www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/world/asia/north-korea-china-defectors.htmlK-drama, the ultimate symbol of resistance. Epic.
North Korea keeps itself cut off from the internet and sends these highly trained specialists to do work in China, Southeast Asia and elsewhere to avoid international sanctions imposed on the country for its nuclear weapons program. The specialists usually live together in dormitory apartments, where they are instructed to spy on each other. Their North Korean minders look for signs of disloyalty - like watching K-dramas.
For some reason Chinese people (and their sphere of influence such as Japan) are obsessed by numbered lists, e.g. stuff like Four Beauties, Four Treasures of the Study and so on!
The concept does exist in the West (e.g. The Seven Wonders of the World), but clearly the Sinosphere is much more obsesse by it!
Plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum Chinese painting by Zheng Xie
. Source. This is an example of bird-and-flower painting, of which the Four Gentlemen are a common theme. TODO date.Japanese Brazilians are either model children, or they're good for nothings. There is no intermediate.
As of 2020 (TODO starting when) the Chinese government officially recognizes 55 minorities.
These minorities actually had different legal statuses, e.g. they were exempt from the One Child Policy.
Indian classical musician by instrument by 
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01 Classical Indian musical instrument by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
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