Where is Chinese Cyberpunk?
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China, the diaspora, and the future Hollywood won’t show
Blade Runner’s New Jews China, the diaspora, and the future Hollywood won’t show Terminally_Drifting Sep 19, 2025 136 26 28 Share The Neon That Never Was In 1982, Ridley Scott gave us the future: Los Angeles 2019, a rain-soaked hellscape where Harrison Ford ate noodles under blazing kanji while a 50-foot geisha sold something unknowable from a billboard that blocked out God. The future was Japanese, and we knew it with the certainty of a culture that had just watched Detroit get its lunch money stolen by Toyota. This wasn't just set design. This was America working through its terror in real-t
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