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Although it draws on local cultural elements with deep roots, its liberal appropriation of international cultural markers and storytelling conventions has spared it to an extent from associations with Chinese nationalism. Indeed, when developers can’t find appropriate visual reference material for elements of the xianxia canon, they often default to “Westernizing” it.
How Video Games Fueled the Rise of Chinese Fantasy
sixthtone.com
The machine hums and is muffled. It is sacred and profane. It is eradicable and unbearable. And it glows, against the dark.
What the Web Said Yesterday
newyorker.com
Hundreds of years ago, the Japanese language included words for only four basic colors: black, white, red, and blue. If you wanted to describe something green, you’d use the word for blue—“ao”—and that system worked well enough until roughly the end of the first millennium, when the word “midori” (originally meaning “sprout”) began showing up in writing to describe what we know as green. Even then, midori was considered a shade of ao.
This Is Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green
rd.com
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