Rejoice Fat Whores! China is creating a generation of masculine tops!

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SINGAPORE—Under President Xi Jinping, China’s Communist Party has moved to aggressively reassert control over the economy, going after some of the country’s largest private enterprises in a drive to dial back what it sees as the capitalist excesses of a previous era.

Now, the party, which is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding this year, is making it increasingly clear that it intends to insert itself into the private lives of Chinese citizens to an extent not seen in decades.

This week, party officials unveiled tough new limits on the amount of time Chinese young people can spend playing online games. The restrictions come amid a crackdown on pop culture icons and follow moves to sharply limit after-school tutoring.

Taken together, these moves represent a shift in the social contract that existed under Mr. Xi’s two immediate predecessors, in which the party expanded personal freedoms in exchange for acquiescence to the party’s monopoly on politics.

The party says its aim is to more actively shape the next generation of Chinese people.

On Monday, state-run Xinhua News Agency described the new online gaming rules as an effort to “protect the physical and mental health of minors”—a move that came weeks after another state-backed media outlet called videogames “opium for the mind.”

From now on, Chinese regulators said, they would effectively ban minors—those under 18 years old—from playing online videogames from Monday to Thursday, and restrict them to one hour of gaming on the other three nights of the week plus public holidays.

Communist Party leaders have also gone after other influences on the lives of young people that they deem harmful. Among them: for-profit education services that have added to school pressures and a pop-culture industry that Beijing says has fostered an unhealthy culture of celebrity fandom around what state media terms effeminate male stars.

On Monday, Xinhua published a question-and-answer spelling out the government’s rationale behind its new videogame regulations with language that echoed the 20th century Russian idea of a “new Soviet person.”

“The youth represent the future of the motherland,” the Q&A read, adding that ensuring the health of China’s young people “touches upon the nurturing of a new generation of man for the rejuvenation of the nation.”

The government’s recent focus is on children, whom the party says it fears are being inundated with a toxic culture that poisons their minds, isolates them from society and saps young boys of their masculinity.

Mr. Xi signaled the new direction at China’s annual legislative meetings in March, when he told delegates to be wary of addiction to online games and “other dirty and messy things online” that could have a bad influence on young Chinese people.

The country’s powerful internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, kicked off the campaign in June when it announced plans to rein in the culture of online celebrity worship.

On Friday, it banned the ranking of celebrities by name on social-media platforms, saying only their songs and films could be ranked without mention of who created them.

Focus more on the performances, rather than the performers, the guidance said.

To help their favorite stars rise up the rankings on the Twitter -like Weibo platform or on the short-video app Douyin, which is operated by buzzy Beijing-based startup ByteDance Ltd., circles of fans often engaged in frenzied competition to repost, like and comment on content about their favorite idols. Authorities said the competition often led to online trolling and excessive purchases of consumer goods promoted by celebrities.

The ban deals a blow to the entertainment industry, which has developed a business model based primarily on drawing the largest possible fan base—with more followers increasing the exposure for potential brand endorsements.

Chinese authorities have also taken aim at the influence of male celebrities who embrace a gender-neutral style, saying they encourage young Chinese men to be insufficiently manly.

Last week, state-owned newspaper Guangming Daily published a commentary denouncing what it called the spread of niangpao, or “sissy pants,” pop culture.

“The new era needs healthy aesthetics,” the commentary read, referring to the period under Mr. Xi’s leadership. A healthy social culture is crucial “in the critical period for the formation of adolescents’ values,” it read.

The ban deals a blow to the entertainment industry, which has developed a business model based primarily on drawing the largest possible fan base—with more followers increasing the exposure for potential brand endorsements.

Chinese authorities have also taken aim at the influence of male celebrities who embrace a gender-neutral style, saying they encourage young Chinese men to be insufficiently manly.

Last week, state-owned newspaper Guangming Daily published a commentary denouncing what it called the spread of niangpao, or “sissy pants,” pop culture.

“The new era needs healthy aesthetics,” the commentary read, referring to the period under Mr. Xi’s leadership. A healthy social culture is crucial “in the critical period for the formation of adolescents’ values,” it read.

Xinhua’s Monday Q&A on the videogame restrictions called for the public to “better guide minors to actively participate in physical exercise, community life, and a variety of colorful, healthy and beneficial recreational activities.”

The recent moves are part of “a comprehensive social transformation project” that speaks to public hunger for moral direction, said Zhan Jiang, a retired journalism professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. “Such actions can win the hearts of the public,” he said.

It is unlikely to meet much resistance from the companies that benefited most from the earlier status quo. On Tuesday, the team in charge of “Honor of Kings,” the blockbuster role-playing smartphone game owned by Tencent Holdings Ltd. , said it would implement the new restrictions but also went further, saying it would temporarily stop allowing players to access the game offline.

During a quarterly earnings call Tuesday, William Ding, chief executive of internet and game company NetEase, Inc., said the new regulations are a positive development for children’s health and studies, and predicted little financial impact since less than 1% of the company’s revenue comes from gamers under 18.

“We vigorously endorse and support this decision, and will strictly implement it,” Mr. Ding said. “We also hope that the entire industry can actively carry out this decision, allowing China’s minors to grow up in a healthier environment.”

Sum ting wong!

[quote] China is creating a generation of masculine tops!

America creating .... something or other.

Comparing US, Chinese, and Russian Army recruiting.

I lived in China for a year. It's interesting, Chinese guys don't seem to display a lot of the macho behaviours western guys do (bragging, competitiveness, confrontation and so on). There also seems to be a lot less harassment of women in Chinese cities (all the women I worked with during that time felt generally very safe).

On the other hand, I did get the impression that there was a real potential for violence lurking beneath the surface. I remember being at a bar once where a drunk western guy sat himself on stage to play the band's drumkit, and refused to leave, so one of the waiters literally picked up a metal chair over his head and threatened to smash it on him if he didn't get lost.

FYI, at the time (2008) Chinese gay guys I met were generally sweet, sexually innocent and much less experienced, and much less into casual hookups. Instead they all had this silly romantic idea that they were going to more from their backwater province to Beijing to find a nice Western husband. It was actually quite sad to see them competing over the limited number of westerners in the club.

Chinese tops.

I think the Chinese government is eventually going to do something so invasive, out of line and misery inducing that people will snap and riot in the streets. Limiting the amount of time children can play video games seems like a step in the direction, so does this bullshit.

Fuck these clowns

You don't know China. They fear becoming like Japan or South Korea, with 1/2 the boys permanently glued to video games, and the other half constantly looking in the mirror, worrying that they're not pretty enough. They also don't want their students spending 20 hours a day in classes (school + hagwon/academy after). All of that shit makes having kids look unappealing: disappointing, expensive, and overwhelming.

China isn't a nation-state. It's a Confucian (still very much so) civilization. Daddy knows best over there. Any current dynasty = daddy.

The social mindset is Confucian. There's much more social compliance. I doubt there still be much rioting.

[quote] becoming like Japan with 1/2 the boys permanently glued to video games, and the other half constantly looking in the mirror, worrying that they're not pretty enough.

Ie! Bishōnen helped me through tough times in my tortured gay adolescence.

Good! It's about time the Koreans' effy overbeautification of young men is abolished. I'm so sick and tired of this hideous trend. The shithole China's three lifestyle policies are quite good for the younng men though, I must admit.

Japanese & Korean people tend naturally to be more physical attractive than Chinese anyway, but that’s none of my business...

That's your own worthless opinion r16. Don't present it as fact. "tend naturally" Jesus Christ

Well, knowing youth (and remembering my own, long ago) I'm certain that they'll have great success getting teens to flock to the promised state-sponsored “good work full of courage, morality and warmth" and abandon all that nasty "pop-culture industry that Beijing says has fostered an unhealthy culture of celebrity fandom around what state media terms effeminate male stars!"

I assume they're going to roll out the cultural salvation initiative with flying pigs...

China is a scary ass country that wants to micromanage their own people.

China also just banned private equity from investing in homes. Because homes are for living in —not for speculation. Amazing.

Meanwhile they poison our boys with Tik Tok and put fentanyl in everything to try to kill Americans.

[Quote] Japanese & Korean people tend naturally to be more physical attractive than Chinese

Japan and Korea are small homogenous populations compared to the Chinese who number a billion and a half a have vastly different physical types and looks. It's like saying there's one European look.

But of course you may be one of those people who think all Chinese look alike in the way many think all Asians look alike.

"But of course you may be one of those people who think all Chinese look alike in the way many think all Asians look alike."

We only think that during admissions!

"everyone was kung fu fighting"

...........

You can't be Imperial if you've got the swish

Chinese can't have "emasculated" men.

China needs as many men as possible to impregnate billions of Chinese women so China can force them to have abortions!

Farewell, My Concubine!

Fat whores of DL rejoice for food, you uneducated heathen of an OP.

[quote] urging schools to promote sports like soccer with a view to “cultivating students’ masculinity.”

Don’t they get English Premier League broadcasts in China? Players are some of the softest, prettiest, most vain and delicate twunks you’ll see outside of the Royal Ballet (and we love it).

R30, Jack Grealish is pretty? Really? Yikes.

[quote]China is creating a generation of masculine tops!

Is it in?

[Quote] I think the Chinese government is eventually going to do something so invasive, out of line and misery inducing that people will snap and riot in the streets.

I agree with this and I'm shocked that this hasn't been exploited by the US intelligence agencies more often. Using sleeper agents to prod the Chinese government to go over the line seems like a typical tactic they use to create chaos and foment regime change. It's amazing that the Communist leadership have learned nothing from decades of US intelligence interference operations, considering how vocally and publicly opposed to it they are. You can only restrict a population so much and for so long before they snap and fight back against you.

They’re not wrong on this, IMO.

R6, I loved your comment and if you feel like writing more about your experience, I’d love to hear more.

R31? Jack was very cute back when that video was taken (in 2015, he would have been aged just 19 or 20).

Now he’s all grown up and got some miles and some wear & Year on him, he’s more sexy than pretty.

R33, no. Harvard and Gallup found that 95% are satisfied or very satisfied with the government. They have a different understanding of what China, and their government, is for.

[quote] The survey team found that compared to public opinion patterns in the U.S., in China there was very high satisfaction with the central government. In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing. In contrast to these findings, Gallup reported in January of this year that their latest polling on U.S. citizen satisfaction with the American federal government revealed only 38 percent of respondents were satisfied with the federal government.

Harvard and Gallup. Not a government study, free from government influence and oversight.

China is only going to create more resistance from young people.

Chineesh Topsh

NOW I know the meaning of Niang-Pao, their nickname for me when I lived in Chinatown!

R39, do you know China? Because I know China. It's not like that over there. Confucianism is still deeply ingrained.

Will they all get filthy, unkempt 5 inch beards, wear truckers hats, gain 50lbs after 30 and refuse to shower or wipe daily, like our insecure American masculine men did?

what small pp does to a mf

R44, roughly inversely proportional to IQ. I'd rather be smart.