It's odd to use Miao people as a inspiration for a village exclusively inhabited by Han Chinese. I guess the problem is Guangxi, the region Guilin located in, is not stereotypically Chinese, about 40% of its population are minorities. The developers are only interested in exploring Han Chinese cultu...

I was just thinking, she could indeed be Japanese. Not only that, but what if that's actually a Shinto shrine? It doesn't look like one, but many mosques in China, for instance, have Chinese traditional architecture and don't really stand out from any other traditional-style constructions, until yo...

It's this question that perplexes me most. Like you, I personally don't think Suzuki will seriously go into that. However, I think some acknowledgment is necessary. China in the 1980's, while not what it is today, wasn't also a country that exposed to the world economy yet. That came the decade aft...