But you can see the same themes in actual shows from Mainland China, like the hilarious Divorce Lawyers, or Tiger Mom.
To Celerity's point, you will never see criticism of the government on any Chinese show, the police are all honest and impartial good guys, and the only evil is found in older members of powerful families, who manipulate corporations and their young people's lives with equal facility. Probably true, as far as it goes, but you will never see the Party's elders get any blame - for anything.
Still, young people in China aren't buying into "old-fashioned" Communist virtues in any way - indeed, they seem to be completely ignoring them. A Confucian form of capitalism is the dominant belief system today, because Communism never succeeded in damaging China's culture as much as it did in Russia and Eastern Europe.
——Confucian form of capitalism -—
I have labeled these folks as Chicaps
They are fundamentally business people managing to operate under the existing governance
“Communism never succeeded in damaging China’s culture as much as it did in Russia and Eastern Europe.”
Oh, I WHOLLY disagree here. Recall that even a 100 years ago, Britain was counterfeiting Chinese goods.
China’s economy was gangbusters until the communist party.
—— A Confucian form of capitalism is the dominant belief system today-—
Thanks for that. I now have something descriptive and Chinese to be the root of it all.
One thing that really surprised was the notion of Christianity. In one episode, a grief stricken Xing Ren was actually given a Holy Bible to comfort her as she worried about her mother’s cancer.