>>64111848
>this is partly the result of the cultural devolution where maos gangsters
>>64111897
>Taiwan shows what mainland china could be with the traditional culture surviving
Nah. You've got it backwards. Taiwan has a different culture being this island that had Japanese influence. This is the same problem that people think about the USSR, that the country was some merry band of people who didn't do these things before the communists showed up. Mao and the communists were actually very Chinese in reality, and didn't really change that much. It's not the case. It was basically Morrowind and those traditional martial artists were gangsters.