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Land of Dragons
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Not a literal Land of Dragons, mind you. The more modern version of the China half of the Far East with the Japanese parts sifted out. A country of overpopulated communists. | |
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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 EX stage in the Tiananmen Square, 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. | |
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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. Gigan Rocks and Gigan Device in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity has similarly steep mountains and bamboo nearby with shaolin temples in the background (and as part of the finish line). The backdrop is merely cosmetic though—it's actually where a gravity-manipulation device was placed that Jet wants to find. |
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Ranma ½ uses this version of China, and uses Chinese people a lot; in fact, China is basically the origin of all curses or anything mystical or magical. If there's any kind of cursed artifact, magic potion, or anything of that nature, it will usually always involve a Chinese person. Most the martial arts in the series is also from China. Ranma himself seems to be quite Chinese-influenced. Not only does he use Kenpo, the Japanese adaption of general Chinese martial arts, but he also dresses more like a Chinese. While Akane wears a Karate gi while fighting, Ranma usually wears a Chinese-style outfit. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, the world based on Mulan is literally called the Land of Dragons. | |
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Somehow, despite only having a single background to do it in, Guilty Gear manages to utilize this trope with Chinese Girl Jam's stage. | |
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The Discworld has Agatea, which in Interesting Times follows Pratchett's Law of National Stereotyping by taking what everybody thinks they know about China and turning all the knobs Up to Eleven. While Agatea in its widest concept is also used for Discworld references to Japan, Thailand and latterly Korea, the Chinese stereotype dominates and involves a national fetish for building walls, senile emperors manipulated by Grand Viziers, scheming mandarins, flowing and very expressive calligraphics, Misfortune Cookies, inscrutable philosophies, lots of rice, revolting-sounding foodstuffs using the less desirable parts of the animal, and a Red Army, of sorts. | |
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The World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria is this to a tee. With panda people to boot. | |
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Downplayed in Avatar: The Last Airbender, where the Earth Kingdom is mostly Chinese, the Fire Nation slightly Japanese, the Water Tribes are somewhat Inuit (and the extinct Air Nomads were vaguely Shaolin-like monks). They have huge walls, but being earthbenders it's justified. | |
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Averted somewhat in Kung Fu Panda, which seems to be less a walking stereotype and more a distillation of ancient China and its legends and myths. While it does focus on kung fu (obviously) and cooking/food, the depiction of the Valley of Peace is an encapsulation of the best of China's long history, art, culture, and beauty (particularly the natural sort). Jackie Chan's presence as a voice is simply due to his humor and martial arts skills, not because he's seen as representative of China. And as for all the dragon motifs...that's not only Truth in Television, it's justified by the fact dragons are seen as powerful protectors in Chinese culture, so would naturally be used to adorn the architecture and be embodied as a warrior who would defend the valley. | |
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Drew Carey was knocked out by Mimi and left in the Great Wall in this version of China on The Drew Carey Show... even though said episode actually was filmed in China. To be fair, the show did manage to take in a trip to a Chinese McDonald's though. | |
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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. And they're just giant, mobile versions of the Terracotta Army from the tomb of Qin Shi Huang. |
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In both Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, China is a playable location. | |
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Bridge of Birds is "a novel of an ancient China that never was," to which the book blurb adds, "But oh, it should have been!" Gets credit for having a more developed world that the description would imply. And only one dragon, on a little necklace. | |
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