July 08, 2005
China's Does Indeed Produce Pop Culture
While many pop melodies come from Japanese, HK, or Taiwan pop songs, the Mainland pop music industry is quite big. With such hits as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers (whose plot fell apart as badly as War of the Worlds'), Mainland movies are already big in America. Mainland art and fashion are booming. China has a pop culture. True, humor is deficient (I've often felt that better humor is what China needs most) and the TV shows are dull. But the fact that they read a lot of US books doesn't mean they are not culture producers; it means they are hard-working and serious about catching up, and they respect US achievements.
You think you can't silence political expression (and impose a one-child policy) without silencing (technological and artistic) creativity, but Chinese people are allowed to be, and are increasingly, creative.
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