First Lady

Incidentally, this is China's First Lady, Peng Liyuan. I suggest you lower a bit the volume. The song is intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2YYTqgrMyY

The Chinese people, Chinese language, this Chinese song, and even Chinese cuisine are ugly/shit/horrible. What's your point? That the big guys get the star girls? Here's a better song, for a much more glorious country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKqyg3AzOk

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Dunno, Chinese food seems pretty popular in the West.

Pretty awesome compared to Beijing opera. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9iXlfxpxI

I personally have enjoyed Chinese culture/music/cuisine 4/5 times I've encountered it. Are you looking to get banned to prove your point, or trolling to get recommendations for quality entertainment?

I for one am glad that the PLA song & dance troupes survived the latest round of military downsizing, no doubt thanks to the influence of Peng Liyuan. They are a living communist anachronism and thank god for that. They remain one of the only fonts of high culture and traditional arts alive in China and a source of quality clean entertainment. With the ever increasing commercialization and feminization of mass culture both in China and the West along with it's attendant penetration by Cathedralist memes that has resulted in a wasteland of depravity, it is good that the PLA is willing to stand athwart history and say no. It's amazing how far the the world has fallen when you realize that something like the Red Detachment of Women is more wholesome than 99% of what's shown on television and movies. In addition to it also being geared for an adult audience in contrast to the children's and man-children entertainment coming out of Japan and the stupid teenage girl and their stupider middle aged mothers audience that South Korea courts (excluding the men just there to ogle). Who could have guessed that the original intention of creating an organization to provide ideologically sound and revolutionary inspiring culture would instead turn out to be a vessel for reactionary art thanks to it being under the thumb of the Army bureaucracy.

I heard a rumour that she sang to the troops that saw action in Beijing in 1989. True? Spandrell, I was reading George Friedman's Next 100 Years the other day and he thinks that China is going to weaken. He seems to think that an economic downturn will create a split between the coastal cities and the centre. Either China goes leftist and taxes and punishes these cities - in which case foreign investment etc will leave - or the cities will gain power and will pursue their own economic self-interest. He seems to bank on the former; then, he thinks that Japan will start buying up China and engage in "neo-colonialism". As the century goes on, he thinks that America will get into a war with Japan and Turkey (who form an alliance). The Japanese will go to war because they need resources and because they rely on the shipping lanes - which America controls - they will attempt to knock out America's "battlestars" in space. Pretty far out, though it does sound more sensible when you read it. Still, it seems very unlikely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Next\_100\_Years

Yeah, the suggestion that Russia is going to vanish into mini-states...dubious.

Yes, that was my point. And you started shitting with complete disregard to it. Don't do it again. Nice song tho.

Yeah, not a fan myself.

Indeed. Long term it hardly gets any more reactionary than an Army bureaucracy, but those are always relative terms. You should be happy South Korea shot himself in the foot with THAAD and now Korean cultural exports are suspect.

Japan will start buying up China? Japan? You gotta be kidding me. China has buying up Japanese real estate like crazy for years now. Japan is completely over as a geopolitical force. Erdogan was just licking Chinese ass last weekend. These deep state Jews are just clueless.

Funny since that's what the video made me hungry for. Same was when I get hungry for chicken tikka masala whenever I hear Bollywood music. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

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I thought he used a metronome.

And let's not forget the best anthem ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th-Z6le3bHA

It does seems incredible. Maybe he wrote it with a hidden meaning - Chinese not Japanese.

"What’s your point? That the big guys get the star girls?" THAT's a star girl? Spandrell, you've done another hilarious public service, I'd have never known who the First Lady of China was. 'Not too bad', as you'd say, but still...like she's a would-have-been Peking Opera star with Negro hair. Christ, probably can't even speak fluent Mandarin. This is like 'bad Peking ope-lah' done in cleaned-up North Korean style. So that's what we get culturally if China takes over, oh yeah, can't wait. Chinese food can be great, but you have to search it out (or too much of it tastes the same), but just as with English, German, Dutch, you can't depend on it. Only Italian, French, and Spanish (from SPAIN) are totally dependable. I've actually seen Peking Opera by Taiwanese troupes, and thought it was fabulous. Also, saw a Taiwanese dance troupe do tea ceremonies for an hour and a half a few years ago--hate to admit it, but it was amazing. Of course, Russian enthusiast, ballet is French and Russian esp. the latter. Chinese import the big B'way tourist shows, and their ballet company is not exactly taken seriously. Agree 'yellow men' aren't very cool, but they're not even compensating by being 'nice guy', just greedy and clutching. I have heard some Chinese Classical Music, have it at home, that is beautiful, though. The best over that way is South Indian music and dance, though, Bharatya Natyam, etc., fantastic stuff.

On come on, I bet neither of you has ever seen a full performance. That was a delightful excerpt. Girl was beautiful and sang superbly. Stuff is magnificent, and that movie 'Farewell My Concubine' is very good. Miss Peng is a 'renowned folk singer' and holds a degree in 'ethnic music'. She is also a 'widely acclaimed soprano'. Well, I'm glad to hear it--good pitch and tight smile in her butch outfit, not a trace of nuance anywhere.

I have seen "farewell my concubine." As I recall, and key to the plot, the female parts were played by castrati males. I suppose they use real females now?