History Main / RedChina

* The Literature/JamesBond novel ''Colonel Sun''

* ''Last Train Home'' is a documentary about a family of migrant workers.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

* ''TheDarkKnight''

* ''{{Fallout}}''. Just ''{{Fallout}}''. The Red Chinese are THE DirtyCommies in Falloutverse.

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Sometimes, Red {{China takes over the world}}.

* ''[[TwentyFour 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 [[IncrediblyLamePun slow boat to China]]. He is returned at the beginning of Season Six.

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* ''{{Goldfinger}}'' is of the first type.
** In ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Blofeld is implied to be working for Red China.
** Notably averted in ''TomorrowNeverDies.'' 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.
* In ''YouOnlyLiveTwice''.

Why 1979, you may ask? Though China did start to open to the world in 1972 after RichardNixon visited China, Mao had a stranglehold on power until his death in 1976, and supported the most radical politics in China. Immediately after he died, those radical elements were arrested, and Deng Xiaoping made a grab for control of the Party. The economic reforms he implemented starting in 1978 turned China from a sclerotic command economy into a supercharged powerhouse.

Following the Communist Revolution of 1949, the Kuomintang gang went to Taiwan and set up a government, meaning mainland China became Communist. The prior regime were no saints themselves--Chiang Kai Shek marked his rise to power in China with a massacre of his opponents, and courted fascism; China was recieving Nazi advisors up until ''WorldWarII'', when Germany withdrew them so as not to work against its Japanese allies--and were not exactly seen as such by the Western media--China and Asia in general had long been [[YellowPeril villified]] in popular culture--but they were seen as a lesser evil, partially due to alliance in ''WorldWarII'', and partially due to the fact that they were unlikely to aid the Soviet Union in international disputes.

Therefore, Red China became a recurrant villain in ColdWar literature; not as common as [[RedScare The Soviet Union]], but definitely there, with the addition of the traditional mystique that Asian cultures have always been steeped in. It probably is no exageration to say that Red China was the Cold War-era successor to WWII's ImperialJapan in villain roles, in the same way that [[RedScare The Soviet Union]] was the successor to ThoseWackyNazis.

The main cause of this was TheKoreanWar- while the Soviets were not (obviously) attacking UN forces, which included the US and the UK, the Chinese most certainly were.

Why 1979, you may ask? Though China did start to open to the world in 1972 after RichardNixon visited China, Mao had a stranglehold on power until his death in 1976, and supported the most radical politics in China. Immediately after he died, those radical elements were arrested, and Deng Xiaoping made a grab for control of the Party. The economic reforms he implemented starting in 1978 turned China from a sclerotic command economy into a supercharged powerhouse.

* The original founding story of ''IronMan''

* The film ''Red Corner'' with Richard Gere was all over this trope. (Hence the film name).

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* ''{{Fallout}}. Just ''{{Fallout}}''. The Red Chinese are THE DirtyCommies in Falloutverse.

* Receive a cursory mention in WorldinConflict 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. [[MST3KMantra Best not to think too hard about how the late 1980s Chinese army intended to accomplish that.]]
* CommandAndConquerGenerals 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 ([[{{CanonDiscontinuity}} unlike all the other Command & Conquer games]]) in our timeline during the 2020s, but their military, with its [[ZergRush tactics]] and units, is based inaccurately on that of the first type, and is considered so hyperbolic that the game was actually BannedInChina.

** ''Platform'' ( 站台) is about a small band of perfomers trying to adjust to the economic and societal changes,

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Not so much DirtyCommunists here, although you will get RenegadeChinese. China becomes a rich, well-developed country, but still prone to torture and general international shadiness, although not on pre-79 levels. Many things are still BannedInChina, though usually available through bootlegged media. Also notice that since China nowadays has gigantic potential as a consumer market for Western media, it makes almost no business sense to offend their still powerful censorship by casting China as the villain.

Not so much DirtyCommunists here, although you will get RenegadeChinese. China becomes a rich, well-developed country, but still prone to torture and general international shadiness, although not on pre-79 levels. Many things are still BannedInChina, though usually available through bootlegged media.

Why 1979, you may ask? Though China did start to open to the world in 1972 after RichardNixon visited China, Mao had a stranglehold on power until his death in 1976, and supported the most radical politics in China. Immediately after he died, those radical elements were arrested, and Deng Xiaoping made a grab for control of the Party. The economic reforms he implemented starting in 1978 turned China from a sclerotic command economy into a supercharged powerhouse.

* Briefly implied to have been TheManBehindTheMan (or at least one of) in regards to [[AlexRider Herod Sayle]], [[spoiler:though it turned out it was [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Scorpia]].]]

* CommandAndConquerGenerals 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 ([[{{Discontinuity}} unlike all the other Command & Conquer games]]) in our timeline during the 2020s, but their military, with its [[ZergRush tactics]] and units, is based inaccurately on that of the first type, and is considered so hyperbolic that the game was actually BannedInChina.

* CommandAndConquerGenerals 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 ([[{{Discontinuity}} unlike all the other Command & Conquer games]]) in our timeline during the 2020s, but their military, with its [[ZergRush tactics]] and units, is based inaccurately based on that of the first type, and is considered so hyperbolic that the game was actually BannedInChina.

* CommandAndConquerGenerals 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 ([[Discontinuity unlike all the other Command & Conquer games]]) in our timeline during the 2020s, but their military, with its [[ZergRush tactics]] and units, is based inaccurately based on that of the first type, and is considered so hyperbolic that the game was actually BannedInChina.

** Or why they would ally with the Soviets at the height of the [[EnemyCivilWar Sino-Soviet Split]].

** In Fallout 3 maybe. In Fallout and Fallout 2 they are described as participating in WWIII, no more, no less.
*** Note that in the Falloutverse, the USSR still exists before the nuclear apocalypse, and apparently had long made its peace with the USA.
*** The second game established that China was the main party against the USA in both San Fran and Sierra army Depot recordings.
*** It is unspecified whether China underwent its late-20th and early-21st Century reforms in the ''Fallout'' Universe, but the US propaganda still basically treats them as DirtyCommunists.

Therefore, Red China became a recurrant villain in ColdWar literature; not as common as [[RedScare The Soviet Union]], but definitely there, with the addition of the traditional mystique that Asian cultures have always been steeped in. It probably is no exageration to say that Red China was the Cold War-era successor to WWII's Imperial Japan in villain roles, in the same way that [[RedScare The Soviet Union]] was the successor to ThoseWackyNazis.

* Command&ConquerGenerals 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 ([[Discontinuity unlike all the other Command & Conquer games]]) in our timeline during the 2020s, but their military, with its [[ZergRush tactics]] and units, is based inaccurately based on that of the first type, and is considered so hyperbolic that the game was actually BannedInChina.

The original PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny, China played a fair amount of roles as the BigBad during part of TheColdWar--afterward, portrayal has tended to move towards that of an international AntiHero, of the LawfulNeutral sort--although given ValuesDissonance, it sometimes could qualify as ChaoticNeutral instead.

Therefore, Red China became a recurrant villain in ColdWar literature; not as common as [[RedMenace The Soviet Union]], but definitely there, with the addition of the traditional mystique that Asian cultures have always been steeped in. It probably is no exageration to say that Red China was the Cold War-era successor to WWII's Imperial Japan in villain roles, in the same way that [[RedMenace The Soviet Union]] was the successor to ThoseWackyNazis.

Following the Communist Revolution of 1949, the Kuomintang gang went to Taiwan and set up a government, meaning mainland China became Communist.

Not so much DirtyCommunists here, although you will get RenegadeChinese. China becomes a rich, well-developed country, but still prone to torture and general international shadiness, although not on pre-79 levels.

*** Note that in the Falloutverse, the USSR still exists before the nuclear apocalypse.

* Most of the films by independent director Jia Zhangke deal with life in China since the beginning of the Red and Rich period, especially ''Xiao Wu'' (小武), ''Platform'' ( 站台), ''The World'' ( 世界) and ''Still Life'' (三峡好人).