Off topic - My question is about Chinese culture as portrayed in
Chinese web novels. Many of the novels (translated from Chinese to
English) I've read seems to revolve around the concept of advancing
one's martial arts and cultivation prowress in order to grow stronger
either to dominate everyone else or to keep from being dominated by
someone else.
But how widespread is that in Chinese culture actually? How much
credibility should one give to that specific portrayal of Chinese
culture?
On 10/7/22 10:40, John wrote:
Off topic - My question is about Chinese culture as portrayed in
Chinese web novels. Many of the novels (translated from Chinese to English) I've read seems to revolve around the concept of advancing
one's martial arts and cultivation prowress in order to grow
stronger either to dominate everyone else or to keep from being
dominated by someone else.
But how widespread is that in Chinese culture actually? How much credibility should one give to that specific portrayal of Chinese
culture?
Have you run into Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne lately in the USA?
These are fictions and the stuff about excelling at Martial Arts is
an old theme. It might inspire children. Not sure of the Cultivation
because I don't read much Chinese stuff. Simply too much manga to
keep up with. Is the Cultivation about increasing Chi or Ki energy?
bliss
Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 10/7/22 10:40, John wrote:
Off topic - My question is about Chinese culture as portrayed in
Chinese web novels. Many of the novels (translated from Chinese to
English) I've read seems to revolve around the concept of advancing
one's martial arts and cultivation prowress in order to grow
stronger either to dominate everyone else or to keep from being
dominated by someone else.
But how widespread is that in Chinese culture actually? How much
credibility should one give to that specific portrayal of Chinese
culture?
Have you run into Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne lately in the USA?
These are fictions and the stuff about excelling at Martial Arts is
an old theme. It might inspire children. Not sure of the Cultivation
because I don't read much Chinese stuff. Simply too much manga to
keep up with. Is the Cultivation about increasing Chi or Ki energy?
bliss
Comparing those comic book characters with the impression I have of
Chinese characters is a red herring. The results of their motivations
lead to completely different plots and story telling. If I were to extrapolate from the Chinese stories I've read to Chinese society as a
whole, you might decide the picture they present is a real-life society
that is focused on the premise that might makes right and that is the
only basis for relationships among people. I enjoyed cultural
anthropology, but my teachers were clear about the pitfalls of such
mental exercises, which is why I asked what I did.
wrt the cultivation, in some stories yes, but I don't understand it
much at all. And I zone out once the author goes into too much loving
detail about how many major and minor divisions of a cultivation level
there are and keeping track of the variety of names used and just when
you think someone may have topped out their cultivation level, the
author introduces even higher levels to which the character can aspire
to reach. I quit reading those sooner or later because that is not why
I read the story to begin with.
There are only three manga I like reading that I think are >written for
the Chinese audience - "Versatile Mage", "Apotheosis" and "Star Martial
God Technique". I've read some others, but that was only for awhile
and have forgotten their names.
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