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I’m convinced people bring up 1984 and Animal Farm just to try and look smart. I wonder how many of them have actually read those books.
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I mean, it does work as anti-capitalist piece, no? Even if it wasn’t author’s intention.
I read it long before becoming a marxist and I did interpret it as against the system we currently live under (i didn’t know what capitalism or communism was at the time). Only found out the author’s intention from looking it up online.
spoiler: they both suck ass
Some of them, I’m sure. They’re required reading in a lot of American high schools. I didn’t have to read either of those, but I did have to read Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World which are basically the same thing.
Well actually, I skimmed their summaries on cliffsnotes haha. And I’m willing to bet most of these literature understanders did too.
Imagine being kid in USA and be forced to read that bullshit
During summer break too! Literally 1984.
how many of the people who read them can make the analogy of the spy thingy in oceania with google gnome or alexa…
China: does literally nothing
Reddit: it must be because they are evil!
Out of all the things that did not happen, this one probably did not happen the most.
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“(Had ghost writers for sure)” No, he’s done a lot of speeches and had them compiled.
That last person absolutely reeks of western superiority.
I understood them as saying “Chinese people aren’t interested in a random foreign book so why would it be banned anyway”
Their perspective makes sense to me. Streisand effect and all that
Except the fact that Orwell is very well read by Chinese people along with Huxley, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, and a myriad of other foreign authors. You will commonly find foreign books recommended in schools, not even just as curriculum, but just as material for students to broaden their horizons.
Hence the revolting “Western Superiority” attitude that Chinese people are nationalistic and closeminded, and don’t care about foreign books. When ironically, that is exactly how Americans are.
That makes me wonder whether OP really did go to college in China. Maybe they went to an anglophone one in Hong Kong or Taiwan. (Or more realistically they’re just lying on Reddit)
The disconnect is stunning 🥴😵💫
“china not really having a drive go read random western literature without a compelling reason” bc everyone know that average american likes to read books from other countries randomly!
