As an addendum to this, (please forgive me for what I’m about to post) in the Netflix series “Bling Empire,” which is a reality housewives-esque show that traces the lives of very rich Asian-Americans living in Los Angeles, one of the characters on this show claims he can trace his ancestry back to one of the Song dynasty emperors. Nobody gives a shit about this except for Westerners, and he’s just a doctor now. His ties to “nobility” aren’t meaningful because In China there isn’t a feudal noble class to speak of, and there’s no like ancestral wealth he can tap into.
As an addendum to this, (please forgive me for what I’m about to post) in the Netflix series “Bling Empire,” which is a reality housewives-esque show that traces the lives of very rich Asian-Americans living in Los Angeles, one of the characters on this show claims he can trace his ancestry back to one of the Song dynasty emperors. Nobody gives a shit about this except for Westerners, and he’s just a doctor now. His ties to “nobility” aren’t meaningful because In China there isn’t a feudal noble class to speak of, and there’s no like ancestral wealth he can tap into.