[granada]

“young shouldn’t read The Water Margin, and the old shouldn’t read The Three Kingdoms”
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Have the two dangerous novels ever been banned by PRC China government?
No?
Or the two novels help government get the ideas on how to deal with crisis and unrest?

[Zhang Fei]

[Have the two dangerous novels ever been banned by PRC China government?
No?
Or the two novels help government get the ideas on how to deal with crisis and unrest?]

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Hard to ban novels that Mao himself claimed as instruction manuals. Besides, Chinese sword and sandal epics on TV cover much of the same ground, but in greater detail. They keep getting fed pablum but they keep revolting. The Chinese are degenerate gamblers. Maybe that’s one of the reasons for the large number of insurrections.

Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket had an amusing line - if I’m gonna die for a word, my word is poontang. My impression is that any new ructions will be over who gets to replace Xi rather than something high flown like one man one vote.