Stephen Nielsen's The Age Diamond
Krem
like in the neo-victorian times in Neil Diamond's book The Stephenson Age where poor people cough up soot made from trillions of dead nanobots
as far as i know, a lot of populations have "become" han over time (thousands of years) for example people in the southeast being "nanyue" at some point before the tang dynasty, and a lot of manchu populations becoming han-ified during the qing dynasty and japanese occupation i think.
most of the population is han, but there are 56? officialy recognized indigenous minorities that make up like 10% of the population or so. your ID will have your ethnicity on it for example
antiquated characters
opinion on mainland china discarded
the schooling one has some tiny grain of truth to it imo. compared to western europe at least (don't know about USia), the chinese education system is not great (and east asia in general, taiwan, occupied korea, and japan all seem somewhat similar in this regard but i'm mostly familiar with mainland china).
huge class sizes (understandable), formulaic education style with little individual research or project-presentation, long class hours from early morning to late afternoon, extreme homework loads which means students spend most of their time between class and sleeping doing homework (finish homework/exam revising at midnight or after and are expected to get up at 5:30/6 since classes start at 7. overreliance on studing for exams since the zhongkao and esp the gaokao are like the most imporstand moments deciding your fate
not saying the education system in western europe is great but it has some definite advantages over the one that chinese teens are going through
this looks like outcast
when we were in CQ a few years ago we found a used bookshop that sold old books by the pound, but they were happy to sell us the one book that we picked out, a tourism coffee table book from the 90s about CQ itself. there are so many great pictures in that book, scenes of a city growing up and developing. barely any skyscrapers but already a lot of those giant highrise 90s apartment buildings.
china in the 90s was a different world. Chongqing still looks somewhat similar, i'm sure Chengdu and Changsha etc are completely unrecognizable
Fujian has Min bei (Sanming, Nanping, Wuyi Mt. I think), Min dong (Fuzhou), Putian, Min nan (Quanzhou, Zhangzhou), Min xi (Longyan), and Hakka. That's six different, not mutually intelligible, languages.
Even Zhangzhounese and Quanzhounese, while mostly mutually intelligible, are different enough from each other that they would be called different languages if it was europe (like serbian-croatian, portuguese-galician, czech-slovak, icelandic-faroese, norwegian-swedish etc)
non-cishets are a microscopic niche issue, we need to go back to only discuss cishet people and their issues 99.5% of the time
so traaaaad
also didn't read the article, are they living in a basement that's been subdivided vertically? why is her head hitting the ceiling while sitting down?