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Not really, but then again traditional Chinese culture isn't really that alive in China either. Communism in the Eastern bloc imported plenty of Western attitudes, including puritanism albeit under a secular/atheist branding. Also Christianity itself directly has a fairly significant history in the country. The Taiping rebellion was started by a Christian cult after all, and the Protestant House Church movement nowadays still counts tens of millions of members.


I don't see this as a China cultural thing, but as an authoritarian thing primarily.

You see the same thing in Russian society. Stalin reinstituted anti-sodomy laws. Look at how LGBT are treated under Putin. Authoritarian governments seem to like oppressing cultural misfits.




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