HELLO PLEASE STATE YOUR FAVORITE BOOK TO RECEIVE YOUR SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE

Why, the analects of course.

Lolita

À rebours

Journey to the West.

Bridge of Birds.
Fuck Confucianism and fuck the State.

>not hairy pooper

*buzzer of failure rings*
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SAY DENG XIAOPING. -500,000 CREDIT

I CANNOT READ

All of this guys works

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the art of the deal

As a Chink living oversea on a student visa, I am genuinely worried about what sort of score I'm going to get if I go homw.

You must be relatively wealthy, which is probably most of the battle tbphwy

Should I go on an exchange semester in China?
I'm learning Chinese alongside Economics and Finance, I could also be going to Tsinghua uni (the best Chinese uni). Part of me doesn't want to spend a dollar in a country that still does shit like re-education camps but the other part of me sees it as an opportunity to be like Herodotus.

I can't choose between the Tianaman Square Massacre and Orwell's 1984.

Yes, China's a good time.

>Part of me doesn't want to spend a dollar in a country that still does shit like re-education camps
You're buying stuff from China all the time anyway.

It depends. If you want to actually learn stuff, don't go. English language classes in Chinese universities are huge memes.

Outside of Beida/Tsinghua/Fudan, it's not even worth considering. At those three(and Tsinghua is behind Beida, sorry), it's worth it if you want to have a resume that catters to China. Like most expats, you won't manage to learn Chinese anyway.

If you want to learn Chinese, better do your exchange in a valuable university in Europe like HEC/Bocconi or whatever and then spend the summer in Taiwan with the Huayu scholarship.

>You're buying stuff from China all the time anyway.
very fair point
My degree requires four papers in a language. I've done one in Chinese so far which covered around 200 characters. By the time I'd exchange I'd have done two more papers (doing the final one in China). I feel like I can get to a good level albeit definitely not as good as a Latin language learner could in the same time.

Sorry I'm not familiar with the US system and I don't know what you mean by "200 characters essays". If that's the amount of Hanzi you know, it's completely useless. You stop feeling like Champollion and can actually "read" a text starting without too much blanks starting from 2500 hanzi/8000 vocab.

If that's the size of your essays well, that's not very long

As someone working in China (Beijing), a semester can be fun and a real learning experience, but anymore than 4-5 months and you'll start getting real sick of the place and the people.

Oh I'm not American and by 200 characters I didn't mean essays. We've just learned enough words, phrases etc to cover that many characters. I can get a good conversation going so far.

How did you deal with the air?

Worth adding that just knowing individual characters is only a small part of actually being able to read (let alone writing, speaking and listening)

Not my experience. I'm sure there are plenty of disgruntled expats in China (Lord knows there are enough on the internet), and there's definitely truth to the 'honeymoon phase' cliche, but I always enjoyed it overall, and that was over quite a few years altogether.

I should try and clarify how we learn. We follow a textbook that is heavily conversational based rather than a traditional 'grammar up' approach academics use. Each week we covered a topic such as family or hobbies in small groups of around 25 people which generated around 20-30 new characters a week. Of course, characters come up more than once so it's hard to translate how many characters I know into how many words I know or sentences I can make.

>I can get a good conversation going so far
1. With actual Chinese people outside the classroom? If not, you'll find that's... a bit different
2. Without wanting to piss on your chips, you should be aware of the learning curve element here. Starting from zero, you'll feel like you're learning a shit-ton every day- because, look, on the second day you've already doubled your knowledge of Chinese! That curve will level off pretty quickly- I wouldn't expect to become at all fluent unless you're putting in full working days over at least three years, really.

It's really not much user, that's why I said that if you go to China to follow classes in English you probably won't have a good enough foundation in the language to be able to climb the ladder.

From my own experience, the best way to learn is just to absorb as many vocab in context as you can with Anki and practice reading and speaking. Look up Chinese Text Analyzer it makes life much much easier. Then throw 8 dollars an hour to a peasant girl on Italki to practice speaking.

Textbooks are a scam, nobody ever learned a language using them. Except if you're a good autodidact and know what you're looking for in a given book.

-100

The Horse and His Boy

Hunger games

> Communist Manifesto! (provides book, receives credit score)
> (uses credit score to acquire another book, returns to the funny teddy bear man)

> Capital! (provides book, receives credit score)
> (uses credit score to acquire more books, returns to the man)

> The Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels! (provides books, receives credit score)
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> tfw lvl 99 Chinese citizen

I am not really sure that complete trading in social credit is not an ultimate goal of the system. It's, like, a future economy of ethics you can analyze and predict.

(lol no, it's gonna blow up harder than most people expect)

I HATE ANIME AND I ONLY WATCH COOKING SHOWS PROVING THE SUPERIORITY OF CHINESE CUISINE ALSO I DONT READ BOOKS THEY ARE FOR REACTIONNARY BOURGEOIS plz give me good boy points

Felicitations, president Xi.

As for me, my favorite book is the Governance of China (both volumes). I've found their English language edition to be a helpful guide to understanding China's plans for the 21st century. Kind regards, an American

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The Old Man and the Sea

have sex, incel

The Count of Monte Cristo
a very comfy read

I hope china asserts itself in Australia so I can live out my fantasy of living in an oppressive hyper technological totalitarian state. I like to fuck around with tor and other cybsec shit but its pretty much unnecessary unless you're downloading kiddie porn or buying drugs, even buying (not selling) drugs you're pretty safe with just tor.

trying to keep your social credit high while doing subversive shit would be genuinely fun.

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Mein Kampf

The Dark Road by Ma Jian. What'choo going to do about it, ching chong?

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.

Please, I beseech you, praise president Jinping and have mercy on me! It was only a fun sci-fi adventure grounded in reality that had a particularly broad scope with an accompanying film that showcases some of the book's most iconic scenes! I only want to be able to eat at the nice restaurants and use the convenience store late at night!

The Winds of Winter by GRRM

It's too bad Deleuze and Guattari weren't both immortal, they'd BTFO Land pretty quickly if they were alive today.

Freud’s Essay on the Theory of sexual development. He was the only one who could understand my relationship with my mother...

Catch 22 and white noise

This post has been determined to be insincere, minus 50 points.

>Textbooks are a scam, nobody ever learned a language using them. Except if you're a good autodidact and know what you're looking for in a given book.

Modestly disagreeing with this, especially for Chinese.

Textbooks are indeed pretty garbage, but at some point you're going to want to practice handwriting characters, and when that time comes, copying from free reading is a mediocre-bad source (no structure to your practice), apps are absolutely useless, and anki/memrise cannot help you.

When you reach this point, the exercises and examples as presented in textbooks are critical for your development.

this desu

the whole thing about reading too many books is harmful resonates with me deeply. it took me a long time to realise being too open isn't a good thing. allowing too much information and influences into your life isn't detrimental to development. sure you are being "open minded" but in order to progress towards your goals and become a disciplined accomplished individual, it is necessary to trim and weed out the unnecessary. through the individual and more broadly, on a political scale, it's important to suppress intervening forces which are not ideal for your own goals. if china needs to suppress democratic voices and threats to their ideology, i'm all for it.

to become strong, you have to be laser focused on the one ideal. that is how you achieve greatness.

** is detrimental

the Mozi

Is nobody going to give us our score?
James clavell taipan

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

With current China, saying Deng Xiaoping or Keynes would probably get you a better score than saying Marx.

Old Man and the Sea is actually one of the books Xi Jinping claims to have read as a kid and inspired him to read. Though he grew up during the Cultural Revolution so I don't know how true it is.

the unconsoled

yeah bro I love getting bulldozers to turn bodies into mush and wash it down the drains with hoses after a successful day at the square

Nigger Book by Clayton Bigsby

wanna know how I know you huff your own farts?

The Tiananmen Square massacre is greatly exaggerated. The only real evidence of a massacre are the "eyewitness" reports of a bunch of CIA assets. The chinese government exercised saintly patience with the antifa tier faggots at Tiananmen Square. Less than a hundred people died there and most of them were the cops themselves. Even the photographer who took the famous tank man picture admitted he took that picture on June 5th (the massacre supposedly took place on the 4th), when the tanks were all leaving because the situation was negotiated and deescalated. There are other pictures taken at the same time with more context and there are lines of tanks all leaving because the party's over. I was honestly disappointed to find out how big of a pussy the chinese government was when they dealt with the rioters.

unz.com/article/tiananmen-square-1989-revisited/

Thank you for educating these retards

>China literally implemented DKP in real life

What a time to live in

Pride & Prejudice.

Falun Zafa