I should be reading? I thought he was just a lib

    • SlashThat [any]
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      2 years ago

      He's a huge lib. He dismisses Marx while also admitting that he hasn't read him. I think he's worth reading if you're interested in the liberal view on some failures of capitalism or to keep up on what the other side thinks.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I guess the feeling I get knowing that Xi is a fellow Shakespeare Enjoyer(tm) is the same as libs when Obama tweets that he likes Imagine Dragons or whatever.

    • YuriMihalkov [comrade/them,any]
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      2 years ago

      Some more Chinese Classics and a few "Others" ranging from Oliver Twist to Les Misérables to the Federalist Papers lmao

      him (apparently) actually reading the Federalist Papers makes me think of that tweet of the guy who said that Xi needed to watch Hamilton to understand why US-Chinese relations were breaking down

      • riley
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        11 months ago

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          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            It wouldn't surprise me if Xi's seen it, it was popular in an era when a lot of western TV was being shown in China.

      • estii [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        guy who said that Xi needed to watch Hamilton to understand why US-Chinese relations were breaking down

        actually such a beautiful self-own lol