Ah, yeah usually they do unfortunately take such a stance to marx. Yup, I saw this class and knew I had to take it. no regrets.

aww… for sociology class? I know they cover marx often.

Also my professor is so cool first day he was like this class takes an anti colonial stance(and implicitly was like if you disagree then drop) and that he talks about how our uni was founded on stolen land and such.

I am ashamed to admit that the merch i got on my china trip mostly consists of... checks notes... hatsune miku, jjk, and sanrio merch.... oops.

yes, for overseas diaspora

Hmm, i feel like most abc believe china to be really nice environment wise like rest of asia but dislike the government. memes like social credit are pretty common. It’s never to the point of demonizing chinese people, i would say the most common stance is support for the people but not the government.

Unfortunately no time to do so, but maybe in the future.

Haha, i took the picture to make a similar joke about wuhu island from wii sports

LOL yes it would probably be a lot better experience with some chinese knowledge. Also if you can somehow meet a chinese person and have them show you around(maybe try a language exchange idk), that would be cool too.

Hmm... another comrade might be able to answer this better.

For the mountain that my grandparents have a home near chongqing, we took a 40 minute train ride and then rented a car and drove for like an hour and a half. It wouldn't be a place that you would really go without like knowing someone who lives there tho...

Another option is like Zhangjiajie, the avatar mountains but they're super busy i hear. For green space there is a ton throughout the city, but if you really want like a hike/nature destination i wouldn't know enough to answer.

Hm... the malls were more empty than you'd expect, except at like the super big places. I think the places locals would actually frequent and super big attractions still had a lot of people. I just remember this one mall in nanchang was mostly empty... And i've heard multiple people say the economy isn't as great in non-political situations. It's likely that the average citizen can feel that the economy isn't as growing as fast as before, but I don't ever hear "China Collapse," no one would say that china would collapse I feel.

right? it's mind blowing to me how cheap everything is in comparison. The most expensive part about my trip was my plane ticket... hopefully it goes down to precovid prices.

Personally, I feel american in that I've absorbed a lot of parts of the culture, which I think there are parts that I prefer to chinese culture as i've kinda alluded to above, but I hold more national pride for China, personally. I cheer for China in the olympics, and personally am a lot more interested in Chinese history. I'm still not sure what I fully consider myself, maybe still chinese-american?

For most ABCs I feel that they either have a very negative perception of china, or a positive perception of china with a negative perception of china. The people who were with me on the camp pretty unilaterally would be against the chinese government(no democracy, etc...) but they could just feel that the environment was just better I think.

Hmm... For example the rock climbing place I went to was a bit cheaper than the rock climbing place I usually go to(and a lot smaller) in absolute terms, but relatively it would be much more expensive. I couldn't tell you about the skiing, baking, or art studio though. My guesses is that they'd be pretty expensive for regular people. In addition, my cousin said that most locals don't frequent the super big chongqing mall that i showed, but rather just go to smaller local shops as while it's not unaffordable, it's just much more cost effective to buy things elsewhere.

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...

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...

still in china camp. got some running(while singing terrible ass karaoke w a friend but it was really fun). Hoping to get some rock climbing in before my flight(to a different part of china) tomorrow

what in particular. i detailed a bit in my other post

still at the china camp so not too much to report. slept kinda late up w friends last night but i don’t regret it. flying to fujian province later today.

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.