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What does /lit/ think about Xi Jingpings favourite books?

>> No.19602412
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19602412

> War and Peace
Utterly boring that belongs to a boring little man.

>> No.19602421

>>19602379
>World Order
as in by Kissinger? lmao

>> No.19602527

> Federalist Papers
I am very surprised by that pick.

>> No.19602568

>>19602379
Uh. Where the fuck is Journey to the West, Pooh Bear?

>> No.19602588

wtf, i've read most of these, why aren't i the dictator of China?

>> No.19602605

>>19602379
I think famous and powerful people like to use literature as a garnish for their public image. Nobody will be able to ever tell otherwise, but it seems like pretty much everyone who got power likes to appear well-read. It's as easy as easy gets to name drop some author or philosopher (from one of many quote databases, depending on how cynical you want to get) and because a speech is never actually about that reference, the casual observer kind of just notes the fact that there was a reference and moves along with the speaker to their next, usually unrelated point. Our brains fill in the gap and we let the implication of erudition become a substitute for erudition itself. Tell me, do you think Xi writes his own speeches?

>> No.19602645

>>19602379
As this is obviously only propaganda, the real question is how some of these books ended up on the list. For example, the Marxist-Leninist books are there for political reasons and I guess they indicate what kind of policies Pooh Bear is pushing or want to seem to be pushing. War and Peace, The Republic and all that Shakespeare is there to make him look well read and intellectual.

Now why would someone put a basic ass book like The Call of the Wild on that list? Is it one of his favourite books? Or is he trying to dispel the idea that the Chinese spend most of their time eating or torturing dogs? Who knows.

>> No.19602646

>>19602379
>no mention of 1984
Westerners eternally btfo

>> No.19602764

>>19602588
Because you weren't born to CCP aristocrats like Xi.

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>>19602379
>General Theory
Another soul corrupted.

>> No.19603258

Utterly based. Name 1 (one) US president that was this cultured and educated. Pro tip: you can't.

>> No.19603335

>>19603258
Bill Clinton, despite being a spineless centrist politically, is actually a fairly erudite man.

>> No.19603339

Why do politicians always pull this very basic shit
At least put one vaguely obscure author in there

>> No.19603355

>no taoism
o it shows!

>> No.19603376

>No Cao Xueqin
>No Lu Xun
What a shit taste

>> No.19603979

>>19602379
Why Shakespeare? He was basically a linguistic anarchist.

>> No.19604071

>>19602379
He likes Lermontov and Sholokhov eh. Well at least the second one is not surprising, if you know. Also I assume Hugo’s Ninety-Three is more popular in China than in the Anglosphere

>> No.19604124

>>19603355
Or does it?!

>> No.19605395

Dude has a middle school education. You think he's read a page of any of these?

>> No.19605486

>>19602379
>Almost all Western stuff, with a few normie Chinese books
I am surprised

>> No.19605499

>>19605395
he is an engineer, what are you talking about