This is the exact kind of thing where the ignorant Chinese will be happy that Chinese things are being stolen and made into some fusion element to spice up somebody else's creation.  It's like they are thinking, "See see! Us Chinese are cool.  This video says so."  These kinds of ignorant Chinese don't know the real reason why their stuff is being stolen.  Dummies, it's not because they agree with your stuff and want to make it mainstream it is because they think it is exotic and want to play with it as a pet project kind of thing and keep it in the margin.  After that it becomes just another used condom.

While this music video doesn't make me proud because it is offering a very clear message about the ancient traditions in China, a fraction of them mind you, it doesn't really have an issue of misrepresentation.

Yea I agree. The thing is the idea that a western video is going to make a Chinese cool is a reflection of the desire to improve the Chinese kind's lot when there was little chance being offered in the first place. Us Chinese aren't loaded with coolness in the music vids and movies created by non Chinese because other people look down on us a great deal where it counts. I remember when I made the best grades with the most stunning written reports in school and students and teachers were impressed. They genuinely commented. But how does that fly in the real world? Not very good because people denature from goodness and become evil due to social pressures. If they see that they can push a Chinese down, they will. They will chuckle when something doesn't go your way, they will have intricate thwarting plans if they see you taking initiative on projects. They will tell you not to have ideas. So it's a complete long shot and remotely possible where any director, even a Chinese one, is going to want to try making a big budget movie that claims a sexy suave action hero can be Chinese because even Chinese won't believe in it.

The only way which can revolutionize the Chinese is when the country of origin, China, has something revolutionary and indispensable for the world.  So I get why The Martian or Looper are good examples where Chinese are finally given a nod.

Because I'm tired of Chinese diaspora identifying with Joy Luck Club or Eat Drink Man Woman or saying Lee Ang is the shit in Hollywood.

One other thing, I notice the American MSM is actively targeting and socially engineering Chinese/Chinese Americans through the insemination of "Western neoconservative/neoliberal values". Luckily, FB, YT, Instagram, Google, NYT and FT are blocked in China so they can't:
1. Brainwash and create inferiority complexes/drug addiction on Chinese youth/school students with their fake news
2. Overload Chinese with their stupidity and make them waste their time with pointless drivel; why should young Chinese be force fed Justin Bieber's mischief or the Kardashian's asses, treating them like some form of demigods?
3. Expose Chinese to the millions of anti-Chinese trolls so that Chinese will spend their times unproductively fighting these trolls?

The Zionist American media keeps irresponsibly telling the world that Uhmuhrika iz da bezz cuhntry in da world. It's pretty infectious, like a disease this rhetoric. When I visit my relatives in China, my young cousins always tell me how cool it is that they have an "American" cousin and how I'm living in the best country in the world. They're between five to ten so there's no way I can explain to them it's not all Wall-E, Frozen or the next "American originated" (LOL because most of it is stealing from other cultures) sensation hitting China.

Generally, it's a very racist place and Sinophobia is widely accepted there. Older Chinese and those that studied there understand what I mean and see through the propaganda. It'll be even better if they can see the Jewish American puppet master behind this propaganda. Jews are the perfect example of why Chinese shouldn't support NAMs. Like most non-Chinese, these people take us for granted, don't value/understand the Chinese concept of reciprocity and would gladly stab us in the back if they had to.

And yes, Ang Lee is overrated. The Joy Luck Club would be  very insidious because it pretends to be a voice of reason, stereotyping and criticizing Asian American culture. I think it's actually the cause of many social ills and sufferings afflicting Asian Americans. The JLC is just a deceptive tool to perpetuate racist American stereotypes of Chinese people packaged nicely because the author is "Chinese"

The solutions given by the Joy Luck Club are nothing groundbreaking either since it's just the same old divide and conquer strategy Americans like to use on the Chinese. Note how all the solutions center around leaving the what I call Chinese inner circle or culture behind for the 'white' American one. A white person could have written the same book but the intention would be too obvious without their Amy Tan trojan horse

Joy Luck Club is just another one of many attempts by Americans to destroy the Chinese nuclear family unit and socio-cultural connections. That's all.

You can tell the family in China that unless they get China to superimpose the stuff of legends, that the western media often portrays it as, with real revolutionary progress (and not just gdp growth) then people will continue to take Chinese anywhere with a grain of salt.  They will just say, they are hard working and not talented, they are nerds, they are copy cats, they share everything under one roof like the biggest power dam for the whole country, one big wall, one big rich city representing tons of poor cities, etc. etc.

I don't really feel the pressure of the Anglo Saxons because I see the force of balance at work. Those neo nazis and kkk types are immediately given retribution for their acts and views by swift and determined leaders of their communities. The US is also in recognition of China as the leader in the east as they want China to ease the aggression of North Korea even while China and US are at odds in the South China Seas arena of conflict.

2 things are certain. Europe is slowly diminishing in its western cultural hegemonic power while the US takes over the reins and China is undisputed in the east with its incredible economic strength. How this plays out will be very interesting.