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Topic: news A More Western China? 4 Areas Where the West Has Impacted China

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GuestBob
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I think the idea that China is "grasping Western influences and making them [its] own" is going to become increasingly true in the next few years. The "diaosi" phenomenon is an indication that certain sections of Chinese society are moving straight past Generations X & Y and crashing headlong into Z. Modernity giving way to postmodernity. Take "Chinese Christmas" as an example: stripped of religious connotations, Christmas in China is a urban, youth led celebration of fashionable consumption. This ironic and playful borrowing of the very "worst" parts of the tradition is exactly the kind of cross-cultural reinvention that characterises other, more historically open countries in Asia. Of course, none of this is true if you grew up in a small town in Gansu.

Nov 04, 2013 08;26
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