China has a soft power deficiency

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Korea has Kpop, Japan has anime, but what does China have? Why is it hard for us to think of anything 'cool' about China, and why is that the case?
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:45 The definition of soft power
3:58 The problem: China's soft power deficiency
9:23 China's historically attractive soft power + modern influences (Douyin makeup, Genshin)
14:28 Discussion on personal experiences, China's censorship and geopolitics
20:51 Shambaugh's conclusion / Outro
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Sources/useful explanations, timestamps and (some more) of my thoughts!
- 0:52 Soft power being the ability to influence others
(the rest is on Australia's commitment to fostering their soft power but it does show a great link between people's perception of a country and the country's foreign policy goals) www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default...
- 1:04: The three pillars of soft power softpower30.com/what-is-soft-...
- 1:37 BTS bringing $5b to the SK economy www.npr.org/2021/08/06/102555...
- 1:52, 2:39 From the transcript of a super in depth interview by the CSIS (Centre for Strategic & International Studies) with some insaaaaaaaanely smart panellists (including Joseph Nye himself) as they deep dive into Korea's soft power, and its impacts on Korea's economy and the US-ROK alliance.
www.csis.org/analysis/beyond-...
3:48 HOW GOOD IS THIS QUOTE, of course I didn't come up with it myself, it's from a cracking piece I read - I think it was from this AFR article by Geoff Raby but I have since hit my free article viewing limit and I'm now paywalled lmao
www.afr.com/policy/foreign-af...
- 4:00 An exploration into China's influence being based on coercion and payment, and its recent damaging policies and approaches in influencing foreign governments
pacforum.org/publication/pacn...
- 4:36 Lucas Niewenhuis really came thru with the receipts compiling a list of international brands that have apologised to China
signal.supchina.com/all-the-i...
- 6:25 China's response and economic action to Morey's tweet showing solidarity for HK
edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/me...
- 6:46 China's annual spending of $10b on soft power
www.economist.com/graphic-det...
- 7:55 "This is China" rap
• Chinese hip-hop group ...
- 13:30 China's creative industries being much more limited in terms of how much freedom they are given vs Korea and Japan
www.e-ir.info/2020/07/03/the-...
- 13:47 Western values resonating with China's youth and President Xi Jinping's response in ordering Chinese' universities to "adhere to the correct political orientation"
www.chinafile.com/features/wh...
- 14:28 link to my tiktok lol
vt.tiktok.com/ZSRs8c43e/
- 20:51 David Shambaugh's journal article which I referenced at the end of the video summarising China's soft power deficiency, the various actions and strategies they adopted in a bid to increase it and reflections on what China should do in the future
www.jstor.org/stable/24483821
Video clips used
- 20:51 Background clip from The China Guide on KZfaq:
• Visit China: Enchantin...
Thanks for watching and thanks 2 my mates for listening to me ramble about this long enough that I could make a whole video out of it :-)
tags: video essay, cultural commentary, social commentary, internet analysis, analysis video, soft power, cultural attractiveness, east asia, korea, china, japan, east asian, kpop, bts, blackpink, koreaboo, weaboo, anime, parasite, korean cinema, korean idols, korean entertainment, anime movies, animation, manhua, donghua, your name, genshin impact, genshin, chinese animation, chinese street fashion, mxtx, tgcf, hob, danmei, mdzs, chinese, chinese novels, douyin makeup, chinese makeup, korean culture, chinese tiktok, hallyu wave, korean wave, kdrama, squid game, censorship, mina le, madisyn brown, olisunvia, aini

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@nicksardelli890 5 ай бұрын

china has tiktok and genshin impact but most people don't associate them with china

@eboniaco 4 ай бұрын

@@chinchillatwitch7234 the legend of zelda is entirely JAPANESE, nothing murican abouth them. what are you talking about?

@daiheadjai 4 ай бұрын

Tiktok is merely a medium - the thing that creates soft power is the content.

@cvlturecast 3 ай бұрын

Because that doesn’t fall under soft power. We all wear clothes that are made in china but we don’t give a fuck about china still

@angsern8455 3 ай бұрын

Tik tok has been trying to distance itself from China due to US government breathing down it's neck and genshin is just an extension of anime but owned by Chinese. They do spread some Chinese culture sometimes though.

@stolendiamond09 3 ай бұрын

Genshin maybe, but it's hard to think of something more relevant in internet culture for its association with China than TikTok, especially given how discussed it's been since the US government started targeting it.

@grandsome1 Жыл бұрын

China has a huge cultural potential, if only their government let it shine, I just read the Three Body Problem trilogy and I'm still baffled that this book series made it out of China intact and had success in its home turf too. It's one of the best book sci-fi book series of this generation.

@umumm6789 Жыл бұрын

As someone who has lived in China for 10 years. It’s just a sci-fi book calm down…..it’s not an atomic bomb

@daizenmarcurio Жыл бұрын

YESSSSS Im also reading through the three body problem. I discovered it through Quinns ideas on youtube and its easily one of my favorite books ever.

@takeshikovach5165 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, especially when they are conducting a genocide, an ethnic cleansing.

@superswaggerorgasm Жыл бұрын

Just took a gander at this series, so glad you mentioned it. Sounds awesome!

@Secret123890 Жыл бұрын

Xi won't let that happen.

@barubary4477 3 ай бұрын

It's also hard to connect socially via the internet with people in China. They can't legally access a lot of the sites we use, including KZfaq, so maybe they're also just not sharing a lot of their stuff with us either. It's really hard to do cultural exchange this way.

@Nightmare2.03 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is why I'm glad I was born in Canada. (I'm Chinese by blood) I totally agree with the exchange of culture point; it's hard to see a country's culture when censorship is literally in every piece of media from that country.

@thetreekeeper143 Ай бұрын

Wrong. You can legally access those sites but you need to pay for a VPN. Which is why so many KZfaqrs are recording from China.

@barubary4477 Ай бұрын

@thetreekeeper143 Okay, I looked it up, and you're right. It's not illegal to watch it, but it is censored and blocked, making it less accessible to most people in China. I suppose it's not the same, but functionally, I do think having big online cultural hubs like that separated from the rest of the world does hurt cultural exchange. I have students in China, and I can't send them videos or articles a lot of times that I think they'd like because they can't access the site. I can access BiliBili if they want to show me something, though.

@user-sn1fv2iv3i Ай бұрын

Have a guess why I am here as a Mainland Chinese

@user-ob2js9nr9v 19 күн бұрын

As a Chinese, I can tell you that most Chinese people are not interested in foreign Internet. First of all, most Chinese people don't speak English well. Secondly, foreign culture is no longer attractive to the Chinese, and the Chinese have even lost patience and confidence in American culture. Secondly, many Chinese people can access foreign social platforms, but they are too lazy to discuss political topics, because most Chinese people love their country, are confident in their history and culture, and are proud of it. Third, the Chinese know that what is happening in the world is that there are a lot of Chinese people moving content from the "foreign Internet" to Chinese social platforms, but in general, cultures outside of China are not attractive to the Chinese

@corgi23jumpman27 6 ай бұрын

Been in China for 5 years, It was amazing people and culture, however the government CENSORSHIP is crazy! It’s like they want you to forget what is outside of china😅 Luckily there’s VPN, although it’s illegal but it is a must for us as a foreigners.

@zacksmith5963 2 ай бұрын

Source ? Proof ?

@leqiaop1840 2 ай бұрын

as you said there are VPN in China, so it is allowed for any usage of VPN in China. Censorship is everywhere (also in YT)

@zacksmith5963 2 ай бұрын

@@leqiaop1840 nothing wrong with that

@zhibingwu7746 Ай бұрын

那是国外软件进去中国市场不遵守本国法律条约被政府限制，中国有自己的互联网，我们也可以使用vpn并不违法，只是只有年轻人才使用。

@user-zs1tu6uj4b Ай бұрын

在大陆使用VPN名义上是违法，但实际上并不违法，只要你不发布反动言论，网监并不会管理，我们翻墙出来真不是为了政治，KZfaq，INS等等，我不否定看“片”是其中一项，哈哈！中国走过谄媚于西方的阶段，这几乎是所有后发展国家都要经历的，而墙的存在则是过滤对技术，分辨是非能力较弱的人，避免被误导，而且youtube反华是有流量的，只要你说大陆不好便会获得更多流量，所有国家均有自己的国运起伏，周边附属国讨论中国没有文化输出，搞笑不？大陆不输出，怎么方便韩国说屈原是韩国，孔子是韩国，宇宙中间是韩国的...

@yaelthesnail Жыл бұрын

What I find fascinating is how the Chinese government decided to "strongly discourage" the airing of danmei-adapted dramas and donghuas just as The Untamed had become an international phenomenon. Instead of embracing that momentum and fostering it, they intentionally slammed the breaks. This would be like the government of Korea banning K-pop in 2012, just as it was really starting to be noticed in the West. Basically, they want soft power, but they also want to dictate the terms of that soft power (largely for reasons of domestic policy). But it just doesn't work like that. They smothered the spark in its infancy, and there's no telling when or if it will ever catch again.

@IvellScarlett Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I really got into The Untamed and into Danmei and Wuxia novels through that. And shortly after the Chinese government tightened its grip on media like that and many of the novels I liked got banned from their platforms.

@leeeunasfantasyhaven3930 Жыл бұрын

That's sadly very true... I'm still mourning over the fact that the actors of untamed cannot interact with each other anymore due to the government policies... 😭😭😭😭

@joshuastandstill1688 Жыл бұрын

The truth is that China culture industry is always in a messy. On the one hand, Chinese censorship is often considered too strict. And in the past 20 years, it got more stricter because government finally have time and space to focus on these things. In the early 10s, you can easily find many illegal things on Chinese internet, so does some books strongly-against government, literary and artistic works were more willing to talk about politics. But after these things got more industrialized, they behave worse and started to produce massive similar junks which doesn't have too much meanings but just for fun. They avoid to mention politics, aggressive opinions, blood, dark stories, because censorship is too sensitive. They need to consider if it can deliver a "optimistic opinion", "could it make children grows more violent", "would it have negative social influence". Censorship is kind of overprotective， which is also disliked by Chinese. The censorship allows the work to talk about serious things but it considered more. Its purpose is not letting people stop talking about anything serious but since it is easier for industries to pass it and make money, it indirectly made donghua more under-age and more like a big advertisement for toys. On the other hand, the communists do changed a lot of old negative stuff in ideology and cultural field in the last century, but many Chinese, especially the last generation, may still hold some obsolete opinions and values. The wouldn't like danmei, they would worry if their kids would become gays, who could not live a normal life, got married and have some grandson or granddaughter in the future. These parents thinks donghua are just for kids, they are just for fun, so it have negative influence on kids' study, it is harmful. So once something passed the censorship, it has to pass parents' check, or they may got public tip-offs from these parents (or competitors who pretend to be parents). And once it is noticed by the government, be classified as something has negative social influence, it is gone. Actually since 2006, the government always have a support policy to donghua industry. But it only creates massive studios living on swindling subsidies that creates nothing but shit videos which looks like it is made by graduates. And the industrialization of culture industry is another disaster process which is still continuing. Most companies just want to make money quickly, don't care what shit they made. And they don't even dare to try something new, which made the whole culture industry are full of useless junk with similar topic, plots and even characters.

@biazacha Жыл бұрын

You need to understand that a BIG part of the historical heritage was straight up destroyed when CCP assumed; the very lil that survived is simultaneously what foreigners want to see and what they do not want to broadcast. The “preserve traditional practices” is a fairly recent movement and will take time to we see the results.

@BenjaminNixon Жыл бұрын

I know I'm not adding anything here, but it really is such a baffling move. They did something similar in 2018 with Yanxi Palace. Yanxi and Untamed were actually getting positive press in the western media, which is UNHEARD of for a Chinese series. It's baffling to me that Communist Party can be so BAD at the soft power game.

@dafu7047 Жыл бұрын

I've been complaining about this for a while now, and you make very good points. Growing up as a Chinese-American, being able to speak Mandarin was never "cool". People flocked to learning Korean and Japanese, because it enables them to watch their favorite Kpop videos or Kdramas without subtitles, or watch anime and import Japanese video games without needing to wait for them to be translated. The Chinese language never commanded such cultural respect among younger generations. When people wanted to learn Chinese, it was mostly for business-related reasons. Everyone knows Chinese food and kung-fu, but these things never really drove people to learn the language or visit the country with the same passion as they do for Korean or Japanese. I remember that whenever I visit Taiwan, all the music that you hear playing in restaurants, coffee shops, and stores would either be Japanese or Korean music. Never heard Chinese music. Japan has weeaboos and Korea has koreaboos, these are well-known. But why doesn't China have any equivalents? To be honest, I was a bit salty about this growing up. Why are Japanese and Korean the cool languages to know, and nobody pursues learning Chinese? I was jealous because being able to speak Korean or Japanese was seen as "cool", while Chinese to them was "just another language". Genshin Impact was a HUGE cultural export out of China from recent years, but even it can't be completely attributed to Chinese soft power. They lean heavily into the Japanese anime aesthetics, and they even feature Japanese voice acting. A lot of gamers still don't even realize that Genshin Impact is Chinese, since they promoted the Japanese voice tracks heavily and got some A-list Japanese voice actors. A lot of players still use the Japanese voice tracks, despite the Mandarin voice track being the original artists' intention. So while yes, it is a Chinese game, it still had to ultimately rely a LOT on the soft power of Japan to achieve its success. In a way, you could say that it's not even spreading Chinese cultural power, it's spreading Japanese cultural power.

@prasanth2601 Жыл бұрын

When china becomes a top power ,people will definitely flock to learn Chinese languages and it's culture. Don't worry about it

@ohhhhm Жыл бұрын

chinese or taiwanese?

@equal5505 Жыл бұрын

@@prasanth2601 Do you have any idea when will it happen? 10 years from now? 30 years? 100 years or even longer?

@Acrnavy Жыл бұрын

It was a shock to me when I learned Genshin was from Shanghai. Hate to admit it, but all the Chinese content I consumed prior really didn’t wow me. I’ve been fascinated with China for most of my life, but most of what I learned about China was from my studies and seeing firsthand.

@dafu7047 Жыл бұрын

@@Acrnavy That's exactly that I mean. A lot of people don't know that Genshin is a Chinese game, because it relies so heavily on Japanese aesthetics and traits. Japan has anime, manga, and video games that captivated the entire world. Korea has Kpop and Kdramas. I know that we generally like to make fun of weeaboos and Koreaboos, but sometimes I wish that Chinese had an equivalent, if only to demonstrate how much cultural power they have.

@lasvegascity 7 ай бұрын

As a Korean I was wondering why she said 'manhwa' then found out Korean and Chinese words for manhwa pronounce exactly the same😂 Though we r more famous for webtoon and tend to call manwha in paper just manga

@sara.cbc92 7 ай бұрын

You are Korean and you didn't know that more than 1000 Korean words have either Chinese pronunciation or roots?

@lasvegascity 7 ай бұрын

@@sara.cbc92 Of course we know many of our words have their roots in Chinese 😂 If we include Japanese influenced (which r also Chinese influenced) I think there r more than just 1000. It's just that the three countries' pronunciation styles r so different(for instance intonation is considered important in Chinese but not in Korean and Japanese, and Japanese doesn't have final consonant unlike Korean and Chinese) many words could sound similar but rarely exactly the same.

@sara.cbc92 7 ай бұрын

@@lasvegascity Slight difference but generally sounds similar. This is only for nouns. Of cos particles, conjunctions, adverbs are different in Korean and Japanese.

@mage3690 Ай бұрын

Chinese manhwa is specifically spelled as "manhua" in English, BTW. You say it the same way and everything, but when you Google it, you can specify which country you want the results to come from. So manhua from China, manhwa from Korea, and manga from Japan.

@Ficmon Ай бұрын

tones...

@vanillabeanlady 6 ай бұрын

I was just discussing w/ my partner the other day how I think a big reason Americans have a negative view of China is because all most people hear about it is political news. We can see people from other Asian countries on social media and get to understand them and see their culture. I have been seeing more animes coming out of China that I enjoy, like Psychic Princess, so hopefully in time we'll be able to enjoy more Chinese culture.

@foodparadise5792 6 ай бұрын

The whole China threat began in 1800 from Britain...China was an economic superpower most of the time for the last 2000 years. Japan was a proxy of the British which launched war of aggression toward China in 1895 and during WWII, in hope of weakening China. Now the US pretty much inherited the Great Britain Empire, and took over the job of containment of China. Bad mouthing China just another tactic which through the use of media. But their evil little plot is falling apart...China recovered from WWII and on the way having the strongest military in 10 years.

@zonansg4212 3 ай бұрын

Understanding or no understanding of culture. Americans know all too well that chinese government are predatory scumbags

@downrightmike 3 ай бұрын

The real problem is the CCP erased their culture and heritage. Then they are back tracking now and trying, but it is saccharine and not real sugar.

@unkle.k 3 ай бұрын

Sara.cbc92 is from Chinese-taipei shows why inferiority complex never cool.

@yeusean 2 ай бұрын

@@zonansg4212 the world knows US politics are 1000 times worst.

@joshuahillerup4290 9 ай бұрын

Hong Kong had a fair amount of soft power in the 90s, and it's amazing how much China squandered that despite them seeming to really want to adopt it

@magnetospin 9 ай бұрын

Hong Kong's soft power(films and stuff) pretty much disappeared after the 90s. Most of the talents moved to mainland to develop the market. There wasn't much left after that for China to make use of.

@12397348 9 ай бұрын

That doesn't make sense, Taiwan’s soft power has not been as dominant as before in Asia since 2008. So I think the decline of Hong Kong's soft power is about the market scale and regional economics, but not the political situation.

@doujinflip 7 ай бұрын

The HK film scene basically died with the end of British rule. The lack of appeal of modern China was a net drop to what soft power HK had globally, as its media turned towards catering to the market of its new ownership.

@eb.3764 7 ай бұрын

this was definitely in relation to the Handover.

@Jayerbruh 7 ай бұрын

i agree as a hongkonger i was proud when i saw bruce lee or martial art references and the portrayal of hk as a huge economic powerhouse in western films. even tho a lotta times it shows the rough, crime ridden but neon light filled streets it still puts the city out on the map and entices people on how HK is cool and worth visiting in its own way

@sylviazhang3086 Жыл бұрын

As a Chinese, I genually wish this video to go viral on Chinese platforms, so that they can see it, understand and realize the problem

@bobl4146 Жыл бұрын

As a Chinese,I am sure that if this video goes viral in Chinese forum,she will be insulted and harassed

@sylviazhang3086 Жыл бұрын

@@bobl4146 isn’t this phenomena everywhere on social media lol

@GL-iv4rw Жыл бұрын

They don't realize? That means Chinese must be extremely arrogant or oblivious. How about put it on Chinese platform and tell us what the reaction is

@brazzif6285 Жыл бұрын

I don't think he sees that as a problem. China will undoubtedly be the first world power. In addition, the Chinese influence already exists in certain areas of pop culture. In particular the company Tencent which bought several big video game companies like riot game. If it's really an image problem and the other Asian nations are beginning to overshadow the Chinese giant, he would just have to print money and buy back part of this market.

@equal5505 Жыл бұрын

@@brazzif6285 china will never have soft power of their own as long as notorious ccp still at top.china have very bad images internationally so with bad images there will sure no soft power bcs a country will have soft power when international people love that country

@isabellashum9170 6 ай бұрын

Great video. I appreciate how you are so good at connecting things together to form a bigger picture as well as zoom into individual illustrative examples from what’s happening at a bigger scene. Thank you for the food for thought.

@lovetrustandpixiedust 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for this in-depth take on East Asian soft power, Aini! I personally think that Chinese manhuas, dramas, and web novels have a lot of potential to shape the current cultural landscape alongside anime and K-pop, and they could be a very strong cultural export if only they weren't so heavily sanitized that they lose their original essence. Which is a shame, because as part of the Chinese diaspora, I find it sad that anything remotely Chinese loses its 'cool factor' compared to Korean or Japanese cultural exports. All these countries have a lot to offer in terms of culture -- old or new -- and the world would be richer if we can embrace them all without the interference of political inclinations and biases.

@doujinflip 3 ай бұрын

It's the domestic politics _in China_ that prevent it from being more of a family heritage or transactional interest, as the Party's demand for sterilized thought limits modern Chinese culture to distorted and inauthentic "safe" depictions of itself.

@001suisen4 2 күн бұрын

The popularity of KPOP is highly exaggerated. Koreans living in America, Europe, and Japan praise it excessively. There are many truly artistic "masterpieces" in Japanese and Western music. However, in KPOP, it is only a business, and there are no "masterpieces" that will be loved by people 50 or 100 years from now. KPOP shows the twisted human nature of Koreans well. It has nothing to do with art, it is simply a product of business and desire.

@tzuioo69 Жыл бұрын

As a massive Wuxia and Xianxia novels fan, i'm glad you mentioned the novels space. Chinese novels are probably the biggest powerhouse when it comes to internet novels. And as someone who has red a unhealthy amount of them i can tell you that it serves as soft power rather well. And surprisingly can get away with certain amounts of speech freedom, although not too much. (It could be translators just leaving it out). And in general i think that the mythical stories and tales of China have so much potential which unfortunately is not shown to the west in the capacity it should be shown in my opinion.

@sblbb929 Жыл бұрын

Yes! Recently got into Wuxia and also am a big fan of Chinese sci-fi (the Three-Body Problem specifically). It's sad that they're not known at all where I live. I think seperating the chinese Internet from the rest of the world has really delayed some really great stories and worlds from being appreciated sooner and influencing other countries. The same way for some western modern genres, like Wild West cowboy movies, were spread even more by being reflected in some japanese animes for example

@prunusserrulata7686 Жыл бұрын

They censor lots of bl novels (danmei) though. Also if I'm not wrong, My Iyashikei Game was supposed to be a full-on horror type of novel rather than the VR-horror kinds if there's no censorship

@honey3693 Жыл бұрын

They censor many things (like below the neck etc.). They also have this sort of 'China is the best why other country copy us etc. sentiments' hahaha (I feel like it may be to increase social credit??) but say other than those I am really a big reader of Chinese light novels ranging from romance to danmei to mystery anything. Unlike japanese and korean their availability and accessibility on the internet is massive (and much easier to google translate). I think because they have a large population many people also have big brains and imagination. I really hope their literature industry will prosper more and more.

@Maya-sv1pz Жыл бұрын

censorship is ruining the art though. also there's too many dramas and arts telling the same story it's getting really stale. It's not like China lacks creative powerhouses, e.g. Liu Cixin, they are just suppressed into mundanity and mediocrity.

@N1ghthavvk Жыл бұрын

Personally I haven't read many web novels (only two that had adaptations as web "comics"). And in comparison to that, I've read quite a few manhua (CH), manhwa (KO), and manga (JP). It really feels like the chinese stories are way too often some kind of variation of the cultivation genre where women don't play an active role and are relegated to eye-candy (which are then censored making it even worse lol). Not really my cup of tea... The translations also seem to be of worse quality. In comparison, manga have way more detailed story lines and variations, while most of them are not using color (which is sad). They're also incredibly "wordy" and have more text than picture sometimes. Manhwa on the other hand are colored and more succinct (though probably because colored drawing takes more effort, there's a few reused assets which I haven't noticed yet in manga). I just can't read chinese manhua... they got stale and off-putting way too fast. It's funny how you can immediately tell from which country the web comic is produced.

@sailorraine2676 Жыл бұрын

Growing up, I always loved Kpop, and I remember getting really into c-pop and c-dramas. Looking back now, I realize how many were actually just Taiwan and Hong Kong, rather than mainland China

@Shaquiifa Жыл бұрын

When Google banned China from accessing its service, China lost the most popular way to export information, culture, media etc. Things can come in, but nothing goes out. From then on what is happening to China is mostly covered by the media, which can be censored and altered themselves.

@kevinlification Жыл бұрын

Too bad hong Kong and Taiwan today are pathetic. The future of Chinese soft power will be with China even with Chinese government censorship.

@TheExtraterrestrial99 Жыл бұрын

Because mainland Chinese entertainment industry start quite late, around 2006-2010,from there, it truly start. Prior to that, there is only some singer or celebrity/drama, and mostly depandant on cooperation between mainland, HK and Taiwan, not as well build industry as it is now. Before that, the singer and more mostly just singing in bar or stage, no really TV show or variety show to attend, such as Zhang Chu, Liang Long, Dou Wei and more... Before this, everyone from mainland that really want to be a celebrity, they go to HK. For example, Faye Wang. And a lot more are born in China and go HK since young such as Raymond Lam, Michael Miu and more.

@alexfrank5331 Жыл бұрын

@@TheExtraterrestrial99 China has had its own massive entertainment industry for a long time. The problem is that a lot of it was either such obvious propaganda, so that it's just too cringe. Or it was really low quality imitation of what's popular in HongKong, so... who would want that if they can choose the original Hong Kong version? China always had a rich pool of talented singer, actors, writers, etc. The production being government-directed was what kept it down.

@alexfrank5331 Жыл бұрын

@@TheExtraterrestrial99 You can look at Russia's current entertainment industry and media, and compare it to how it was 2 years ago. It's night-and-day difference. Sometimes it's the same exact artists, but now they're semi-forced to make these extreme cringe and obvious-sell-out and it just feels souless. It's the same thing with China back in the days.

@lLvupKitchen 17 күн бұрын

As a Korean, I feel like China's soft power potential is really really high. I've seen some of the brands that's hot in main cities in China, and it's super cool. But I feel like the government's and some of the people's hegemonic stance towards other culture makes foreigner's reluctant to acknowledge and embrace the rich culture.

@catsNcode 3 күн бұрын

what do you mean hegemonic? LOL. US: 800 + international military bases China: 1 Koreans have no problem being friends with the biggest hegemony in the world. What you're missing is the billions the U.S. spends on anti-China propaganda.

@SR-kh6yq Жыл бұрын

I’m a long-time cdrama watcher but I think in recent years the quality of dramas coming from Mainland China has steadily declined due to excessive censorship and forced patriotic and “positive” motifs shoehorned in the plot. The whole industry is also so corrupted and manipulated by capitals that it feels like there’s no room anymore for real talent and interesting stories. Dramas and all that comes with them (fandom, music, sponsorships) could be one of China’s main soft power weapons but their volatility and precariousness prevents that. When actors get “canceled” and dramas get pulled off the platforms every day, often for no reason, foreign viewers will turn to more stable sources of entertainment (like I’ve turned to kdramas instead).

@joelgarcia3354 Жыл бұрын

I’m learning mandarin, could you recommend me some Chinese dramas? Especially BL

@SR-kh6yq Жыл бұрын

@@joelgarcia3354 For BL adaptations, I recommend The Untamed, Winter Begonia and my favorite one Word of Honor (which was subject to said cancellation but is still available on international sites). Police/thriller: Reset, The Bad Kids, Someday or One Day (from Taiwan) Historical/palace: Nirvana in Fire (both 1 and 2), Ode to Joy (this is also a bit sci-fi), Scarlet Heart, Story of Yanxi Palace Other genres: Hikaru no Go (a manga adaptation), Cross Fire (about gaming) There are also a lot of BL adaptations that have been filmed in the last couple of years but will probably never see the light at this point... which is sad because I was really looking forward to some of them like Mo Du or Chasing the Light

@Xtremzer0 Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more. Since Xi got into power the censorship has gotten 100 times worse. As have the state-sponsored internet brutality by Pinkies (小粉红or ccp supporters). The red line is so thin and most importantly very vague and ambiguous. For example, a very good video uploader channel called PaperClip 回形针got cancelled because it did not include Taiwan in the map of China in one of their vids and one of their employees had allegedly ties to foreign capitals. Or 王志安 Zhian Wang, used to be one of china’s largest independent Journalists with 100 million views on each videos, got banned randomly one day without any reasons or justification. (Btw he is on youtube so have a look) So for chinese like myself who know exactly the reason why China is in the current shitshow, it’s quite laughable to see this kinda video discussing china like some normal country. How come nobody talk about softpower for North Korea or Saudi Arabia? Well those are the exact countries China is heading now since Xi just got his third term. 海外中国人求求你别海外爱国了，回去建设祖国，享受全过程民主，动态清零静态封控多好

@icedespresso3380 Жыл бұрын

same as hollywood . it went woke .

@AmIWhatIAm Жыл бұрын

True about forced patriotism. Can you believe a drama about how a teen wants to win a ping pong world championship and liking a girl, became a plot for war and survival? Turned me off to continue the show... Edit: If anyone's wondering what the name is, it's called 《夺金》

@oliviaw589 Жыл бұрын

Li Ziqi is an interesting case to me -she was kind of the bastion of Chinese soft power on KZfaq, and succeeded because her content was so divorced from modern Chinese life, a traditional fantasy...she managed to walk that line by simultaneously promoting traditional/traditional ways of life while still being creative and visually appealing. She was selling that fantasy equally to Western and Chinese audiences.

@hardcoreemomusicgurl Жыл бұрын

Sadly she is under dispute with her agency/company. I love liziqi too but she portrays a romanticised version of farm work and the rural areas. Nevertheless, her vids r still beautiful and great at advocating chinese culture, esp in terms of cuisine and craftwork ☺

@itsOVER9999 Жыл бұрын

@@hardcoreemomusicgurl idk why everytime theres chinese soft power begin very popular theres always problem , another example chinese drama wuxia boylover like the untamed its very very popular with very good rating in the world this should be new chinese soft power ,but then stupid CCP ban BL content and the result chinese drama getting worst ,CCP k1lling chinese creativity tbh they bunch of old man dont understand what the world want , if they smart openminded the world would respect it ,but they choose to be hated

@annierminx Жыл бұрын

@@hardcoreemomusicgurl I mean, rural work is already romanticized by many, even cottagecore falls there

@jellyfishnymph6271 Жыл бұрын

@@annierminx I forgot which video I watched said this, but the person said Li Ziqi is literally cottagecore, just in Chinese. Lol

@piggypoo Жыл бұрын

Diangxi Xiage >

@LukeHariono 6 ай бұрын

Super helpful and thought provoking video, Thanks! Im from indonesia and currently studying in china and have always been curious about this

@eglantinepapeau1582 7 ай бұрын

this was a great watch , thank you so much aini 💁‍♀

@LoliPolice-bf7mw 9 ай бұрын

Kpop and Anime are super influential here in the US. I work at a fast food chain right now and every 10th drive thru guest has an anime shirt on and hearing Kpop music on the radio isn't too uncommon anymore.

@zawaliki6208 9 ай бұрын

我想动漫大多数是日本更有影响力

@thumpertorque_ 9 ай бұрын

What city do you live in because my suburb is redneck af and I don't even feel comfortable listening to foreign music with people around.

@TheWanderer-qw9hz 6 ай бұрын

@@zawaliki6208 Duh obviously the producer country will be more affected by it's domestic products 😕

@selohcin 4 ай бұрын

LOL, you must be in California. I assure you it's not like that in the vast majority of the country.

@LoliPolice-bf7mw 4 ай бұрын

@@selohcin I live in Cleveland, Ohio. I would never subject myself to California again.

@rueluxprince6982 Жыл бұрын

An added point, Chinese danmei and period costume dramas are holding the down the fort in the popular cultural exports arena. The associated Western fandom may not be as big as kpop or anime, but it's still sizeable and has a large space to grow. Except that China just recently banned their live action BL dramas, and heavily curtailed period dramas to focus more on propaganda shows. So like, on one hand they're whining about the lack of their cultural influence, on the other, they are literally shutting down the areas that foreigners like.

@danielzhou2972 Жыл бұрын

LITERALLY if china exploited the bl/danmei genre just IMAGINE the success. The Untamed already proves how lucrative the market is, but the government's just too homophobic to care.

@rueluxprince6982 Жыл бұрын

@@danielzhou2972 Oh yeah, China has the distinct advantage of being able to produce period dramas at a much higher quality than its neighbours, intersect that with a long winding BL plot of magic and monsters and the West gobbles it up. But no, the CCP is to stubborn to capitalize on it.

@euneiros Жыл бұрын

Bl dramas arent that great tbh.

@Vauataf3346 Жыл бұрын

Whats BL?

@boypilledmanmaxxing Жыл бұрын

@@Vauataf3346 boy love

@a--------------- 6 ай бұрын

Since the younger generation are so use to Korean and Japanese and literally grew up with that media. It’ll take a few generations before China can begin to slowly assert their soft power, China started too late.

@leonfa259 16 күн бұрын

China has 10 times as many people, the issue is that they filter everything that is controversial and that makes everything boring. I understand that they are very concerned to keep tensions under control since it is a huge empire, but the paranoia seems more damaging to them. There is hardly any non government sanctioned exchange between China and anywhere else.

@dampsok 3 ай бұрын

It's been a year since Aini came into our lives! Congratulations on how far you've come, and I look forward to years more of your insightful content.

@Rosie_macaroni Жыл бұрын

i like how with no introduction this is your first video, gets straight to the point and you got this massive influx of viewers immediately lol

@Radextremlowspecgamer01 Жыл бұрын

exactly lol

@santoryu2753 Жыл бұрын

Her tiktok is like couple of months old and have good amount of followers for starting out with only 4 videos.

@snook.1 Жыл бұрын

Well, you know. It's all of the "ChInA iS oN tHe BrInK Of ToTaL cOlLaPsE" boosting China as a keyword.

@kcong3520 Жыл бұрын

@@santoryu2753 whats her tiktok

@KremsonKhan Жыл бұрын

thats crazu didt know it was even possible with a single video!

@NB-iq1rg Жыл бұрын

It's interesting, this topic isn't very mainstream despite many east Asians noticing the clear soft power discrepancy between China, Japan, and South Korea. I'm Japanese, and it's definitely extremely noticeable how differently I was treated and perceived by westerners, compared to my Chinese American schoolmates and friends. Genshin was a good example of skewed perception; despite being Chinese made, developed and distributed, it is perceived from a Japanese viewpoint by many in the west, perhaps due to the art style, and with a lot of players using Japanese voice over. It's truly a shame, I think Chinese culture itself is so rich and historically deep, yet China is generally perceived as "anti western" due to the CCP.

@UniquelyUnseen Жыл бұрын

I often hear Westerners say "omg Taiwan is the REAL CHINA"... Meanwhile, none of them listen to Taiwanese music, none of them take up learning traditional Chinese, Taiwan is only covered in Western media if there's some kind of danger. Taiwan has preserved some (not all) aspects of traditional culture you would assume they'd gravitate towards, but that's not the case. ofc modern TW and mainland culture are different, but they have common roots.

@scholarssolutions6735 Жыл бұрын

@@UniquelyUnseen Yeah Taiwan doesn’t do any better in soft power despite being a “democracy”. In fact, I’d argue China is slightly better than Taiwan - Chinese dramas at least have some niche fanbase (still nothing compared to Korean dramas). While censorship does play a role, there’s more to it as to why China is not successful with soft power.

@angrygopnik2317 Жыл бұрын

I'm from China and I didn't even know Genshin was Chinese due to its name. If pronounced in Chinese, it would be called YuanShen or YuenSun. But in Japanese it is indeed pronounced 'Genshin'. Had they made the name YuanShen, then I think most people would know it's a Chinese made game.

@ryanweible9090 Жыл бұрын

@@UniquelyUnseen i mean, it is hard to separate geopolitics. i personally like chinese culture and try to be open minded, but of japan, korea and china, the geopolitics are, two allies and one country that routinely makes threats at us. of course i dont blame the people, but it does make a difference if i'm going to invest in a culture, if i could safely go there. japana and south korea, sure no worries, China...maybe if im on good behavior and they dont read any of my post history.. effectively China is Russia.

@Alias_Anybody Жыл бұрын

@@UniquelyUnseen The PRC has maybe 40x as many people. If they just have equal influence that would already be a huge L. There's also no hypocrisy in thinking one's better than the other while not giving much of a damn about either.

@taiwanisacountry 18 күн бұрын

As a sinologist I know how amazing Chinese culture is, but I also know how it is being kept inside of China by the authorities. If they allow for free expression then they no longer have the thought control that they seek, and social stability might be affected.

@FuckTheWorld95c 7 ай бұрын

really nice essay/vid couldnt argue with these solid points

@avgft3419 Жыл бұрын

As someone who is Chinese born Canadian. The influence of other East Asian cultures is very apparent, as both anime and K-pop are widely popular here. As far as any sort of Chinese media, or influence goes, there's only bubble tea which was invented by Taiwan and Americanized Chinese food.

@haruyanto8085 Жыл бұрын

I can give you 3 examples of Chinese soft power in the west that out revenues K-pop and anime combined, Riot Games, Tencent and Hoyoverse, those three gaming companies alone generate more revenue than K-pop and anime industries combined

@whitegoose2017 Жыл бұрын

@@haruyanto8085 Yeah but the games 'they make' aren't really designed and made by the Chinese. Like I know for a fact that the studio GGG which is owned by Tencent and the latter doesn't have anything to do with development. Mobile gaming is huge in China, but not many really outside of China care about that. In a way games are a cultural influence on people and if we measure soft power in this way China has none. I don't know a single Chinese game. I know intellectual property that is owned by Chinese companies, but really I don't know, if there's a single big game that is Chinese worth mentioning and like I said mobile games aren't really big outside of China.

@Rex-ww4cw Жыл бұрын

@@whitegoose2017 Hoyoverse is though. Genshin Impact is made by the Chinese in China, not like other studio where the game is created outside China. And Genshin Impact do become one of the biggest game in and even outside China. PUBG mobile do is a big thing in Asia(outside China), but not so much in other continents. Genshin Impact however, it is a big thing not only in Asia, they also managed to break the European and American market. The game is only just 2 years old and is already one of the highest grossing game in the world

@Rex-ww4cw Жыл бұрын

@@whitegoose2017 they will be a game called "black myth: Wukong" release in 2023. They do show some gameplay already and it is pretty cool. We still don't know much of it. Maybe the overall gameplay is sucks. But I have high hope for this mainly because when genshin impact first release it's trailer, people has a mix feeling for the game until the game release and they're actually surprised of how good the game is.

@whitegoose2017 Жыл бұрын

@@Rex-ww4cw MMORPG market is oversaturated. There is no future there. There's already BDO, WOW, FF and a lot of other smaller ones.

@Tamaki742 Жыл бұрын

I remember my Chinese friend telling me about this one c - drama that's supposed to be about gaming and e - sports. Problem is it's made around the time China started restricting gaming so they couldn't go through with making it around that theme. What they ended up doing is editing it in post to make it about... Internet safety. Which leads to apparently a scene where the character's parents argued to them that "there's no future in internet safety industry", which makes much less sense but also much more hilarious.

@bbbzhong4166 Жыл бұрын

Luhan

@HoangTran-wu6se Жыл бұрын

Lol, so true, I remember watching a series about a girl joining a League of legend professional team.

@jogabonitoo 11 ай бұрын

China has been ruining their image for centuries. It's too late now. The world hates China and will continue to do so. That will never change and China can only blame themselves. I have never seen a Chinese study hard in school and are usually the rudest/loudest kids in class and out in public. Koreans and Japanese are confident for a reason, China is arrogant for no reason. Just stating facts.

@DevDev-dm3st 10 ай бұрын

is it the king's game? Like I read that novel in all of it the heard there was gonna be anime about it however it I never heard about it anymore. Is it that?

@Tamaki742 10 ай бұрын

@@DevDev-dm3st Nope, definitely not King's Game, it's live action.

@Cloudsandcurls1303 2 ай бұрын

I am not saying that it’s fair , but where I live, contemporary China is synonym for cheap. Many Chinese families opened markets that sell cheap (and sometimes counterfeit) wares, all you can eat cheap restaurants, cheap hair and nails salons etc. then there’s apps like T*mu that sell very cheaply. And so where I live, Japan is seen as a classy country, Korea is seen as a fashion country, but China is the cheap Country.. and there’s no soft power in cheap, because it’s not aspirational. Again, I understand this is a generalization, but I wonder if it’s a generalization that other countries have too, and that might contribute to less soft power.

@sara.cbc92 2 ай бұрын

Korea is a fashion country? That would be Japan. LOL, name me some famous world renowned Korean fashion designers or luxury labels. Korea is known for used and knockoff Italian goods in Myeongdong ^^

@cheintze1 Жыл бұрын

I remember the Chinese mall I went to in Saudi Arabia. It had Chinese propaganda everywhere, a Confucian Institute, and a bunch of stores selling knock-off brands. The place was always empty, and the workers just stood at attention and grinned behind the counters waiting for customers that would never come. China's PR/soft power attempts always come off as so creepy and bizarre, like someone produced them with a gun to their head.

@sillycookie 10 ай бұрын

Exactly. It's hardcore manufactured in a way that's deeply unsettling. It doesn't come from people expressing ideas in crazy creative ways, it's made from fear based motivation to fan the government's ego. If it doesn't fit the government's likes, it's crushed immediately. So we get hyper-capitalism propaganda slop instead of something from the people themselves, which is something I've wanted for a long long time.

@glowndark1 10 ай бұрын

That store is probably stupid idea, but would you even care to step in if you were told that Chinese government is pure evil and the Chinese people are rude and horrible with no manner? is that really the case? have you been to China? but this is what in everybody's head because the west hate China simply because western oligarchs cannot put China into their pocket because of socialism and communism which they thought they can change initially but failed. They still manage to destroy China via their MSM so they can own the big population to suck everything out from them like they did to Americans and others whom they have compromised. What do you think of all these homelessness phenomenon?

@JordanJumpin 10 ай бұрын

its no different from the insidious capitalist propaganda you see in the west. you may not find it weird because you grew up with it but its wild to outsiders

@wahidpawana424 10 ай бұрын

It's funny that Chinese that were not born in China are more proud of their and better at showcasing thier culture then their China born cousins.

@Gabrielle.E623 10 ай бұрын

im Chinese but the last sentence got me lmao🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣im screaming😂😂😂😂😂

@pixierainbow7 Жыл бұрын

As a Chinese-American, I've definitely noticed how people are less interested or enthusiastic when I respond that I'm Chinese instead of Korean or Japanese. Happy to see it discussed about in such technical terms.

@irinasylva Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@good-tn9sr Жыл бұрын

it’s cause of ccp bro

@psychoticdropshots4165 Жыл бұрын

there are koreans that dont even watch kdramas or listen to kpop.

@guxiangsupremacist9572 Жыл бұрын

@@psychoticdropshots4165 yeah, I'm korean and I prefer chinese entertainment over korean entertainment lol

@slee2695 Жыл бұрын

@@psychoticdropshots4165 lmao if you go to china be prepared for super racism

@lz4737 6 ай бұрын

This is a great point. After so much upgrade for their "hardware" in China, now it is time to give more focus on the "software" aspect.

@hosschin9290 6 ай бұрын

I learned a lot, great video.

@blue7609 Жыл бұрын

I think an important reason why China struggles to create a soft power is because the Chinese government want others countries to be influenced by their culture but they're also unwilling to be influenced by other cultures and this plays a massive part in them not being able to create a soft power. The people of Japan and South Korea have access to the internet and are able to see western media and culture and be influenced by it and are able to communicate with us. Vice versa, we have access to learning about a lot of Japanese and South Korean media and culture and are able to be influenced by it and communicate with the people who live there. These interactions are what help to create soft power. One of the biggest ways that BTS became popular is by using youtube and using English subtitles in a lot of their content to appeal to western viewers. They also changed their music style to fit in with western music trends. And their fanbase used social media to spread their popularity. But china isn't able to have these interactions with the west because of the control and censorship over their internet. Kpop has heavy music and fashion inspiration from other cultures. Their music evolution has been influenced by hip hop and EDM and other musical styles that were popularized in western countries, which might also be an example of Korea's music trends being influenced by western music trends. Some of their fashion styles and aesthetics have been influenced by western trends as well and vice versa. There are also a lot of anime's and mangas that are set in other countries and that portray other cultures in them. For example "jojo's bizarre adventure" which takes place in england, america, egypt, italy etc and the creator used the western fashion industry to create the iconic outfits. There are also mangas/animes that have been inspired by stories and mythologies from other cultures as well as from their own culture. Because they have shown the ability to accept influence from other cultures, it may be why it is also easy for other cultures to accept them. And because we have easy access to buying and watching animes, mangas, kpop by using the internet, this also increases the popularity of those things because people have the ability to talk about it, learn about it and appreciate it Even Genshin Impact has regions that are based on different real countries and their cultures. If the Chinese government refuses to accept influences from other cultures but still want their own culture to influence others, this kind of hypocrisy and double standard is ruining their ability to create a soft power. And their refusal to let their people freely use the internet and have freedom of speech is also preventing them

@manai2683 Жыл бұрын

Right, this too. I've not expressed it in my own comment but their reluctance to be affected by other cultures is playing against them as well. Both Japan and S.Korea has a history of adopting other cultures immensely, they both had no choice honestly, first from China then from the West. Japan more eager than Korea, hence opening up faster, but S.Korea went a lot of revolutions to understand they needed to adapt to survive. This created a mix of influx of ideas/genres combined with their original culture, resulting in diverse creations that were also uniquely their own thing. Generally speaking the more melting pot a coutnry is the more soft power they seem to have. The US has obviously led in this regard, exporting their culture absolutely everwhere. Korea and Japan are less racially diverse, but mentally they have opened up increadibly since their modernization. We cannot ignore the innumerous potentials of mixing cultures when it comes to soft power and artistic innovations. China already has the base and backbone, and the fertile population and potential idea factories. If they could just open up not just economically but culturally as well.

@CalmClamFam Жыл бұрын

It’s so sad because between the 70s-early 2000s, Chinese culture was gaining popularity in America with the allure of martial arts, food, movies, pandas, etc. Firefly (a show released in 2005) even had Mandarin Chinese as a universal language in its universe because it was “a way to depict a futuristic integrated culture.” At that time, Chinese influence completely outshined other Asian countries. Nowadays, China is preventing organic growth of its own culture. Since the Chinese government is irrationally strict in preserving the “purity” of its culture, they are rejecting creativity and the overall conversation of new ideas. New ideas that could have it compete and dominate against other East Asian cultures again.

@jjw3046 Жыл бұрын

It's not just refusal to accept Western influence though, Chinese culture itself is just too conservative (China, Taiwan, Singapore, etc.). Especially when it comes to depicting sex or graphic violence, that's a kind of artistic self-censorship that even democratic countries are guilty of. Whereas with Japanese culture, for example, even Westerners think that certain Japanese movies are way too extreme or weird. The good thing about not being afraid to be extreme and weird is that at least you're original, that's how you generate a cult following. Point is: all this was inherent to Japanese culture, if it were a western influence then Japan wouldn't have been an innovator in the horror genre for instance.

@stevenaguilera9202 Жыл бұрын

You misunderstand what soft power even is. The governments DO NOT "create" soft power; governments don't create culture. Soft power is cultivated by the people of China, NOT it's government.

@sori6196 Жыл бұрын

Yes! This was one of the main reasons that came to mind for me. It seems like Korean and Japanese cultures are open to dialoguing , interacting, sharing, with outsiders, and that in turn makes us open our hearts and minds to them as well. In simple terms, I feel like they are extending open arms and wanting to be friends.

@yinssleepydiaries380 Жыл бұрын

This was so interesting! As a Chinese-european person I feel really sad that the chinese can’t creatively express themselves… Like I’m not even pro america or china for that matter, it’s just sad that the average person has to compensate for that…

@aini_ Жыл бұрын

i'm so glad you enjoyed this vid and found it interesting!! it genuinely is such a shame, as i think creativity is so integral to our development as a society and it is able to transcend language and cultural barriers. we'll never know what could have been for all the projects that got altered or censored, but i'm hopeful for a future where there are lesser restrictions and a greater exchange of creative works from china and the rest of the world :)

@bayenne5b Жыл бұрын

Can you explain what stops them from doing so? Some days ago they uncovered 80+ Chinese police stations in Europe, is that why perhaps?

@yinssleepydiaries380 Жыл бұрын

@@bayenne5b basically if one wants art to become successful especially on an international level, you often need money to get funded. But if the government doesn’t support creative businesses that don’t directly make propaganda for them, that kind of stifles the chance of becoming successful as an artist. Just look at kpop companies, if they weren’t as supported by the government as they are they wouldn’t have gotten as much international success. Hope this answers your question bc I’m not sure if this is what you meant🤡

@bayenne5b Жыл бұрын

@@yinssleepydiaries380 hmm yeah kinda, but isn't it also difficult for a European artist for example? Because I have a company (I'll compare that to selling art) in Europe and I must say that it was/is very difficult to become "known" even when nobody tries to censor me (you could argue that Google censored me in the beginning because I don't pay ads and the website was young => had no credibility yet). The government also doesn't support me so every form of success only came/comes from me literally sending 1000+ mails to people I know will care at least slightly about my services. I'm sure that if you get completely censored online it will be even more difficult, but sending personal emails and visiting companies is where the real money/relations come from and idk if governments also stop that part, that would be pretty sick if it were the case

@bayenne5b Жыл бұрын

@@yinssleepydiaries380 i like your honest video, hope your depression gets better ❤️ you are pretty btw :x

@Anubisdream1 Ай бұрын

I spent a month in Hong Kong and posted a lot about my positive experiences there. What I remember was friends in the United States (where I'm from) being quite surprised and saying they had not really ever wanted to go there and my posts were changing their mind. I have definitely noticed what you are saying from talking to people about China.

@GeoScorpion 3 ай бұрын

I just discovered your channel with this video. You tackled a difficult subject well and I was impressed by the way you presented things. I'll definitely be checking out your other videos. Good job!

@AglajaEos Жыл бұрын

I dropped my jaw when you mentioned this is only your second video, it popped up on my homepage and I thought this had to be a long-established essay channel because of how natural and captivating you are and how your arguments flow well. Keep on with such work, and thank you!

@andynonymous6769 Жыл бұрын

Bro this is her second video? Well done for her!

@MelisaenHongKong Жыл бұрын

The moment she said the word “CCP“ I know she is about to say a bunch of Anti China Propaganda the actual word is “Communist Party of China “ and it should be “CPC” but Western Media like to call it “CCP” that way just for easily impressive people that are ready to listen to whatever anyone says on the Internet . China’s Orwellian Social Score Credit System doesn’t produce an actual score or assessment, it’s just a Rating system which is common everywhere in the World including in the US . To see wether what you are selling is clean or not, to spot fraud or public offence, it also includes pollution, and so on. Stop lying and stop the lies.

@AglajaEos Жыл бұрын

@@MelisaenHongKong you wrote a lot of words to say something completely useless. It takes one episode of one Chinese drama or webtoon to realise how heavily propaganda influences them. That’s absolutely natural and it’s easy to spot because we in the West have propaganda as well. I’m a communist, I think it’s important to be realistic though. I suggest you adopt a more pleasant approach because you are going to persuade people of the exact opposite just because of how arrogant and obnoxious you are. Bye.

@andynonymous6769 Жыл бұрын

@@MelisaenHongKong does china filter all its media so that its citizens aren’t able to hear any criticism towards the government?

@diamond82737 Жыл бұрын

i thought it was her first

@KeoTsang Жыл бұрын

I'm genuinely surprised this is your first video. The arguments are solid and the presentation on the topic is captivating to say the least, and I love the fact that you put the time to list out all the sources in the description. Definitely a great find, looking forward to more videos!

@MrOreezy Жыл бұрын

Simp

@ahadmerchant7510 Жыл бұрын

The editing is solid too and she has a good microphone. Having a singular banger video with a unique topic is defo rare on KZfaq. I'm subscribing to see more vids like these.

@gordonliu3972 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. She's like an overnight sensation. I was shocked to see it's her only video. This channel will do really well if she decides to continue.

@spiritaam6689 Жыл бұрын

The Keo cosign 😳😳😳

@Homer-OJ-Simpson Жыл бұрын

@@gordonliu3972 she has maybe 6 videos on tiktok. So even outside of KZfaq, almost no content. This is a great start. She will have to find a better background, better lighting and could improve the mic but this is much better for first video than most others who became YT hits.

@crow22zero 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant video, thank you!!

@zacksmith5963 2 ай бұрын

No it isnt

@ezellouisyt 3 ай бұрын

You have an amazing channel and I think the dedication and simplicity of your videos are a nice mix for late night vibes ❤

@unkle.k 3 ай бұрын

Even though Sara.cbc92 is Chinese(taipei)that doesn't mean she represents all Chinese.

@teeth_eater Жыл бұрын

i’ve definitely noticed this, whenever my japanese friends say their japanese they always hear “omgg! that’s so cool! i love anime” or something like that but whenever i say i’m chinese i never get much back, one time one kid was like “so u know mao zedong?” like no? not personally😭

@sonic66646 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that time I visited France and met a Chinese-UK person in the hotel. I chatted with him a little, his attitude and culture was more leaning towards east asian than english. I told him how I only ever see asian cultures on my phone and that it’s actually so comfortable for me to talk to him, that it’s really nice how the culture is different. He paused and… i dont know. He just looked awkward until he finally said, you know there are different cultures, I’m Chinese not Japanese or Korean, and I said yeah I know that. And I thought I messed up somehow but he seemed cheered up as we kept chatting. I guess now I understand the background behind that reaction of his. Ofc I know Chinese is different, I was commenting on how I felt talking to him personally, and that even while France and Germany are different, they have many things in common, because they’re both European.

@mister.karate Жыл бұрын

Well what did you expect. You can't even experience their culture WITHOUT the regurgitated vomit of political-approved agenda 🤌🏻 They're the authors of their own downfall.

@60mmmortarcrewfdcs.koreana62 Жыл бұрын

that's sad .... This is actually the reason why I don't want to commit suicide cuz who knows, I might reborn in China as a Chinese and live a miserable life forever envying Korean and Japanese.

@FalconWindblader Жыл бұрын

@@sonic66646 That's because the European cultures, for the most part, ain't at each other's throats. the big three in East Asia however, has had that standing animosity towards each other going back to before WWII. while Europeans frown at getting their cultural background misidentified, East Asians, for the most part, outright HATE being even just identified WITH the cultures that're supposedly that of the 'enemy's' or 'inferior'. it also doesn't help things that China is currently getting increasingly aggressive at shitting over everyone who so much even disagrees with ANYTHING they do.

@sleepy7711 Жыл бұрын

@@FalconWindblader how is China getting "increasingly aggressive"

@xy-dy6jr 9 ай бұрын

As someone who have lived in China and other countries, the censorship is so real. There are so many manhuas, novels and animation related to mo dao zu shi that just gets parts that are censored when its related to same sex relationship. Especially in these novels, cause a lot of bl shows and manhwas originate from novels and there is a very clear plot and scenes that the characters are gay or in a relationship, as it was written by the author themselves but when its aired or published in physical copies, those parts just get deleted or changed or they are not allowed to published it. Many Chinese citizens are also really tired of these situation and realize it too, honestly I think the younger generations gen z are more open-minded about this situation compared to the older generation.

@kopitah7620 9 ай бұрын

You are super correct. MDZS are a huge magnet to study Chinese culture, many non Chinese are fascinated by China through MDZS. But now since CCP banned Danmei and survival show, their interest changed to Thailand and Korea

@October8426 7 ай бұрын

I remember a girl who had stickers of characters from a gay manhua on her stuff. That was the first time I saw any Chinese media in my daily life. To think how much great Chinese media there is that never gets out to the rest of the world.

@UnaliverOfChildren 7 ай бұрын

its as if you think the censorship isnt worse in LGBT america. go back to your country.

@timBenedetto 6 ай бұрын

Not only sex related content has been censored, something like 東躲西藏 will replace to 東躲XZ，西藏 means Tibet. It's so annoying. I'm pretty enjoy of cultivation stories of Chinese novels, but Chinese writers are very difficult to choose word or avoid some type of story, like political, PRC army, gangster and any negative of China, no even China this word has been banned, usually take hua xia(華夏) to replace. ----------------------------------------------- I'm apologized for my poor English. English is not my native language. but I really like Chinese culture, especially philosophy(老子、莊子). It's very sad to see CCP ruined everything.

@user-kb7to9ph8l 6 ай бұрын

文化传播必须是正向的，难道要传播如何吸毒，如何搞同性恋？引导孩子正确的取向是必然的！一群病态的心理只会让人类走向毁灭

@victang8787 16 күн бұрын

As a Chinese, I have to admit that we lag behind in soft power in the world. But it not because Chinese culture are not attractive or Chinese people are not innovative. It’s partly because we focus more on hard power. Most Chinese study technology and engineering but art. We are in different situation. Japan and South Korea are the allies of The USA or western countries. But I would say China is more independent in sovereignty, if you don’t mind. So we are always seen as a threat to the West. Everything good in China we will be bashed and everything bad in China will be exaggerated. In this situation, what can you do with soft power? And I would like to say the soft power of China, Russia, Iran, and even India are underestimated, while Japan and South Korea may be a little bit over estimated. I don’t know, Maybe we can see it in a decade or two.

@giratina6665 7 ай бұрын

I find it interesting that most historical and mythological legends I find cool are portrayals by japanese media. Li Shuwen from Fate for example. I've heard much about chinese cinema from one KZfaq channel in particular and after I feel confident in Mandarin skills would like to watch some of these movies (continuing my courses at university will be difficult since for the more advanced classes they usually don't find enough people, so I'm currently stuck at base level)

@Romi140 Жыл бұрын

Thailand or learning Thai is also becoming very popular - their dramas (including hugely popular BL series), T-pop, etc. I'm learning a few asian languages at the moment (Chinese is one of them) but I definitely agree that it's true that I was drawn more to learning Korean and Thai compared to Mandarin (also more motivated) precisely because of culture, music, TV, their soft power etc. To some extent though, we can't really blame people around the world for knowing almost nothing about China's music or movies or culture in general (compared to for example K-culture) - China isn't really working on exporting any of their culture - whether it's because they don't need to (because they already have millions of people huge market at home) or because they purposely don't intend to export anything due to their isolationist approach

@Romi140 Жыл бұрын

@WoodPileDenmark racist much?

@Yuunarichu Жыл бұрын

As someone who's partially Thai (and other buncha Asian blood) lmao I'm glad Thai media is gaining popularity internationally as an American, but I knew from an early age before BL blew up that Thai isn't an easy language at all, people sticking their toes into the pool is gonna need a lot of commitment. 😅 My dad's making me learn Thai as I'm attempting to learn CJK and it took one look at the tones that knocked me out. Cantonese is my first language so I'm attempting to learn it (my mom is Hoa Chinese) and it's not easy at all either. I salute anyone trying to learn Thai, it's extremely difficult to read. 😅

@phoebesekine4783 Жыл бұрын

Thailand is south east asia, not east asia

@Katcom111 Жыл бұрын

@@phoebesekine4783 Exactly, I am SEA myself but I cannot relate to East Asians though. Especially, the ethnic chinese that live in SEA for generations.

@taylorpuella Жыл бұрын

I feel this deeply. Learning Chinese is way more practical. But I enjoy consuming Korean & Japanese media way more, so I want to learn those languages. If I didn't interact with people from work or other social settings, I would only hear Korean everyday. But I don't want to seek out Chinese media to consume. It's just not as entertaining for me... This also may be offensive, but I don't like the way Mandarin sounds but as I think about it... how much of this, is just lack of exposure to the language? It's common to feel uncomfortable when we're not familiar. I wonder if I felt that when I first heard Korean or Japanese... And if I did, I wonder what compelled me to still engage with their media...

@m.i7211 Жыл бұрын

I loved how the creators of Genshin weaved Chinese customs and traditions into the world-building and story of Liyue (a Chinese inspired continent in the game). As a Japanese person I’d never really seen Chinese media so it really opened my eyes to what it can offer. What I loved the most was the character Yunjin, who is a Chinese opera singer. Her story quest includes a performance by an actual professional singer accompanied by the amazing animated visuals of Genshin, and when I first heard it it sent chills down my spines because of how good it was. I know that Genshin is inspired by Japanese anime and games that came before it, so it’s really cool to see a collaboration between Japanese and Chinese media.

@atomheart2370 Жыл бұрын

As a Chinese , none of them I know😂

@tonoslayer9880 Жыл бұрын

The clothes in genshin are Manchu clothes. The majority clothes of Chinese is called Hanfu

@Xottapchenko Жыл бұрын

And after that they just “stop making men feminine”

@dreadformer Жыл бұрын

@@tonoslayer9880yeah but Manchu are just as Chinese as Han or Uyghur or Hui or Mongol or anything else. China isn't an ethnostate.

@localmilfchaser6938 Жыл бұрын

Touch grass genshin fan

@geraldsoria1764 7 ай бұрын

Japan and Korea going for cultural victory.

@cokechang 7 ай бұрын

There are so many in stances where we see glimpses of the amazing potential of China’s soft power. But of course with the government in the way, we’ll never get to see it, such a shame

@mooiness Жыл бұрын

Specifically about Korea, China's censorship is why TV shows and movies like "The Squid Game" and "Parasite" will never be made there. Chinese storytellers are not allowed to depict social inequalities, corruption of the state and the flaws of the justice system. The state is totally afraid of the light that will be shone on them. And then you got the wolf warrior diplomats - let's just say that having nothing but insults for EVERYONE does not endear you to anyone.

@SirGryflet Жыл бұрын

Try "Tientsin Mystic" or "When a Snail Falls in Love" - two great gritty Chinese dramas. Although they might lack the social commentary you're looking for. But I'm hard pressed to find many US dramas that criticise US foreign policy. Quite the opposite: think of propaganda films like Black Hawk Down or the awful revisionist propaganda of Chris Hemsworth's adventure into Bangladesh. No, the US was driven back by India in the East Pakistan war of Independence .. but propaganda in the West would have you think otherwise. China has a long way to go...but so do we.

@user-yj7ve5zv9n Жыл бұрын

@@SirGryflet Full Metal Jacket.

@lc9245 Жыл бұрын

@@user-yj7ve5zv9n Yep. Starship Trooper, Generation Kill, Jarhead and so many more. This assessment has no merit. There's another explanation. Chinese audience. Chinese movies are made primarily for Chinese audience, and the movies content reflects the audience's taste. Perhaps, the reason why Chinese movies are not provocative is because the audience don't go watch such movies?

@SirGryflet Жыл бұрын

@@user-yj7ve5zv9n Good flick. Dr Strangelove too. Good director. The antiwar sentiment during and following Vietnam hasn't been repeated with Iraq. More the opposite, ie Hurt Locker.

@E4439Qv5 Жыл бұрын

Well. The moment where they went after Bolsonaro ironically endeared them to many Brazilians...

@elaine378 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so so much for this video. It’s been so hard being chinese but born in Europe. You want to defend China and it’s people and it’s culture but also not defend political ideologies that you don’t agree with but it’s hard to try to validate that China is not it’s CCP to all my friends and anyone I talk to in the west, and anytime I mention something positive about China that I’m passionate about it just gets shut down because the subject can not seem to be detached from it’s peoples in power :( which is truly so devastating

@birdtj82 Жыл бұрын

Hey,,I get what u r saying. U are NOT alone. Now u will get more n more ppl get mad at china. Its jealousy thing. In human psychology Jealousy is in Everyone. Just like how rest of world always had LOve/h8te towards America, they have with china too. IF China is weak or poor or actually ST*pid. Then no one cares. Just like Girl A on patio see Girl B show up. Suddently Everything about B looks annoying to her. From her “overly nice fitted LUlulemon, to pretty long eye lashes, to pointy chin. Slim thick size XS looking smoking”. --oh she must be slut, why does she dress like that outside of gym when not working out. Ewrr, i must be trying too hard. NOT realizing she had seen like so many ppl like that on d street , NOT 1 caught her attention . She will see a few more at passing by on her way home , they wont catch her attention either 5 yrs later. --d 1 she makes her put SOOO much emphasize n Analyze on, is d one made her feel inferior. I even had coworker--OUT OF BLUE RIP my EYE LASHES at work”i was joking ha ha ha, i thought u had fake one glued on.” Like I let OUT d BIGGEST most panic scream--yeah someone in MID day in restaurant in front of custermser trying to RIP my eye lashes off , to expose me in front of customers . Except my eye lashes were REAL i just happen to have Mascara on. 5-7% Chinese ppl have natrual long eye lashes, there always 2-3 ppl each class have long eye lashes. PPL have jealousy Issues will try to Expose something. MY GRANDA’s younger brother was IN control of MOST of Taiwanese army , in TAiwan during Cold WAR, and he was 金门县长 , n got absorbed into USA military in LA for 20 years as Major General. Its like “oh OKAY….but u are not from there so i still hate u.” N my cousins n my uncle n aunts. Were so rich, they immigrated to Canada by investment class- Having $1Million USD Cash in business acc n having succesful business. My cousins finished their business school after 8 yrs, went back to China Making a LOT of Money as Invesnt/security/bond senior trader in Shanghai in the late 20s. Making $100000-400000/yr before 30. My Canadian friends were MORE ANGRY that they WERE Able to make more money in China(they were Valditorians in School get scholarships in Canada ). They wont frigin care if an American or UK guy came over n went home ditch Canadian citizenship. Lol YEAH my Canadian Born, (NOT hot,but always jealous of me) gf was So upset, she started to scream at me. It was d most NONE chinese type of Disgraceful rude act. I was asked:”where are ur cousins” n I just answered her questions . K d more angry ppl are , they more jealous they are. My rule of thumb --dont pick a battle that u cant win. Ppl who are hidden racist will UNLOAD their biased anger on u. So avoid political opinion at all time. Its like Democrats cant convert Donald Trumps army. If u remain humble, n actually be kinds, slowly ppl open up n given more thoughts towards CCP. :) cuz I am my own charactor. even if someone RIP my eye lashes in front customers, in mid summer day near Biggst University in Canada. I am not going to be sour at it. She was being Jealous .

@haochengzhai7156 Жыл бұрын

😀Because they are clowns。That's what the United States is talking about.

@DonHaka Жыл бұрын

You dont agree with marxism? So you dont like freedom, liberty, equality or worker's rights? You mean the ideology that seeks to free humanity from the chains of capitalism? You dont have to defend the chinese government, but there is nothing wrong with the ideology that it is based on.

@user-pq5uv6gc5f Жыл бұрын

@@DonHaka No country has absolute freedom, such as the internet. Why is China's internet not open? Because people's cognitive level is generally low, if you know about Phone fraud in northern Myanmar,You know many Chinese people are deceived by a simple lie, imprisoned, and forced to do fraudulent work there.Knowing how to use VPN to access the internet is at least not too foolish, as it is a screening mechanism that prevents people with low cognitive levels from using software such as ytb and being manipulated by the navy.

@DanielMorales-oq4ub 11 ай бұрын

@@DonHaka yeah communisk is better woth authoritarianism social media is runing genz not gonna explain mucj

@SergeofBIBEK 6 ай бұрын

Freedom, the answer is freedom. Korean and Japan aren't exerting soft power, their citizens are through their freedoms.

@ByronC900 7 ай бұрын

Amazing video. One stat that likely supports your thesis is the selection of duty station for active duty Armed Forces graduating boot camp. For those that don't know, when you graduate, you pick a bid list of where you would LIKE to be stationed. Without googling it, I'm sure Japan and Korea have to be two of the top choices from Americans.

@r.s.10 9 ай бұрын

As a political science major who loves geopolitics (which is why I assume the almighty KZfaq algorithm sent me your video) I loved this analysis ... I remember studying theories on soft power back in college, and I think they put too much emphasis on government policies and actions. It seems you conclude (and I would agree) that the most powerful soft power tool a country can employ is to just create fertile ground for their own people to innovate, create, and profit from their own inventions.

@enjoyeanyway 6 ай бұрын

I mean, the cultural revolution and the book "quotations from chairman Mao Tse-Tung" created Maoist movement and impacted every major power in the west in a major way, with actual impacts in the political life of a lot of country So pure government policies and actions can definitely be a impressive source of soft power

@jacksmith-mu3ee 6 ай бұрын

Geopolitics is bs

@soso88884 4 ай бұрын

@jacksmith-mu3ee its bs but affects us the most

@jacksmith-mu3ee 4 ай бұрын

@@soso88884 how

@yiquny 4 ай бұрын

Western soft power is basically the extension of military might and economic dominance. When they have such advantage, they fully use their propaganda machine to smear anyone who may be becoming competitive. That is why USA allocated hundreds of millions of dollars each year, for the sole purpose to smear China.

@fattyMcGee97 Жыл бұрын

It’s heartbreaking that I just know I can’t really experience real Chinese culture without visiting the country. Some things will get passed the censors, but for the most part - what we see about China in the west is stuff that has been approved by the censors.

@cokecan6169 Жыл бұрын

You can from documentaries. Expect less translations, and a sort of limit on the direction (for example, most of it will be about food and architecture), but they are widely available on KZfaq in very high quality. They are very good at making documentaries.

@covenant05 Жыл бұрын

Try Taiwan, they pretty much preserved the culture while Mao was busy burning their history from the history books.

@nekozombie Жыл бұрын

@@covenant05 yeah, gotta try it before it gets absorbed by China πwπ

@lyhthegreat Жыл бұрын

@@covenant05 the chinese culture is much more than just taiwan's which is mainly from the fujian province because china is just so damm huge..but yeah, the concept of religion is mostly wiped out in china due to the cultural revolution...

@tinah142 Жыл бұрын

You just need to visit Taiwan. It really is a different country from the mainland. You can find traditional Chinese culture there without all the communist bull#*&!

@yuchan063 18 күн бұрын

I am South Korean. As a SF fan, I felt the great potential of Chinese culture through the 'Three Body Problem' series, and among young South Korean women, there are quite a few people who like Chinese culture, such as Maratang, Tanghulu, and Fu Bao. The reason Chinese culture is not as famous worldwide as Japan and my country is because of CCP. Great cultural achievements can never come out under censorship, and the CCP has done everything to suppress their cultural potential. The South Korean movie 'Parasite' and the drama 'Squid Game' mainly criticized the income inequality and social problems in South Korea. However, it is impossible for such self-critical works to come out under the CCP's rule. Japanese and Korean cultures have been greatly influenced by China. I think it is a shame that Chinese culture is less famous worldwide than Japanese and Korean culture. This goes same in economy. I can't even imagine the extent to which the incompetent CCP has blocked China's economic growth by ruling all of China. The Chinese have historically been a ‘people of trade’ who are more capitalist and better at business than the Japanese and Koreans. For an example, look at Taiwan, a tiny part of China that was fortunate to escape CCP control. They dominate the world technology such as TSMC, and the CEOs of NVIDIA and AMD are also Taiwanese. That's why I think China should be divided into various unique countries like the EU. Of course, a unified China has a very positive impact when their leaders do a good job, and an example is the CCP's rescue of hundreds of millions of people from poverty through Deng Xiaoping's reform in the 1990s. But similarly, a unified China hurts hundreds of millions of people when their leaders fail to do their jobs. The reason the Qing Dynasty fell behind Europe in the 19th century was because they did not compete with each other like Europe, and if China were divided, they would be able to develop their economy and culture by competing with each other. I can't even imagine how economically prosperous and culturally powerful Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces would be if they became independent countries. I expect that they will surpass South Korea and Japan within a few years (they already surpassed the GDP of SK). I agree that if CCP is divided, China will no longer be a superpower that can compete with the US. But, many mid-sized powers at the level of Germany, Britain, France, Japan, and South Korea will emerge in China. I think this will be good for both the Chinese and the world.

@xiwu1465 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video and it outlined so much issue I have seen after I left China to study abroad. Just to put some extra ideas and stir up the conversation: I think the effort is there, but they were done to make Chinese people feel good, not to let the rest of the world understand China. Exporting culture should be a conversation, not just making statement without caring about the audience.

@javiinkling695 10 ай бұрын

One of the key differences between China versus South Korea and Japan is that the latter two aren't afraid to show the negative sides of their cultures to the world (think Parasite and Satoshi Kon's films), which allows them to seem more genuine and even relatable to outsiders whereas China wants to show their culture in a squeaky clean way, which for many it feels fake and less appealing. For China to achieve its soft power potential, there needs to be a huge political change.

@JDoe020 10 ай бұрын

Not exactly true, since Japan skims over much of the details that led up to the Atom bomb, so they aren’t exactly completely honest about the history of ww2 and how they were involved unlike Germany. The only real distinction between the three is that today two are friendly with the US and one isn’t. The stuff you see on western medias in regard to China is also usually quite negative these days. All that combined with the difference in political ideology has created this sort of bias/dislike towards anything Chinese here in the west.

@user-vw8it9oo8h 10 ай бұрын

You are 100% Chinese, every time you talk about Japan in your youtube comments, you bring up the 80-year-old war that has nothing to do with the topic, claiming that Japan does not recognize history and that they should apologize. I have seen many Chinese people who start to do it. Perhaps, by doing so, we can maintain our moral superiority at all times, so we can eliminate the cognitive dissonance of losing to evil Japan. I think anti-Japan is like a huge identity that you Chinese are born with. If Japan disappears from this world, you Chinese will surely lose the pillar of your identity and fall into a big panic 🤣

@JDoe020 10 ай бұрын

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@@user-vw8it9oo8hThis is just the truth, you might not like that people bring up your nations ugly past, but it’s history and people deserve to know it. The way you call me “you Chinese” is interesting though. I can tell you hold a lot of resentment towards the Chinese for whatever reasons by the way you talk about them.

@anon2427 10 ай бұрын

Complete conjecture and mostly fabrications

@AndrewScott1337 10 ай бұрын

@@JDoe020 While you are correct that Japan would rather forget what it did between 1920-1945 (much like the US would rather forget treatment of native Americans), you have to acknowledge that the increased censorship and control of what you can say and create in public contributes to China's poor image in the west. I've toured in Japan with metal bands and rappers that are highly critical of the government and police and it has NEVER been an issue. Cultural exports like music, literature, and film are often critical of the culture they were created in. For example, the movie Parasite explores an ugly side of South Korean culture (classism, have and have-nots, inequality etc.) but does so in a way that makes us feel more connected to South Korea. Western media is negative toward China, but the sanitized government-approved "Perfect Strong China" media we get is even worse. It feels inauthentic and makes it harder to connect with the people and culture of China.

@Rachel-jy3tb Жыл бұрын

I remember one of the biggest Yuri/girls love manga was “begin with your name” and it was from a Chinese author/artist, it was so popular and it was a lot of peoples first manga/Manhua they read (me included), but sadly the Chinese government forced it to be censored. so literally after they finally shared mutual feelings and kissed, the author was forced to make it a friendship school comedy, which very disappointing. its sad to see the updates continue but the true story completely lost, seemingly never to finish…

@bluexephosfan970 10 ай бұрын

I remember that as well! That was really depressing and honestly turned me off exploring Chinese literature; hard to want to get invested when stuff like that can happen, yanno?

@shizachan8421 10 ай бұрын

I mean, its kinda symptomatic of why china will never gain any soft power, because their censorship practices will ultimately prevent chinese media from producing much distinct content. After all, what made japanese media so appealing when it started to enter the west was that it crossed boundaries and was by far more experimental and 'edgy' than what we were used here.

@banjoowo4001 10 ай бұрын

Thank god the government censored it, can't stand it now a days

@liviwaslost 10 ай бұрын

@@banjoowo4001bruh censorship is awful

@sarahbenzaoui 10 ай бұрын

@@liviwaslost nah it's good and moral you are not normal

@my_username141 7 ай бұрын

Great analysis and content! Keep it up 😀

@socarsocar601 23 сағат бұрын

and at the end of the day, world leaders flock to china, not to South Korea or Japan. why is that? because China is the factory of the world and so many countries depend on it for their livelihood.

@foofieviolet 3 күн бұрын

I find it interesting that a lot of China's most successful soft power comes from women, such as Douyin makeup, danmei, and fashion. Even though The Untamed was heavily censored from its original danmei source, it's still to date the most successful Chinese drama overseas. Even people who aren't really into Cdrama's or danmei know about it. And then the government of course had to further ruin the soft power potential of that series by banning ao3 (again, writing and fandom mostly by women and girls). The late CEO of the video game company which owns the adaptation rights to 3 Body Problem, Lin Qi, was adamant that fans be encouraged and allowed to create and interact with the source material however they wanted. He understood that fandom is how properties become successful and wanted to encourage fans to make their own indie games, write fanfiction, create fan films and fan art without fear of his company taking legal action (too bad he got murdered by his own employee before that could all come to fruition...). He had a goal of creating a media company that could export Chinese media and rival Western media like Netflix amd HBO. Clearly he understood and believed in the potential for China's soft power through films and video games and cultivating fandom around these properties. His company had too many internal problems though, so even if he hadn't died, idk if his vision would have been successful.

@tiramisunsun Жыл бұрын

I listen to C-pop, watch C-dramas and I'm a big fan of chinese webnovels, but one of my friends recently asked me why I kept consuming chinese contents since China "was so horrible" and honestly... It breaks my heart because people tend to think governement bad = culture bad, but it's not true at all! I don't think consuming and learning more about another culture is the same as condoning what a government is doing right now. Also with that logic, I shouldn't even consume american contents, then, since I don't like what the US government is doing lol

@Theo-oh3jk Жыл бұрын

See, but the horrible actions of The US, and the Western colonial powers never matter, they're always good. It only matters with China. It's hypocrisy and sinophobic.

@patriceesela5000 Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@reflectlight1368 Жыл бұрын

You are right. But then again, I dont wan't to explore a culture that turtures many innocent people so you also have to understand their perspective.

@_Just_Another_Guy Жыл бұрын

@@reflectlight1368 USA has bombed so many middle east countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, etc) and even brought destruction to some Asian countries like Vietnam, Japan, etc. Yet a lot of people still visit Disneyland, watch Marvel and Star Wars movies, etc.

@lorainejoseph7838 Жыл бұрын

But in a by way supporting and watching their content you re economically supporting them and subsequently their regime? Idk it's far fetched but this year I avoid it

@oaksaint4458 Жыл бұрын

As someone who's learning Mandarin Chinese, for me the hardest part of the language is finding content that interests me. When it comes to reading material it's pretty solid, there are manga translations from Taiwan and great novels from the Mainland. For listening materials though it's very hard to find interesting content, and having to navigate Chinese websites to look for them is a different challenge altogether.

@lyhthegreat Жыл бұрын

if you want to listen to mandarin chinese songs, there are plenty of great taiwanese songs that are readily available although the taiwanese/hk entertainment industry is experiencing a decline ever since the rise of china lol..as a matter of fact most people from china listened to taiwanese songs in the past...cpop just sucks imo...

@SS-yj2le Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Getting entertainment and other things from Taiwan is far easier and in my opinion, youku is really bad. It is slow and the entertainment is bland or behind a paywall.

@solarmoth4628 Жыл бұрын

Watching on Viki instead is basically the way to go. Or watching bilibili animations on youtube.

@harnoorbarn5657 Жыл бұрын

I would recommend you to stan the Chinese boy band wayv, they got amazing music and a lot of content to watch

@lightsabercollector3096 Жыл бұрын

Mao's redbook supremacy 🗿🍷

@koalteufel7947 6 ай бұрын

I feel like for a lot of people the actions of the Chinese government puts them on edge. Even though we know we shouldn't judge people based on that, it still makes people more on guard vs "Chinese influence". To a certain extent it's understandable, but very unfortunate as those people have done nothing wrong.

@catsNcode 3 ай бұрын

the actions of their government isn't anywhere as bad as Western governments, but the U.S. does spend 1 billion a year on anti-Chinese propaganda.

@fishJelly-bj5bf 7 ай бұрын

As a developing country, developing economy is priority rather than exporting culture. We should invest more on electronic industry.

@tamhung5763 Жыл бұрын

As a mainland Chinese, I totally agree with you. I want my country to be part of the world, not an isolated country. It is heartbreaking that most mainland Chinese do not have access to the world. It is ridiculous that a big country with a population of more than one billion lives in a big and small bubble!

@user-ff9fk5rl4t Жыл бұрын

@@metal_fusion Your comment is old, that is months ago. China is opening up, and the protest is decay.

@zoukai0000 Жыл бұрын

如果互联网是世界的而不是美国的我同意你说的

@user-jm5pv8bw7c Жыл бұрын

哈，老外都明白x西方势力对中国的诋毁和抹黑，而你作为被抹黑的一份子却不自知。我不否认我们有问题，但调转枪口成为敌人的帮凶我就不理解了。

@giornogiovanna4461 Жыл бұрын

you know like 70% of the population uses some sort of VPN right?

@tamhung5763 Жыл бұрын

@@zoukai0000 互联网大概率是世界上最强大的国家的，那个国家刚好是美国而已

@hellblueboy4 Жыл бұрын

I grew up with Japanese anime and games, It actually shaped my worldview. As adult I learned that Japan is not some utopia i thought it would be as a kid, there were some bad shits in Japan as well but I can't bring myself to hate Japan. So soft power is really effective!

@CalmClamFam Жыл бұрын

There are always crazies in every country. It’s important to recognize that no country is perfect but there are some really good people despite all that

@sayurivkg Жыл бұрын

Same story here. I know Japan is not a perfect country to live in, but I can't say I have a negative image about it. Thanks to their soft power by-products I have been taught to admire some aspects of the Japanese culture.

@asylnbola1445 Жыл бұрын

@@sayurivkg ummm its actually good country to live

@walterb.3592 Жыл бұрын

What? A whole country isn‘t perfect and games and movies aren‘t a perfect representation of reality? How suprising, I‘m really proud of you to make this discovery

@anasian8894 Жыл бұрын

oh damn.. you guys never heard of Rape of Nanking, Sex Slavery by Japan in Korea, China and South-East Asia right?

@earlystrings1 4 ай бұрын

One huge potential area of Chinese soft power is it’s amazing food. There is, in fact, official cctv content like “Bite of China” or the Goldtread channel, as well as homegrown content like chef Wang Gang that reflects very positively on Chinese food. There are edge cases though. Li Ziqi and her amazingly popular food and lifestyle channel just sort of disappeared during the crackdown on entertainment figures.

@JoeGalaxyRod 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the amazing video! You really made good points ❤ By the way, other than just buy something fashion, China also exists some bad/ill atmosphere like copying good and creative ideas invented by other countries due to its overspeed development and economic burden. It seems that in China people assume copying/stealing an idea or following a trend as such an easy and efficient way to earn money or achieve success. Tencent is a typical example when you find out Tencent meeting is just a copy of zoom… Also like ChatGPT’s Chinese version WenYanYixin Invented by Baidu(which in my opinion is just a joke)😂Not just ideology, its current economic structure and knowledge system also affect a lot. In this situation, people generally lack passion for innovation and self development because it is too time-consuming. Let alone crossing the firewall and digging into soft power.😢

@lucasmitchell9027 Жыл бұрын

I myself actually consume quite a lot of "Chinese soft power" because I love reading Chinese web novels. I think that if they focused on that like japan focuses on light novels and anime they could have their own kind of "weeb" culture.

@notme9804 Жыл бұрын

I'm also in the novel space. My thought regarding the novel industry is the translation being the biggest roadblock not the quantity of novels. Sponsoring these authors would also be nice but the issue is really a decent chunk of the space overseas is piracy. We aren't really strongly supporting the author or the translators. This is why on webnovel you see a sudden flush of local novels on the platform, to save translation costs. Then you have MTL used to save costs but weakens the quality harshly. Its a money sink for something thats not being consumed massively and not having a large paying market. sadly. I recommend the recent work of 'Cuttlefish who likes diving' and 'First Order' btw.

@nobodynoone2500 Жыл бұрын

Funny how you are even using japanese words to describe possible chinese culture.

@andrewface2355 Жыл бұрын

@@nobodynoone2500 Did you just say weeb is Japanese word?

@jayrun4341 Жыл бұрын

sameee I'm also a webnovel reader and there's a lot of good books (but also see a lot of mid-tier power fantasy) but yea translation is a problem and its a niche franchise

@ghexaier Жыл бұрын

bh i like chinese webnovels too but the only way they're gonna focus on them is add more censorships, also i feel like majority of them r streamlined. just take the same setting and write infinite variations of it, so i just treat it as an indulgent fanfiction. but then again there are true gems once in every while and i respect that. wish they could live up to their full potential but with their government, it prbly wont happen ever.

@danielheemangcho Жыл бұрын

As a Korean-Canadian I felt like I've experienced both sides of this varying Western perception firsthand. When I was still a kid in elementary school, nobody here really knew anything about Korea other than Kim Jong Un and I still remember one of the first questions other curious kids would ask me was 'Are you Chinese or Japanese?' as if those were the only two possible options. So as I've gotten older, it's been very interesting to see more and more people in the West becoming interested in Korean culture or at least becoming more aware of the country in general, as opposed to maybe 10-12 years ago when they would still be asking me if I was from the north or the south. It is nice to feel like your culture is finally being somewhat appreciated so I understand why people would feel disappointment when the prevailing view of the culture they identify with is a negative one. As has already been mentioned though, it seems like the less than favourable perception of China will remain so long as they are at odds with the west. USA has an incentive to keep China as being perceived as that other country while China continuously feels the need to block any significant cultural exchange with the west which ultimately stifles its own cultural exports.

@kublaikhan6248 Жыл бұрын

Disadvantages of China Xi Jinping nationalism communism language sound fake Advantages of China history ruins Hanzi (character) food population Chinese is very difficult to hear, but I think it's good to approach it in a business way without worrying about it. However, it is very difficult for me to adapt to Chinese sounds like Chinese animations and dramas. I think this is the case for all countries. And China has a lot of prejudice against people around the world. For example, because of nationalism and collectivism The most important fact is the sound of the language. To make people like and like a country, first of all, the sound of the language must be good. But to me the Chinese sound is very terrible. As I explained above, I think there is no problem with the Chinese language if we approach it in a business way.

@natn41r Жыл бұрын

@@kublaikhan6248 What an idiot take,

@missasyan Жыл бұрын

@@kublaikhan6248 im good with chinese food and i always liked their stories like journey to the west and their novels. aside from that im filipino so i still have a bad perception of china LOL its not just the west theyre takin our stuff and setting up their gambling centres and all the politicians are sat down like "stonks" still cannot get used to hearing chinese it depends like on the person i'm good with voice actors and the like but normal people speaking it sounds so eargrating and they're almost always the loudest and the problem passenger on the aeroplane. and with our teacher's telling us about sinocentrism im just like what china isnt the centre of da world and your dash line makes no sense its west philippine sea bruh not south china sea (pulls out military boats) i curse your mothers why same thin with america i guess. theyre also a superpower and huge, so, very egoistic i guess...i dont like any rich or big country but especially china cus theyre like RIGHT HERE WHY

@charlienoii Жыл бұрын

@@kublaikhan6248 bot

@Origin820 Жыл бұрын

@@charlienoii clearly not

@ilhamn1177 6 ай бұрын

The China soft power I can think of is Romance of The Three Kingdoms and Journey To The West, and who made it popular is mostly Japanese video games and anime adaptation (Dynasty Warriors series, a lot of anime about Sun Wukong, anime about three kingdoms heroes, etc.) example was popular perception of what Lu Bu is like and the first image that comes to mind was the Dynasty Warriors series version 😀

@haplol7267 6 ай бұрын

win-win-win game🤣

@user-tc6wf5xlee 6 ай бұрын

The Japanese-produced TV drama "Journey to the West" was also broadcast in China, but was cancelled due to public and private outcry over its content, which was far removed from the original story. In Western countries, however, it won high acclaim. Although Japan may not have had any bad intentions, it must have set Chinese people's teeth on edge…😅

@sara.cbc92 5 ай бұрын

@@user-tc6wf5xlee I actually liked the Japanese version of Saiyuki with it's twist of a female lead as Tripitaka.

@isuki.i 3 ай бұрын

the talk about novels also reminded me of tgcf or heaven officials blessing and how it got a donghua and so many of the scenes in the books that would have you dead on the floor got removed because of censorship and although its still a romance it’s really sad that so many of the scenes that had me giggling rolling around on the floor were just completely removed

@RariettyC Жыл бұрын

Another interesting thing about Genshin specifically is that it's always associated with Japanese media by the fans themselves. Ask any English-speaking Genshin fan what language they choose to set the game's voices to, and they'll probably say the English dub or the Japanese dub. I’ve barely seen anyone who speaks English as their primary language claim the original Chinese one, even though that one is probably a lot more directly connected to what the writers themselves intend. They cast huge Japanese names with lengthy resumes of popular anime and games, and it's probably the most popular thing (i.e. most cosplayed and most art being sold in artists' allies) at most 2022 anime conventions. They still try to inject Chinese culture in, obviously (I personally loved the Chinese opera song they included within a quest through the character of Yun Jin), but it feels like fans don’t really opt to delve deeper into other Chinese art or entertainment through it. Rather, the fans see the Chinese influence as limiting due to the potential censorship policies that the game wouldn’t be subject to if Mihoyo worked outside of China, and Genshin seems widely seen as the exception to a (rather narrow and prejudiced) viewpoint that many Westerners have of Chinese media being inaccessible or unappealing. (legit, though, I have talked to one person who went “I’m not bigoted against China; I play Genshin” as an excuse to justify Sinophobia, in similar fashion to how I’ve heard at least one K-pop fan say something similar about South Korea. To me, the game is potentially an interesting case study in how entertainment can be used as either a shield or an open forum to both deflect or exuberate criticism towards a culture, especially for outsiders whose main source of positive interaction with a culture is through a fandom and the products tailor-made to profit through that fandom.)

@NoName-dx1no Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard that Mihoyo used the romanized Japanese name of the game which is Genshin instead of the romanized Chinese name Yuanshen because they don’t want to be associated with being Chinese and have people assume negative things by them being Chinese right off the bat, heck despite being a Chinese company they have a “Japanese sounding” name which is why they are associated with Japanese media instead of Chinese

@hikariuchiha977 Жыл бұрын

zhongli is one of the most popular characters and he's supposed to be chinese right? as he's from Liyue ?

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@clementineshamaney5137 Жыл бұрын

Genshin feels really Chinese to me though, but i grew up in Singapore so maybe thats why.

@Autoctonal Жыл бұрын

On the last paragraph, if liking a piece of culture from group would make that group look more favorable then America would of solve racism 100 years ago

@skywalker8100 Ай бұрын

China should not copy Korean entertainment and dramas. Then there will be no creativity and originality.

@dee5846 Жыл бұрын

This is so true, there’s similar aspects to this with Arabic for example. It’s not as “popular” as any east asian languages so no one sees the benefit in learning it. I literally remember my friend was telling me how he was in a club and they had to pick between learning Russian, Arabic, and Swahili. Literally most people, my friend included, picked Russian over any other languages- Arabic was the least popular.

@aini_ Жыл бұрын

ahh that sucks, i hope arabic gets more recognition in the future as it is a beautiful language!

@knockhello2604 Жыл бұрын

@@aini_ Arabic is popular due to Islam

@knockhello2604 Жыл бұрын

Arabic is popular due to Islam

@onethingaboutthecomments.121 Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry to hear that :( . I took Arabic in high school, and I loved it! It’s such a beautiful language. I’m hoping I can take at least one class in college!

@jolp9799 Жыл бұрын

im suprise Swahili ended up more popular than arabic

@mightydazken 7 ай бұрын

Having watched a few Cdramas, they all have this eerie feeling of being unauthentic on a deeper level which makes them hard to buy in to. In stark contrast to the few translated older Chinese movies which feel super authentic even tho they were goofy as f. I must say though, the three big translated chinese games I’ve played so far have been nothing short of fantastic. Genshin has a sprawling world with a great and accesible combat mechanic, albeit a bit lacking in depth. Gujian 3, alongside Sword and Fairy on the other hand were simply great single player experiences, rivalling those of more famous IPs like FF, DmC, Witcher 3 etc

@mordant221 Ай бұрын

Martial arts movies were born in Hong Kong, soft power at it's finest. With 3 world renowned action stars, Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan/ and Jet Li having pushed that genre into the main stream.

@micheller3251 10 ай бұрын

The Chinese government's approach to soft power is like that school bully who punches kids in the playground to assert dominance and then gets mad at them for not liking him.

@NathanHenriquefa 10 ай бұрын

Except China isn’t bullying anyone. HK maybe… But that’s it. Meanwhile, the US gets to overthrow democracies, supports over 70% of the dictatorships, fights unjustified wars, fund terrorist religious groups, commits war crimes again and again… And you americans and europeans still think Russia and China are the villains of the planet? Wake up, YOU GUYS are the bullies!!

@kopitah7620 10 ай бұрын

@@Nobody-Nowhere CCP. literally banned Danmei/Boys love, Danmei is China's biggest cultural creative export despite being banned by CCP. Chinese movies that are made by CCP never popping up on netfix, because it's cringe

@JakeReus 10 ай бұрын

That's an American thing too, outside the West

@foljs5858 10 ай бұрын

Considering the history of bullying done to other states by China vs by the US, where the first is almost non-existent except some disputes with neigbors, whereas the other has fucked countries all over the world, this is extremely funny...

@deep_cuts2019 10 ай бұрын

Like the Simpsons episode where no one would go to Nelson’s birthday party

@someperson6475 Жыл бұрын

i think another aspect of china's lack of soft power is that it had a period of complete rejection of globalisation (re 1949-1970s) whereas japan and korea were opening western influence, for korea during the korean war and for japan to recover their image after ww2. kpop is largely based on african-american music and anime was developed after european/american cartoons were introduced in the early 20th century. it kinda reminds me of how most mandopop or cantopop singers are from taiwan or hong kong and a lot of their pop culture was eventually exported to the mainland in the 1980s and 90s.

@saintnicole3209 Жыл бұрын

it's because of american influence in japan and south korea that essentially forced them to become open to the rest of the world. japan had no choice because of their total surrender in ww2, and south korea was founded under an american puppet dictatorship. china never fell victim to this american interference and so didn't have to rely on globalization to maintain autonomy.

@MasterIceyy Жыл бұрын

Don't forget Mao literally obliterating Chinese culture

@user-sf9rr7wu3f Жыл бұрын

exactly

@zeleony05 Жыл бұрын

@@MasterIceyy What Mao did was industrialization, which every country went through and it was Chaos in every other country too. Except in China they took money from rich people. That voice spreads out wider.

@zeleony05 Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was going to say. The only reason Japan, Korea and any other South East Asian country is more appealing to the Western Market is mostly because those countries adapted to Western culture. Kpop nowadays is becoming more American mainstream. Only original thing is that they have like 5 different genres in one song.

@Jinni_SD 7 ай бұрын

On gaming, Genshin is a spin-off of a larger series of games called Honkai Impact and most recently Honkai Star Rail. Previous games in the series heavily implied a lesbian relationship among two characters. It's a common thing to reincarnate characters across games (for lack of a better term). As the game series gained popularity in the west, the implication of the relationship has been toned down. It's also worth mentioning that the Chinese company Tencent fully owns Riot Games, makers of League of Legends and Valorant, the former arguably the biggest E-sport in the world.

@stevenzheng5459 6 ай бұрын

I think this video only addresses the weakness of Chinese cultural export and soft power in Western countries, when compared to Korea and Japan. Chinese media is quite influential in Southeast Asia, partially because of the large Chinese diaspora. We are seeing the newer mainland Chinese stuff overtaking the Hong Kong and Taiwanese pop music, movies, and dramas. Of course, Hong Kong and Taiwanese media is still large there for historical reasons (my mom grew up with all that). Japan and Korea had a longer history of exporting their media to the West, so we might need to wait 1-2 more decades to see more mainland Chinese media there. It also depends on how receptive of mainland Chinese media Western countries are willing to be. When I taught a white girl Mandarin Chinese, I was surprised to learn she watched mainland Chinese dramas to learn the language. I grew up in Canada, so even I don't watch Chinese dramas.

@user-uo3tc6vt8n 4 ай бұрын

现在的问题是，你们认为中国人输出的东西不够有趣，谁告诉你们的？中国文化输出了几千年了，怎么就不有趣了，中国的审美几千年了，怎么就需要一个美国人来告诉中国人什么是美了？中国人不会幽默吗？你听得懂中国人的幽默吗？谁告诉你西方的东西就是好的，就是中国人想要的？就是中国人喜欢的？所以你发现问题的核心没有，这是话语权之争，不是中国不够酷，而是你觉得中国不够酷，为什么觉得中国不够酷，因为你被西方的价值观影响了，你变得不“东方”了，所以你觉得中国不酷了。中国人是什么样的，得由中国人自己来定义。中国的节目，需要输出的是中国的审美，中国的舞蹈，中国的人，中国人对于美的定义，反观日本，日本男明星全是柔弱男性、娘化男性、染的黄毛，韩国的kpop，歌词中的韩语越来越少，英文越来越多，现在kpop几乎变成了韩国人在输出英语歌，简直是个笑话。再反观香港、台湾，甚至包括新加坡，审美严重东南亚化，你看港台现在还能找到几个贾静雯那样的传统美女？中国大陆就是要把风气带正，让你们感受一下来自东方大国中国的审美震撼，告诉你们中国风就是比那些kpop高级，如果有一天中国大陆的舞台上全部都是刘逸云那样的唱跳歌手，如果有一天这个舞台上不再有中国风的舞蹈，那这个舞台就没有存在的必要了，那说明中国的伟大复兴失败了。难道你们没发现韩流、kpop已经越来越不行了吗？民族的才是世界的，一个强大的国家，必须要有自己的价值观、自己的审美，自己的话语权，将来港澳台明星、东南亚明星、日韩明星，如果想在大陆得到机会，或者想到大陆赚钱，就得往中国的审美上靠。谁想学美国亚裔那一套审美，审美东南亚化，你就一边玩去吧，大陆没有你的发展空间。有些人身为殖人而不自知，还觉得别人错了，觉得国风舞蹈不好看，那是你自己的审美错了，是你该反思了，是你把自己的姓都忘记了。大陆人或许被洗脑了，但是大陆人还没忘记自己是黑头发黄皮肤的中国人

@Moonfallrosa Жыл бұрын

I used to be really intrested in old chinese history and culture, but whenever it got to more modern day stuff it just felt empty and cold, and it’s because of how limited and censored it is. i feel like this best summarises my feelings towards the three in current day: Korea is the cool cousin who makes trendy stuff and is fun, Japan is the fun uncle who will enjoy stuff with you but still has that sort of elderly feel of knowing modern and old arts and conveying them both pretty well, and then china is the grandpa who’s there, but feels too cold and stuck in the past to form a meaningful connection with. not sure if that makes much sense as a metaphor?

@seger602 Жыл бұрын

Japan is the uncle, but for entirely different reasons I'd say

@long19990 Жыл бұрын

共产党打压主体民族。

@-w-138 Жыл бұрын

same honestly

@takanara7 Жыл бұрын

@lauren su The US and Japan also pump money into their cultural stuff. The main difference is that writers/authors are allowed to put anti-authoritarian themes into their work. There is still censorship, like in most of the 20th century you weren't allowed to show inter-racial relationships in TV movies in the US. It wasn't "officially" done by the government but rather by corporations but pushed by politicians. Now you see the same thing where the government is "unofficially" pushing censorship on social media.

@xXxSkyViperxXx Жыл бұрын

modern china is too political. thats why

@user-yz2tz4pu9j Жыл бұрын

As someone who is an avid reader, and has read the THREE BODY PROBLEM and numerous xianxia/wuxia novels, I must say they are some of the best in their respective genres (sci-fi and historical fantasy). It’s really sad that they’re not more popular because it’s just soooo imaginative and unique

@haochengzhai7156 Жыл бұрын

Uh, don't worry. I'm a fan of fiction too. Fiction is booming in China. It's only the novels that spread pornography that are restricted.

@rainnchen9632 Жыл бұрын

But that's the thing, porn is inspiring. No one would be writing danmei otherwise....

@InternetsToughestGuy Жыл бұрын

@@haochengzhai7156 The problem to make more people outside of China notice those works

@juicewilliss 10 ай бұрын

@@InternetsToughestGuyasian porn is weird to westerners in general. Whether it's from Japan, China or Korea. The Three Body Problem is being adapted for TV and I hope it does well.

@randommonkey4900 10 ай бұрын

What is the theee body problem

@ghravel 3 ай бұрын

This is such a fascinating video. As someone who was born and raised in the US to Taiwanese parents, when I was younger I felt it was really important for people to know that I was Taiwanese and not Chinese because Chinese was not cool (despite us being the same ethnically and sharing pretty much the same culture, as far as ancient China etc). When Japanese and Korean cultures started becoming "cool" in recent years, I felt jealous and really hated on people romanticizing and glorifying Japanese and Korean culture. I've never really thought about why Chinese culture is "not cool", and this video helped me to understand more!

@tejave0ojnc 3 ай бұрын

" When Japanese and Korean cultures started becoming "cool" in recent years, I felt jealous and really hated on people romanticizing and glorifying Japanese and Korean culture".. Chinese people really need to stop this kind of thinking and display jealous and hate.. It's so counter-productive., It just makes Chinese people petty and un-cool.

@liklik5296 Ай бұрын

中国文化影响力小实际上原因很简单，因为人均gdp只有1.25万美元，它代表着综合发展水平不高，仍然只是发展中国家，游戏产业，电影工业，等等其他各种文化产业都没有发展成熟，还不像发达国家那样成熟。同等人均gdp的国家有墨西哥俄罗斯马来西亚阿根廷，他们的文化影响也不高。而且过去日韩人均gdp1.25万美元的时候，其实文化影响力也不高。所以说白了只要国家发展水平上来了文化影响力自然就会上去，随着中国继续进步，文化影响世界只是时间问题。审核严格固然是个问题，但根本原因还是综合发展水平。

@unkle.k Ай бұрын

China is likely to fall into the middle-income trap unless it undergoes full democratization.

@ivanh.1803 28 күн бұрын

@@unkle.kif a Western liberal democracy is required to develop, then why is India such a shithole?

@campbellk9742 Жыл бұрын

Another thing I’m thinking about is pop music and how insular that is. I’ve loved the Japanese girl group AKB48 and all their sister groups. They’ve got co-groups in Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines, India, and China. But the groups in China split off from the 48 label and made their own music and follow a completely different vibe AND THEYRE REALLY GOOD. but they truly wanted to be by themselves and not co-exist with the groups from the other countries. I think it’s a micro-example of how the party interacts with their soft power problems

@guxiangsupremacist9572 Жыл бұрын

yess I love snh48 :D

@zoho6992 Жыл бұрын

in India ?😂😂😂 there is no asian country which has influenced India/Indians other than Japan ( only cultural and civic sence ) No K-pop ,No J-pop ,yes there is some kpop lover which is tiny than our folk songs viewers 🙏 Indian kpop fan ,please accept the truth . After bts thing over you than you will.......

@indiasuperclean6969 Жыл бұрын

@3my_lia Жыл бұрын

omg snh48! i love them sm especially team sii, but i lost interest after gen 1 and 2 members graduated :'( i found out about them through 7senses (which is probs the most successful subunit group to come out of snh48) when they appeared on show champion.

@godslittlecrayola Жыл бұрын

SNH48 leaving was so strange

@anonysilver525 Жыл бұрын

honestly as someone who started learning chinese partly because of how much I fell in love with mo dao zu shi, it really saddens me how the backlash to the popularity of the novel and danmei in general affected stuff, both the censorship tightening and the author being bullied off soical media (and rumored to face much worse). I think in addition to the direct affect it has on art, censorship also plays a much more covert and insidious role in essentially exacerbating "tall poppy syndrome", which kind of makes sure anything truly unique/talented that gets popular is essentially pushed down and isn't really given it's time to develop/flourish.

@aureliaaurita8138 Жыл бұрын

I haven't heard about Mo dao zu shi author been bullied. She writes the most precious stories, how dare they🤬

@anonysilver525 Жыл бұрын

@@aureliaaurita8138 I don't know a whole lot but I heard she has a lot of really dedicated anti fans there. They spread nasty rumors, doxxed her a few times and in general kind of ruined her reputation among general audiences and so she hasn't been seen much on social media for the past few years. I really hope she is ok because some of the rumors about her well being are really concerning

@ToscaTee Жыл бұрын

Wasn’t she planning to right another series? Tgcf was over 3 years ago and I haven’t heard from her since besides rumors that she went to jail or the nasty bullying, I really really hope she’s doing okay

@anonysilver525 Жыл бұрын

@@ToscaTee yeah she said back in like 2019 that she had at least two more novels in planning stages and gave an outline to one of them (modern with magic setting about death gods) but she went offline soon after so no one really knows what are her current plans for them.

@tomw4688 Жыл бұрын

Those old leaders in China are mostly engineers but they somehow need to learn the importance of promoting an attractive culture outside of China. I'm not too enthusiastic about that. Those old Marxist engineers are ill suited for the job. They're too used to controlling the populace with their communist ideologies and censorship network and using wolf warrior diplomacy in the political ring domestically that they think it would work abroad. They're going to learn a hard lesson and Chinese people abroad will have to suffer for it through increased discrimination.

@oshk6982 2 ай бұрын

To summarise. The firewall is the biggest problem. Not directly, but it will always be like this until the firewall is removed. Even if there is soft power, the Chinese version is different to the international version therefore the markets are always separated. China can export as much as they want but if they cannot connect with western audience,then it will fail.

@Afterthefallout55660 7 ай бұрын

There are more problems I can talk about. I live in Germany and we have a lot of Japanese and Chinese, as well as Thais and Vietnamese people here. I have also dealt with Chinese and Thais, as well as Japanese. It's not just that things are more difficult for them, it's also that the Chinese are less homogeneous than the Japanese and Koreans. Many Chinese people I met in Germany are very conservative. Even though they live in Germany, they reject LGBTQ people, not the people themselves, but their sexual orientation. The arguments are often based on yin and yang and modern attempts at explanation fall on deaf ears. But here the Japanese and Koreans are very open and with Visual Kei as well as in the K-Pop area they play with the feminine and homoerotic. It is also socially accepted. You can also see this in Thailand. The Chinese, on the other hand, are extremely stiff and old-fashioned.There are also other issues where their young daughters are married under force and strange traditions such as marrying a dead women with a single men so he don't go into the afterlife alone. the use of animal body parts as medicine and many other things outside of their political image make them extremely unpopular. They had once figureheads like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, but these too have slowly faded away. And China is more than to blame for the political image that it gives itself when dealing with its neighbors: Taiwan, Tibet, Japan and Southkorea.

@applesyrupgaming 4 ай бұрын

Not a CCP fan but Tibet was finished regardless who won the Chinese Civil War. The mere existence of the Tibetan Army was a huge reform. However, it got thrashed by mere warlords in the 30s. It only stayed because of British calling for a ceasefire. Newly independent India wouldn't have enough time to prop Tibet up as the Brits did to keep their buffer zone. The final nail in the coffin was the fact Tibet was recognized as part of China by the entire world including the USA. Tibet wasn't a matter of if, but a matter of *when*

@AdamYJ 3 ай бұрын

Those Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan movies were largely made in Hong Kong back when it was under British stewardship. So, not China exactly.

@iwoodbustanut7380 11 күн бұрын

@@applesyrupgaming Besides, Tibet controls the source of the Yangtze, making it a region too important for the Chinese to be left independent. Your right, Tibet is absolutely cooked as a sovereign state either way.

@theresahe4181 Жыл бұрын

i really hope this goes viral because i really want more discussion about sinophobia

@aini_ Жыл бұрын

ahh thank you so much! sinophobia is so frequently expressed in discussions of China and it often goes unacknowledged. I'm glad to be able to spark some convos on this and hopefully get more people to think about why our perception of china is the way it is! thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment! :)

@makoy2689 Жыл бұрын

You can't paint this as sinophobia. While sometimes mainland China can be unfairly maligned, the lion's share of it does come from the government. The government constantly claims that it is inseperable from China, represents all Chinese and that they are the sole entity doing so. If they want to stop Chinese culture being ridiculed worldwide then then onus is on the govt to change.

@theresahe4181 Жыл бұрын

@@makoy2689 it is sinophobia if youre unable to separate the people and the state. yeah the government sucks but your claim that people making comments abt the chinese governement under posts related to china but not the government is sinophobic.

@makoy2689 Жыл бұрын

@@theresahe4181 But this is about Chinese culture, and how it loses out to japanese and Korean culture on the world stage. My point is that it is not reasonable or accurate to chalk it up to sinophobia when you have a government taking such an active role in antagonising everythjng, including Chinese culture itself.

@goosex3644 Жыл бұрын

@@theresahe4181 if the republic of China was democratic, I would disagree as you would assume that the govt represents the people.

@technojunkie123 Жыл бұрын

The crazy thing is that it feels like this issue is only a recent phenomenon - I remember as a kid I loved learning about other Asian cultures and it felt so much easier to see and learn about Chinese culture, and this was before social media! It really feels like the richer China got the worse off they got at exporting soft power

@jonnyOysters Жыл бұрын

Yeah it definitely is. Korea wasn't really that known until the last 10 years imo.

@jl63023 Жыл бұрын

Because in the late 2000's China had a lot of promise. They had the Olympics in 2008, Confucius Institutes were popping up everywhere, Ni Hao Kailan was airing on kids TV. Even the song for the Olympics show this. China had quite a bit of soft power in the 2000's and early 2010's. Xi Jinping and his nationalism pissed that all away

@msjsr9364 Жыл бұрын

@@sosoable 谁提到台湾的自由？还为什么你认为我们不知道越南，台湾的文化？

@mmm-mmm Жыл бұрын

that was before mao, i mean Xi, the current dictator. he has a little red book too. let's see how many people he can kill.

@mcRydes Жыл бұрын

A lot of that credit is due to Hong Kong, especially their film industry. Now they are quickly losing whatever freedom of expression they still had left.

@davidli7829 3 ай бұрын

Its not even about the gay novels and things. I having spent a significant portion of my life in china and the US as well as Canada, I feel most westerners see China through the way it is portrayed in western media, as a evil tyrannical government, and usually don't realize a lot of it isn't as accurate as the media portrays. Sure the Chinese government arent exactly good samaritans, but everytime I tell someone I am from China, they think its some dystopian 1984 oppression state, like sure, we don't have freedom like the USA does, but its not exactly the hell they think it is. This as a result, I feel just leaves a bad taste in the mouths of people learning the things they enjoy are Chinese. If you scroll down on the comment sections of Chinese channels like SCMP, people will leave comments just trashing china. Even when its not a government owned news channel, doesn't report on anything political, and the content is generally lighthearted, people will still leave comments down below saying "free XYZ" or "down with the dystopian regime" even when it has nothing to do with the content of the video. For example if people hear china in a tech or engineering video, they will default to "the construction quality is probably bad" or "its just more spyware". I'm not saying the people are unjust in saying this, in china, especially among the older generations, there is heavy anti japanese sentiment because of the aftermath of WW2, and its not really fair to call the older generation bigoted and to say that their beliefs are wrong. Its why I don't really say much when other people say things like that about china. I just hope western news and yt channels like china uncensored can actually report more objectively and make the act to separate the ideas of the people from those of the government, and I hope that the Chinese government can learn to have mercy and strive for better reputation in the world stage. Not much point to this comment, just frustrated I guess, frustrated how its cool to be jap or Korean, but china is just known for tyranny and obnoxious and rude exchange students.

@sara.cbc92 3 ай бұрын

Jap is a derogatory ethnic slur.

@unkle.k 3 ай бұрын

@@sara.cbc92Is Chinese-taipei recognized as part of China?

@user-ee3tv7lf1i 20 күн бұрын

People around the world have a poor perception of China. This is because they remember the countless evil deeds they have committed against the world. As this continued to build up, it also led to racial discrimination. Thanks to this, innocent Koreans and Japanese people have been assaulted or killed because they were mistaken for Chinese, and they are still experiencing racial discrimination countless times. In Spain, it is called chino, and in Europe, it is ridiculed with cries of ching, nihao, nihao. Ironically, as Kpop becomes more popular, European and North American women's perception of Asian men has improved, and Chinese people are also benefiting. What's even funnier is that while there are Chinese people who feel grateful for Korea and regret the lack of Chinese culture due to such benefits, There are many people who slander Korea by claiming that Korean culture is Chinese. Chinese broadcasts even say that Taekwondo was born in China. Every country in the world operates a Taekwondo gym and uses the Korean flag as its logo, but only China uses its own Chinese flag.

@Chessmapling 10 ай бұрын

The deficiency is quite astounding. I am Chinese American, yet I know far more stories, music, movies from Korea and Japan than from China due to things you mentioned like anime and Kpop. It's sad because there are great Chinese stories to tell. Just look at how prevalent Sun Wukong, a Chinese character, is in Korean and Japanese manga and manhwa

@wahidpawana424 10 ай бұрын

It's really weird because I was really hoping for more epic movies like Red Cliff and then... nothing happens with that momentum.

@chingron 10 ай бұрын

The deficiency can be summed up quite easily… the CCP. Hopefully they implode soon.

@herp_derpingson 10 ай бұрын

Dude you guys need to bring back the Kung Fu movies. I watched so many as a child.

@sumayyahadetunmbi4347 10 ай бұрын

yeah

@MeanLaQueefa 10 ай бұрын

Hong Kong is gone and so goes the creative sector. Chinese “anime” is copy and paste of the same stories.

@chuchu7257 Жыл бұрын

As a Chinese person born and raised in China and growing up exposed to both western pop and kpop, I can attest to some of the things you mentioned, like censorship and artists not having full autonomy of their works. But the pop cultures in China, particularly those who have nothing to do with CCP, have always been active (underground rap culture, not the kind of rap videos posted here obviously, c-drama, variety shows, celebrities who compete for attention, memes, viral videos etc.) except it didn't get proper exposure to the west as Japan and Korea did, because the government hasn't planned to export it and benefit from the cultural expansion economically, unlike Japan and particularly Korea who has been promoting their content for decades on a national scale. Our domestic market is big enough for actors and celebrities to earn millions of dollars just by showing up on a few episodes of variety shows or starring in any tv series and make much more money than Korean idols/actors. Korea had always tried to break into China’s market by co-producing shows etc., partly because money is so easy to make in china with just a bit influence with the demographic edge. This trend continued until Korea-china relationship deteriorated in recent years. Then they switched their focus to the west as a result. Plus we have our own separate platforms/apps running and promoting shows/content/music that the west either simply doesn’t have access to or hasn't been aware of their existence even if some of the platforms have international versions, like iq.com. Netflix bought a few shows that probably account for less than 5% of the content we consume daily. We had a certain degree of creativity freedom until recent years, evidenced by award winning movies focusing on gay couples, reflections on past historical mistakes like the cultural revolution (farewell my concubine). The lack of freedom only aggravated in recent years, for obvious reasons, which is sad to see. We have so much potential but because of ideological clashes we may never see the culture as widely spread as japan/korea. To sum up, 1. Censorship, although some of the content that passed the censorship are just as good. 2. Hard to access if you don’t know the language. 3. We don’t export. Our own market has not been saturated yet. 4. The west politicizes everything about China.

@CraigWinstanley1 Жыл бұрын

Excellent comments.

@JolieGirl2002 Жыл бұрын

thank you for this input! I've always felt the western position on china felt too extreme because I have several chinese friends living quite normal lives and wondered if they were privileged themselves or if everything about china was politicised too much. I'm definitely aware of the booming chinese industry and how they're doing fine being insulated because it's similar to my home country where people enjoy media and cultural exports from the west but also are very connected to and preserve our country's culture simultaneously and our entertainment industry is flourishing enough to make artists extremely rich and famous within our country itself, thus the lack of strategised, strong outward export.

@TugaThings Жыл бұрын

Correction on the point 4. - The CCP politicizes everything it touches

@MarkMiller304 Жыл бұрын

China is not exactly friendly with America, I would not be surprised if there was some gate keeping on America’s part on Chinese content. It for sure would not get the same treatment as Japan or Korea which are basically American colonies at this point.

@richardmangelmann4975 Жыл бұрын

@@JolieGirl2002 I honestly think both sides politicize a lot, like you had it with the olympic games for example where ypu had to get CCP approved to get in, its always those big things that get shown in the west where they apply a lot of politics. Or these rap songs released about Taiwan or the cotton fields and all. Everything they want to show the west has politics in it because they feel that way they can manipulate the west into supporting them. Remember the first olympic games in china? Thats how promotion works! People loved it and didnt say much about politics because they only displayed culture mostly, but thats really changed now. They dont purely show culture or people anymore, only what been heavily controlled and approved and thus western media will become even more negative about it. All in all I just really think the CCP doesnt know how to really advertise itself or its country to the outside anmyore and thats casuing issues. I also know china has a booming media culture, but if they want to use that soft power, why dont they grant some access to that once in a while? i want to add tho, I feel like the US is messing up a lot now too, in recent times ive seen less and less good things, only stuff that has been politicized or things that are going wrong. I feel like its starting to become similar with my media intake about that country and many others are seeing this too. I also feel like many big soft power markets are decreasing in popularity a bit. If you present yourself wrong, like both of them are doing now, you lose a lot of favor even if you live there and its not like presented.

@chokwoo5720 27 күн бұрын

To be honest, as a oversea Chinese, I believe we don't really give a F_c_ what you think, we don't really have to kiss sss to be accepted, take it or leave it

@christmasisawesome9348 7 ай бұрын

That got me thinking. I like Korean, Japanese, and Chinese foods. I have visited Japan and South Korea multiple times but never ever thought of traveling to China for leisure. For business? Yeah.

@sara.cbc92 7 ай бұрын

There's an overlap with the 3 cuisines as Korean and Japanese food heavily takes from Chinese.

@bsshow7582 Жыл бұрын

Another thing people don’t mention is that Japanese culture has been present in the west for a long time. Starting from the 1980s with things like Sega and Nintendo they had a really big influence on western media. Things like godzilla, Sony,anime and manga and even Japanese race cars in the 1990s. Also keep in mind most the cars we drive are actually from Japan 😂 like Toyota and Honda etc. So it’s been here for awhile but don’t underestimate the power video games has had on the west.

@oximofo9 Жыл бұрын

You know Sega is an American company? That was reinvested in Japan in the 80s.

@user-zw40ba50o Жыл бұрын

Yes, China copied Japan and created something new

@LynetteMcGrath 11 ай бұрын

After growing up on Disney cartoons, you could say that shows like Robotech in the early 80's were an eye opener.