Popular Culture
- The emperor appears as a god in the strategy game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom made by Sierra Entertainment, (owned by Vivendi until 2008). In the game he is a patron of hunting and has the skills needed for leading men into battle.
- The emperor serves as the hero in Jorge Luis Borges' story, "The Fauna of the Mirror". British fantasy writer China Miéville used this story as the basis for his novella "The Tain", which describes a post-apocalyptic London. "The Tain" was included in Miéville's short-story collection "Looking For Jake" (2005).
- The popular Chinese role-playing video game series for the PC, Xuanyuan Jian, revolves around the legendary sword used by the emperor.
- The emperor is an important NPC in the action RPG Titan Quest, whom the Player must reach in the Jade Palace and learn the truth of Typhon's imprisonment from. He also tells the player a bit of information about the war between the gods and the titans, while revealing that he has been following the Player's actions since the beginning of the Silk Road.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)