And why are almost all of them written by Westerners?
Is this just a case of the Chinese hating their own country and trying to remain willfully ignorant of its history, or what? It just seems inexplicable that a country with thousands of years of history should be limited to either encyclopedic series that span tens of volumes or single novels that cram even an event as complex as the Three Kingdoms era into 20 pages. And in most cases it's something the author treats as a curiosity rather than an area of expertise, with them not even having been to China and being unable to read the sources in the original Chinese.
Like, what gives? Where are all the biographies about Guan Yu and other famous Chinese figures? Where are all the works focusing on a narrow aspect of the history? And where the hell are all the Chinese scholars? And why do no historical works originating from China get any translations here? Are they just super biased, or what? Or is the Chinese government just uncooperative as fuck?
>Chinese in charge of writing English books on Chinese history
Liam King
焚書
Nolan Rodriguez
Most Chinese history isn't that uplifting and just consists of the peasant masses being oppressed and exploited.
Aiden Allen
>And why are almost all of them written by Westerners?
Ever consider the fact that English isn't the first language of Chinese peope?
Michael Martinez
>Qin A powerful red-haired Caucasoid from the Western frontier uses Western inventions such as the chariot to invade the East and conquers all the yellow-skinned submissive Mongoloids and rules over them. He institutes strict laws and standards throughout his empire to dominate and control his subjects and this leads to the Chinese cultural identity.
>Han Chinese Mongoloid peasants rebel and oust their Caucasoid masters and make a peasant their supreme emperor. Thanks to all the technology and culture brought to them by their Western conquerors, the Chinese experience a golden age.
>3 Kingdoms Constant warfare between a bunch of peasants who want to be emperor. Someone writes a bullshit novel about them 1000 years later making them superheroes.
>Sui then Tang A northern Turkic people called the Xianbei conquer all of China. Tang is another golden age where Western culture is prevalent. For instance, the beauty standard is imported from Caucasoid Turkic northerners and fat lewd chicks are seen as the ultimate sex symbol.
>Liao then Jin Northern steppe warriors invade and conquer half of China and enslave the Chinese population.
>Song The remaining southern half of China.
>Yuan Founded by Genghis Khan (who had red hair according to historical documents) and his Mongolian descendants. They first conquer Jin, which is already foreign-occupied, and then they conquer Song and rape all the Chinese women. Chinese are relegated to the lowest social class in the multi-ethnic Yuan empire.
>Ming Chinese peasants rebel and oust the Mongols. They once again make a peasant their supreme emperor.
>Qing Northern steppe warriors called the Manchu invade and conquer all of China and subjugate the entire population. They force all Chinese men to shave half their head and massacre 30 million Chinese.
>Modern Japan defeats Qing in a war and liberates the Chinese from 300 years of Manchu domination. Later, Japan weakens the KMT, and Communist peasants take over China.
Xavier Adams
>>Qin >A powerful red-haired Caucasoid from the Western frontier uses Western inventions
What the fuck? Zheng was mongolic as fuck
>Genghis Khan (who had red hair according to historical documents) No he didn't you faggot
Fucking american education, I wonder if it's just your country or the rest of the west is as brainwashed as you
Benjamin Foster
>t. Chinese immigrant
Nicholas Ortiz
Cause it's written in Chinese.
David Barnes
FWIW most Chinese diaspora up to the 1980s or so were patriotic as fuck and assimilated well into their adopted countries, because being Chinese at that time was pretty shameful and associated with poverty and despotism (partially due to the Century of National Humiliation). Today their diaspora are more aggressively butthurt and nationalistic due to CCP propaganda about China being a rising global power, even though it's still fundamentally poor and despotic.
Angel Flores
Chinese history is fascinating and fucked up at the same time. Look up the Battle of Suiyang where 30,000 civilians were cannibalized. Or the Jingkang Incident where thousands of royalties including the emperor of China were made into slaves and sex slaves. Or the Taiping Rebellion where a guy who claimed to be the brother of Jesus Christ started an uprising that killed 100 million people. Or Mao Zedong's Four Pests campaign where the Chinese killed all the birds and rats which caused the insect population to explode and decimate all the crops, leading to tens of millions of Chinese starving to death.
Seriously, the Chinese people probably experienced less freedom than any other country in the history of the world. It's as if the Chinese people are nothing but a resource, primed to be exploited at the whim of an all-powerful authoritarian dictator.
Charles Rodriguez
>Seriously, the Chinese people probably experienced less freedom than any other country in the history of the world. It's as if the Chinese people are nothing but a resource, primed to be exploited at the whim of an all-powerful authoritarian dictator.
That's kind of a black and white view of the situation. The Chinese system was always that of the emperor as a benevolent autocrat whose job was to preserve order and social harmony, but if he failed to do so and became an injust tyrant, he would lose the Mandate of Heaven and fall.
Kayden Murphy
What is this old gook talking about? All of the steppe nomads, Chinks, and Japs share pretty much the same lineage. There is no race mixing when you're all the same race.
Evan Bennett
Westerners might look at the Great Wall with awe, but most Chinese simply associate it with an oppressive emperor using forced peasant labor to build the thing.
Austin Phillips
WE WUZ QINGS!
Fucking pathetic whitey trying to claim credit for Chinese history
Liam Cruz
just read mangos
Cameron Rodriguez
because Chinese have been repeating a pile of scrap such as Cultural Revolution, right?
Gavin Russell
I agree.
Brayden Gomez
>t. Chinese immigrant
Chase Harris
Japan gives China history? how pathetic.
James Hernandez
It's what happened to Russia, but on a smaller scale. Communism reduced them to animal level where you had to stab each other in the back to survive.
Ryder Sullivan
I tohught japs hated China but also respected their history
Luis Collins
theres tons of that here. im sure japan is the second biggest country that consumes it before china. and partly, japan has covered a wider range of genres of it since theres no censorship and are aesthetics china cant have because of it
