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== Film ==
* ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]'' is of the first type.
** In ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'', Blofeld is implied to be working for Red China.
** Notably averted in ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]].'' That is, China exists as a possible enemy, but Wai Lin and Bond never really discuss or debate politics. Both China and the UK were being manipulated into war by a third party, and in the end the villain was exposed, his own forces destroyed, and everyone just went home.
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]''
* The first version of ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]''.
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== Literature ==
* ''Matt Helm'' series by Donald Hamilton. Mr. Soo was an Red Chinese agent specializing in scientific espionage and sabotage. He appeared in ''The Menacers'' and ''The Poisoners'', and was mentioned in ''The Interlopers''.
* The [[James Bond (Literaturenovel)|James Bond]] novel ''Colonel Sun''
* In the ''[[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider]]'' series, Red China is briefly implied to have been [[The Man Behind the Man]] (or at least one of) in regards to Herod Sayle, {{spoiler|though it turned out it was [[Nebulous Evil Organisation|Scorpia]].}}
* ''[[Dreams of Joy]]'', the sequel to ''Shanghai Girls'' by Lisa See, takes place during the Great Leap Forward and is about a Chinese-American girl who goes to China to meet her long lost father.
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' has Jack Bauer attack the Chinese Consulate in Season Four, where the Consul is shot in the crossfire. At the end of Season Five, Jack is kidnapped by Chinese agents and put on a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|slow boat to China]]. He is returned at the beginning of Season Six.
 
== Video Games ==
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** Although which category the Chinese faction falls into is never really specified, as they seem to take a vaguely nationalistic stance, if anything. However, they support the populist and presumably Marxist [[La Résistance]] and are willing to butt heads with the West, so the first form is at least implied.
* Receive a cursory mention in ''[[World in Conflict]]'' when you are told Red China has entered the war on the same side as the Soviet Union, with the Chinese army on its way to Seattle. [[MST3K Mantra|Best not to think too hard about how the late 1980s Chinese army intended to accomplish that]].
* [[Command and Conquer Generals (Video Game)|Command and Conquer Generals]] features, oddly enough, a combination of the two varieties. Chinese society is clearly of the second type, which makes sense, as the game takes place ([[Canon Dis Continuity|unlike all the other Command & Conquer games]]) in our timeline during the 2020s, but their military, with its [[Zerg Rush|tactics]] and units, is based inaccurately on that of the first type, and is considered so hyperbolic that the game was actually [[Banned in China]].
** [[All There in the Manual|Not that it is seen in the game]] but the background mentions that China's new generation leaders enacted a whole set of reforms and civil liberties. It still has the traces of authoritarianism but there is an implication that by 2020s China is a relatively free society with a militaristic bent like the United States, making it a wholly different type.
 
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** ''The World'' ( 世界) is about the employees of a tacky theme park near Beijing,
** ''Still Life'' (三峡好人) is about people evicted from their homes by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
* ''The Orphan of Anyang'' (安阳婴儿) by Wang Chao is about a laid-off factory worker who adopts an abandoned baby and shacks up with a [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold]].
* ''She, a Chinese'' by Guo Xiaolu follows a disaffected young Chinese woman from rural Sichuan to Chongqing, and from there to London.
 
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