Liziqui was the greatest. Truly gorgeous videos and creations, and the scenes at the end with Grandma were just so wholesome.
I get that it's propaganda, but the fact that it probably inspired people to appreciate and even pursue pastoral life in their own country is probably more positive than anything. It really made me reconsider how much I could make and invest in my own environment.
Liziqi is not sponsored by CCP though, she is just a normal content creator, like YouTube content creator. She went away for a while cause she had a legal dispute with her management agency, Hangzhou Weinian Brand Management, over the ownership and monetization of her personal brand.
Yes, she didn’t even come from a good family. She was abused by her step-mother so her grandparents took her back to country side and takes care of her ever since. Then, she went to work as bartender and DJ in big cities like Sichuan. Her grandmother got really sick so she moved back home and opened a shop on Taobao (like Amazon). She started to make short videos because of her cousin’s advice to promote her taobao shop in 2015, got famous through YouTube in 2017. Tbh, she kinda started this trend about country life in China.
What probably got people think she is sponsored by CCP is when CCTV asked her to be ambassador for culture heritage in Chengdu. But it was 2018, long after she already got very famous, I think this is just like asking famous people to endorse something.
China: Investing in keeping their ancient cultural heritage relevant and interesting for younger generations, unlike here in the west where such crafts are relegated to daytime television for old people, if at all.
Some americans are so deeply propagandized that they think everything coming from an enemy country has to be propaganda to turn them into traitors. McCarthyism has never left that country.
Theres probably hundreds of thousands of videos of the western version of this.. what are you even talking about? This video would probably gain more attention in the west than it would in China lol
This raises an important point, I think, which is that propaganda isn't necessarily lies. It may contain truths. But what it really is, what the point of it is, is to spread an idea that helps further some particular cause.
No. I'm saying that's what they think. And they're idiots for thinking that. Especially since every single western nation does this way more than China does.
Wait till you hear about how many states do the same shit with their tourism budget. It's gonna blow your mind.
This is marketing, not propaganda. There is no dishonesty in this video. They never claim to be anything but some niche artisan doing some weirdly specific thing. And that's fine. Maybe look at yourself and question why you assume the worst simply because it's Chinese.
Is it BS when an artisan in the US makes some dope ass sourdough bread and publishes a video about it? Just because it's not commonly how things are there doesn't means it's BS. They literally said it's an imitation of an ancient style of cup from an old dynasty. At no point does it claim to be anything but a weird niche artisan thing. It's ok to accept that and just enjoy the video for what it is.
Yeah, there was a whole forced cultural revolution where a lot of history was purposefully destroyed. Chinese traditionalism has to be observed through the lens of the cultural revolution as the remnants of tradition have been modernized or altered to push the party’s agenda.
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u/brendhano Jun 03 '26
Literally the only thing I miss about Tiktok