China is not culturally influential like its other Asian neighbors in terms of entertainment.

[Crunchyrunchy]

So for example, Japan has Anime, Manga, Video games which are pretty popular internationally. Those three things even created the phenomenon of Weaboos.

Korea is also in the middle of creating its cultural influence with K-Pop,K-drama and their e-sports scene.There are people in the world that are weaboo or "koreaboo".

However, no one really wants to be Chinese.....

 

[zantac_2]

strong suppression from government would cause a hole in general pop culture. but at the same time, create unique sub-cultures unbeknownst to many people. reading your examples, im confused now whether to believe cpc ideology is a good thing or a bad thing. to be taken seriously, association with stupid richard simmons would be for the better.

what about kung fu? and even more stupider, shaolin kung fu. richard simmons has become too commercialised.

[Guest severus]

Japan and Korea are definitetly more popular in regards to mainstream entertainment, but being 'culturally influential' is much more than that.. Chinese culture has been around for so long that it has embedded itself into the roots of these cultures long ago. 

 

Like @zantac_2 said, bringing things into mainstream culture gives it international attention, but unfortunately Shaolin Gongfu has not only lost its authenticity in the media through commercialization, but the influx of tourists and businesses has taken away from the authenticity of the Shaolin Monestary itself, which has been around for over a thousand years.

You'll know what I mean if you ever visit, and have people dressed as a monks show you some "kung fu" then try to sell you fake red bull. 

I blame Hong Kong for the crappy kung fu richard simmons. HK television is airing another crappy show right now trying to make Wudang martial arts hip. Wudang is a lot of things, it's Taoist, spiritual, historically significant, but HIP IT IS NOT. 

[odaesan]

It's definitely culturally influential. It has had a lot of influence on both Japanese and Korean culture. I think you're thinking of pop culture. Japan has Chinese based writing. Korea has been trying to break away from Hanja and Chinese based phrases, but the influence is so great that it won't happen completely. You can see it in the loss of Hanja reading and writing ability and the preference of native Korean over Sino-Korean phrases.

 

A lot of it has to do with marketing and the ability to market certain pop culture items. Manga and anime has been a large part of Japanese pop culture for years, but it hasn't really taken off in the United States until a few around the early 90s. Even then, there were many problems with localization. Look at the mess that happened with Dragon Ball Z. A subculture of elitists emerged and eventually made the whole localization paradigm change. It took years, but that became the way people saw "pure" Japanese pop culture.

 

In Korea, there are very few music companies. There's really like three or four that control over 90% of the industry. This means that they can define pop music culture. By spending hundreds of millions on select groups and controlling their images, they can choose how and where to market certain things. They control hype. This can extend to acting, which is what is happening now.

 

Oh, and "koreaboo" is a term that was created by the people who run that website. If you check the origins of the term, you'll see that it was posted all over the place at the same time. They're still weeaboos.

[Aziraphale]

Culture goes beyond entertainment. As mentioned, a lot of Japanese and Korean culture have drawn influences from Chinese culture. The earliest kimono, for example, were heavily influenced by Han Chinese clothing (hanfu). Chinese characters came to Japan and Korea via items imported from China. The introduction of Confucian thought into Korea was part of the cultural influence from China and aspects of Confucianism are still very strong in Korea today. Calligraphy in Japan originated from Chinese calligraphy, while Japanese painting also adopted several Chinese elements over the eras. Throughout history, there have been examples of Chinese culture influencing others, and vice versa. Also, just as people are learning Japanese and Korean, plenty others have picked up Chinese.

It is true that many things are distorted through media and commercialisation, but the topic title reeks of ignorance.

[halfmoonsmile]

Never mind.

[Crunchyrunchy]

Culture goes beyond entertainment. As mentioned, a lot of Japanese and Korean culture have drawn influences from Chinese culture. The earliest kimono, for example, were heavily influenced by Han Chinese clothing (hanfu). Chinese characters came to Japan and Korea via items imported from China. The introduction of Confucian thought into Korea was part of the cultural influence from China and aspects of Confucianism are still very strong in Korea today. Calligraphy in Japan originated from Chinese calligraphy, while Japanese painting also adopted several Chinese elements over the eras. Throughout history, there have been examples of Chinese culture influencing others, and vice versa. Also, just as people are learning Japanese and Korean, plenty others have picked up Chinese.

It is true that many things are distorted through media and commercialisation, but the topic title reeks of ignorance.

I finally got around changing the topic. Internationally, China is really behind compared to Japan and South Korea in terms of culture relating to entertainment. Among the teeny bopper masses today, Anime,Manga, Kpop/K-drama certainly has significantly higher international fame.

I think the title is more appropriate.

[raymondc27]

no offence but do you know before japan or korea became culture entertainment, china had been the king during the early stages from pop queen teresa teng and early 90s towards the hk stage with the 4 kings. during the 70s to 90s china had a huge impact towards what is happening today.