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* Rickshaw men.
China itself is portrayed as a mountainous region full of bamboo, a dwindling panda population, rice fields, and elaborate architecture. Being [[Hollywood History|communist]], the people are also ridiculously hard workers who move about like ants, scurrying to get projects done via a [[Hive Mind]]. The country is obsessed with New Year's and [[Dragons Up the Yin
The country is also home to rickshaws, terracotta warriors, and the Great Wall. Any urban area will look like an American "Chinatown". The only important modern people to come out of China are [[Bruce Lee]] <ref> he's actually from Hong Kong</ref> and [[Jackie Chan]]<ref> So is he</ref>. The greatest historical event in China was that thing that happened in Tiananmen Square. It's only relatively recently that western film-makers have realised that Mao's Cultural Revolution has been over for more than ''thirty years'', and you don't see millions of people all cycling to work in identical grey suits and caps any more.
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For the more modern Western depiction, see [[China Takes Over the World]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Chun-Li's stages in the various ''[[Street Fighter]]'' games are like this, with her first one featuring lots of people on bicycles and street peddlers, her ''Alpha'' stage on the Great Wall, her ''Alpha 3'' stage in a martial arts school, and her ''3rd Strike'' stage in a slum. This is also replicated with Fei-Long and the Lee brothers, despite them being from Hong Kong.
* Averted nicely in ''[[Jade Empire]],'' where the whole game takes place in a fantasy setting derived from Chinese myth and legend and is in general pretty non-stereotypical and accurate. Except for the golems.
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* Averted in ''Fearless'', which portrays China very realistically. As for the life of the main character, Hwo Yuan Jia however...
* The country of Chun-nan in ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' is the Sonic world's equivalent. Sonic runs across parts of its equivalent of the Great Wall, meets a kung fu master who's afraid of pandas, visits a restaurant with world-famous ''baozi'', scurries across bamboo forests between steep mountains by a calm lake, passes by pagodas and dragon statues dotted across the landscape, and encounters a phoenix as the area's boss.
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