u/Brave-Experience3228

I enjoy reading Chinese webnovels, they have an unique and entertaining style. Several genres like Cultivation or Doomsday are pretty much exclusively written in China. I especially like the amount of novels with female protagonists; how often they have confident and a bit selfish personalities, without any addition of romance.

That said, if novel takes place in a real-like world and has heavy action in it, nine out of ten times you'll get nationalistic fragments at some point. In Doomsday novels you're pretty much guaranteed to see 'only Chinese government can control the situation, the rest of the world is in chaos with robberies and murders on a daily basis'. That's the mildest part. From saying "when you're abroad, it'd be a shame not to steal foreign supplies", through depicting anyone outside of China to have IQ below fifty, to killing off everyone in Japan in a catastrophe, showing people all around China cheering and celebrating. And while there's always a bunch of idiots or evil-doers around main character, I've yet to read about a corrupt government official, or military making a wrong decision.

Does it represent public sentiment? Or do authors literally get officials knocking on their doors if they write anything less than a stellar description of the government?