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Pining for the good old days of clearing the streets daily of the corpses of opium overdose victims

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Or that time in the 19th century there was a failed “revolution” lead by a theocrat. 30 million dead so you could maybe change who is the head of your feudal society.

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Seems to me like if would have been pretty fucking hard to see that kinda dancing in “China before communism” when 97.7% of women had bound feet prior to the May 4th Movement

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Women’s dance was basically extinct in the Qing Dynasty, aside from peasant dances and those performed by sex workers. So I don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, but it’s at best HIP or folk revival and at worst made up orientalist nonsense.

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this next dance is about the virtues of footbinding

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This next act is entitled “Landlord beating his fourth wife for having an argument with his favorite concubine.”

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A blasted hellscape of insane warlords, Japanese occupiers, western colonial outposts and feudal malaise

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Sima Yi grindset

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I’d imagine they aren’t fetishizng the Qing dynasty but all blurring of all the other dynasties. Also can’t mention how half of those dynasties was China getting conquered by nomads.

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Yknow… the Good ol’ days

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Don’t forget the opium!

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My FIL almost got me tickets to this for Christmas because he knew I was interested in Chinese culture. It was a really sweet gesture from someone who didn’t know better, but I am so glad he got me a 100lb magnet instead.

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Wait what a 100lb magnet? That sounds sick. Tell us more.

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Yeah like is it 100lbs, or can it hold up 100lbs? I’m intrigued by this magnet.

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It can hold up to 100lbs! Thankfully, the magnet itself weighs significantly less. I use it to fish garbage out of the creak, mostly, but sometimes you find something cool like a pocket knife or an old BB gun. My goal is to learn to weld so I can use some of the more interesting chunks of metal that I pull for art projects.

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The magnet itself only weighs about a tenth of that, but it supposedly can lift 100lbs! I drag it across local creaks, ponds and quarries. Haven’t found any 100lb pieces of lake garbage yet, but I am absolutely looking forward to the day it happens.

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