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voices from coronavirus@sz

A poem from a friend:   And two other posts: 一切都是天意 不让700万香港人戴口罩;结果14亿人戴上了口罩 不让14亿人过圣诞节;结果14亿人过不了春节 你把武汉封了;结果世界把中国封了 不让那8个人说话;结果全国人都在为那8个人说话 Everything is the will of Heaven 7 million Hong Kongers...

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are you involuted?

The caption to the comic reads, “Comrade, wake up, you still have overtime to work.” There is much talk of neijuan (内卷) or involution in Shenzhen and indeed throughout China. The conversation is so...

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We Were Smart

So, in 2020, Chen Wenhui and I translated Li Yifan’s documentary, We Were SMART (杀马特我爱你). If you get a chance to watch the film, it provides insight into the 2000s, when a second generation of migrant...

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how do shenzheners map covid elsewhere?

A friend from northern China once said (and I’m paraphrasing a long ago memory of Shenzhen, circa 1995), “If you want to see Chinese culture, go to Beijing, Xi’an or Shanghai. Even Tibet has more...

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yang qian early plays

By now you’ve figured out that this week, I’m organizing the blog. Kind of. Anyway, today’s post is a treat from years past, when Shenzhen was and was transitioning from being the world’s factory....

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shenzhen covid update for inquiring minds

“What’s up in Shenzhen?” You and other inquiring minds want to know. Well, for starters, we have a new conspiracy theory about how Shenzhen’s successfully prevented a massive omicron outbreak on the...

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a poetic primer for understanding these times

All that we do not know haunts us. In some sense, social media has only made us more aware that our knowledge about what is happening next door or in the next city is limited. Nevertheless, we still...

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rumor has it… the government had a hell of a night on the town

It’s true, unlike the 2020 lockdown when the government subsidized the lockdown, during the 2022 lockdowns in Shanghai and elsewhere (Shenzhen, for example) the actual costs of game of germs are being...

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gaslighting 101: shanghai hasn’t reopened because it was never locked down…

That’s what they’re going with? This is a popular gloss on the press conference that didn’t announce that the city had reopened. Instead, government spokespeople performed a master class in gas...

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are you part of the “herd” or are you a party cadre of exemplary character?

Many of the people around me have tested positive for omicron. In Chinese, the word for positive is 阳性 (yáng xìng), and the pun is with 羊 (yáng) or “lamb.” In keeping with the animated pandemic, this...

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