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Subject: Re: Critics that are lost???
Date: May 31, 2009
Early in his career, Zhang Yimou may have been criticized by the CPC, but he has obviously turned completely about and now blatantly propagandizes on their behalf. I'll leave it up to you to figure out why. Hero is so obviously a piece of Maoist propaganda. Why are you trying so hard to deny the obvious, Brian?
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Re: Critics that are lost???
"Uh, it's Zhang Yimou who's maintaining the status quo by sucking up to the current dictatorship. His blatant brown-nosing is downright embarrassing."
I am sorry, but have you seen any of his other films that criticize CPC policies and end up getting banned in China? Your entire argument is a logical fallacy, all of Zhang's films are praised when they question CPC policies, but he suddenly decide to agree with CPC's stance, he is some how labelled as a communist mouth piece? What kind of BS is this?
"So what exactly was this "greatest good" achieved by Qin Shi Huang? Before his reign of terror, China had experienced a golden age of literature and art. After his bloody wars of conquest and brutal reign of terror, during which he murdered untold numbers of innocent people and burned every library he could, China entered a literary and philosophical dark age from which it did not recover for several centuries. Great legacy!"
I am sorry, but you are a poor bastard who needs to brush up on your Chinese history. Before Qin, China was divided into 7 states that has been at war for almost 500 years. After Qin, China enjoyed 1500 years of dynastic rules. If I am not mistaken, during this period, China soared in science, wealth, and population when Europeans were still in THEIR dark age.
"FYI, Qin Shi Huang has traditionally been regarded in China as a villain. Mao Zedong, however, tried to turn him into a hero in order to justify his own despotic lust for power and territorial expansion. The fact that this movie is repeating Mao's tactic ought to tell you something about its intentions and implications."
FYI, Mao has been revered in China for almost 50 years, does that make him any less of a failed leader and idiotic policy maker? Just because Qin upset Confucian scholars by promoting legalism doesn't mean he is any more villainous than all the other equally ruthless Emperors who are praised for promoting confucism.
"Anyway, individual liberty isn't just a Western idea. You can find plenty of analogues for this idea in China and elsewhere throughout East Asia going back centuries. (There are elements of this idea in certain strains of Taoism, for instance.)"
Please find me one source where individual liberty trumped over the state in any traditional literature, if mentions of it even exists.
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Comment index:
Hero from Emily, Aug 25, 2004
truth from What's American, Sep 7, 2004
thanks from barb, Aug 28, 2004
Awesome from Dan Omlor, Sep 13, 2004
Re: But from skeptikos, Dec 26, 2004
hero from tso t'an, Feb 21, 2005
» Re: Critics that are lost??? « from Gil Barrett, May 31, 2009
ask from mujahid, Mar 31, 2006
Re: ask from Bubba Hotep, Apr 11, 2006
??? from Kessel, Nov 4, 2007
Bravo from tsering, May 29, 2010
Hero from Emily, Aug 25, 2004
truth from What's American, Sep 7, 2004
thanks from barb, Aug 28, 2004
Awesome from Dan Omlor, Sep 13, 2004
Re: But from skeptikos, Dec 26, 2004
hero from tso t'an, Feb 21, 2005
» Re: Critics that are lost??? « from Gil Barrett, May 31, 2009
ask from mujahid, Mar 31, 2006
Re: ask from Bubba Hotep, Apr 11, 2006
??? from Kessel, Nov 4, 2007
Bravo from tsering, May 29, 2010
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