History Main / LandOfDragons

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', a world based on ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' is literally called the Land of Dragons.

* The country of Chun-nan in ''SonicUnleashed'' 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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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** It is implied that [[AnimeChineseGirl Lie]] [[SpearCounterpart Ren]]'s homeland is like this, due to his very formal manner and distinctly Chinese style of dress.
** There's also [[CoolBigSis Yang]] [[ActionGirl Xiao]] [[TheBigGuy Long]]'s exceedingly Chinese name, although like the German-sounding Weiss Schnee, it may just be another example of in-series AwesomeMcCoolname.
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* {{Badass}} Martial Artists.

-->--''[[AmericaTheBook America: The Book]]''

* Chun-Li's stages in the various ''StreetFighter'' 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.

* Drew Carey was knocked out by Mimi and left in the Great Wall in this version of China on ''TheDrewCareyShow''... 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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* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' 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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* The ''{{Discworld}}'' has '''Agatea''', which in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' follows Pratchett's Law Of National Stereotyping by taking what everybody ''thinks'' they know about China and turning all the knobs UpToEleven. 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 callographics, 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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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', it is implied that [[AnimeChineseGirl Lie]] [[SpearCounterpart Ren]]'s homeland is like this, due to his very formal manner and distinctly Chinese style of dress.

* ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' 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.

* The ''{{Discworld}}'' has '''Agatea''', which in ''{{Discworld}}/InterestingTimes'' follows Pratchett's Law Of National Stereotyping by taking what everybody ''thinks'' they know about China and turning all the knobs UpToEleven. 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 callographics, lots of rice, revolting-sounding foodstuffs using the less desirable parts of the animal, and a Red Army, of sorts.

* In both ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviousRaccoonus'' and ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', China is a playable location.

* Averted nicely in ''JadeEmpire,'' 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.

* Somehow, despite only having a single background to do it in, ''GuiltyGear'' manages to utilize this trope with ChineseGirl Jam's stage.

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 Creator/BruceLee and Creator/JackieChan. The greatest historical event in China was that thing that happened in Tiananmen Square. It's only later 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.

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 Creator/BruceLee [[note]] he's actually from Hong Kong[[/note]] and Creator/JackieChan[[note]] So is he[[/note]]. The greatest historical event in China was that thing that happened in Tiananmen Square. It's only later 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.

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 Creator/BruceLee [[note]] he's actually from Hong Kong[[/note]] and Creator/JackieChan[[note]] So is he[[/note]]. 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.

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 Creator/BruceLee [[note]] he's actually from Hong Kong[[/note]] and JackieChan[[note]] So is he[[/note]]. 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.

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 BruceLee [[note]] he's actually from Hong Kong[[/note]] and JackieChan[[note]] So is he[[/note]]. 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.

* Bruce Lee, of course, almost singlehandedly created the "kick-ass martial artist" component of this trope for the non-Chinese-speaking world. YMMV on whether or not that was a good thing, as it displaced the prior trope that Chinese people were timid, kowtowing, culturally-stagnant menial laborers (if not opium addicts).

The more modern version of the China half of the FarEast with the [[ThirtySecondsOverTokyo Japanese]] parts sifted out. A country of overpopulated communists.

->''By the time you finish reading this sentence, three million more Chinese people will have been born.''

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* Bruce Lee, of course, almost singlehandedly created the "kick-ass martial artist" component of this trope for the non-Chinese-speaking world. YMMV on whether or not that was a good thing, as it displaced the prior trope that Chinese people were timid, kowtowing, culturally-stagnant menial laborers (if not opium addicts).


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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 BruceLee [[hottip:*: he's actually from Hong Kong]] and JackieChan[[hottip:*: So is he]]. 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.

* ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' uses this version of China, and gives the Chinese characters names like "Shampoo" and "Cologne" to boot.
** Not entirely quite so much; according to some sources, 'Shampoo' and 'Cologne' are something -though not entirely- of a Western localization. Per the entry on RumikoTakahashi, " ...character from Ranma ½ whose name, depending on whether the reading is Chinese, Japanese, or English (not to mention which kanji you're using), means "hair care product", "unpolished gem", "mountain girl", "she whose breasts are as mountains"... all of which describe the character in some way." Cologne has a similar story.
** Ranma 1/2 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.