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teaches politics and IR @Durham_uni . co-editor @Geopolitics_Jl . co-host @shichapodcast . she/her. 不必等待炬火. @chenchenzh .bsky.social
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this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in
@RISjnl
, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse).
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ok turns out it's staged, but partly based on real life encounters
Ms Jiang Yuhuan who runs the hotpot restaurant was indeed harassed by two drunk men the other day but they didn't end up fighting
she's a national champion in taekwondo
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every country with pizzeria will unite with Italy one day
Gonna start my week on culinary nationalism in my Global Food History class with this tweet
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this diary entry was written by my mom, 34 years ago, on the day when she sent her 2-month-old daughter (my sister) away to my grandma's bc of one child policy.
I never fully understood the scale of heartbreak until I became a mom myself. I will never not cry reading it.
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internally screaming
please stop romanticising this
what is needed is affordable child care, not forcing people into this situation that's neither good for work nor children safety and then turning it into a heartwarming positive energy story
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love this exchange between president & state media elite from two largest capitalist economies in the world
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nearly 80% of the respondents think gender equality has "gone far enough" in their country in China, Saudi Arabia, UAE.
would be interesting to juxtapose the perception ranking with the gender gap ranking
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反对新疆集中营的中国网友们，也许我们的声音确实太小，也许我们表达得不够清楚。那就让我们说得清楚一些。
我是中国公民，汉族人，我反对中国政府目前在新疆实行的针对维吾尔人、哈萨克人和其他少数族群的大规模关押、监控、和强制文化同化的政策。
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The latest imported case in Beijing is a Chinese national who lives and works in Massachusetts. One of her coworkers was diagnosed with covid-19. She began to have symptoms 2 weeks ago. Her chest CT scan on 11/3 showed lung infections but couldn't get admitted. She requested
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Nüshu 女书 (women's script) is probably the only script in the world used exclusively among women.
It's phonetic (whereas Chinese characters are logographic) and is based on the dialect of Jiangyong, Hunan, where it originated.
There are some origin theories and the one I like
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Zhengzhou Foxconn hires around 300k workers and makes half of the world's iPhones. amidst covid lockdown chaos & food shortage, videos on douyin show many migrant workers from within Henan province are returning home on foot... as no public transport is available due to lockdown
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for a coronavirus test 3 times but was refused.
She and her husband and son flew back to China on 13/3 to get treatment.
They were transfered to a designated hospital right after landing.
She is confirmed infected and family are suspected.
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😂😂
A Chinese school's advice for parents:
"Pay attention to Children's mental health. Tips: Do show some sadness when sending kids back to school. Do NOT appear obviously joyous because you can't wait to send them back to school".
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someone mentioned "foreign hostile forces" in Liangma river
the crowd responded in fury: "the foreign force you talked about - are they Marx and Engels"?
"Was it foreign force that set fire in Xinjiang? Was it foreign force that toppled over the bus in Guizhou"?
"Are you all here
北京亮马桥
有学生指出，在我们的周围有境外反华势力，导致群众群情激愤；有学生回应称“你说的境外势力，是马克思和恩格斯吗！”
学生继续询问道：“请问新疆的火是境外势力放的吗？请问贵州的大巴是境外势力推翻的吗？”
我们连网都上不到国外的！我们哪来的境外势力！我们只有境内势力不让我们聚集！
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breaking: a transgender employee of Dangdang (e-commerce company) was fired for absenteeism when she was recovering after gender reassignment surgery. A Beijing court ruled that the employment contract has to be reinstated AND the employee has the right to use women's
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Anticipating more overseas Chinese coming back for treatment, Beijing has announced new policy about the fees. Currently treatment is free. For those returning from abroad, if they are enrolled in the national health insurance system then it's free. If not it's self paid.
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This will make you cry.
A peasant in Changde donated 15k surgical masks. He was a worker at a mask factory last year and his employer couldn't pay him. They gave him 15k masks worth 20k RMB. That's all he got for his work. He now donated all of them.
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the latest "documentary" from CGTN claims that there was large quantity of materials inciting "blood, violence & extremism" in the 2003 and 2009 versions of Xinjiang's Uyghur language textbooks. What exactly did they find? I watched the full length video
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fire has been many Chinese people's worst fear since the spring of 2020, that is, since many people's homes are forced into periodic quarantine with metal bars and barriers
from the bus in Guizhou to the fire in Urumqi
the worst thing you can imagine happened and will happen
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many of us in china twitter have been saying for years, that criticisms of the Chinese state aren't inherently sinophobia, even tho racist sinophobia is real, and conflating ethnic identity with a sovereign state is what both the Chn state & sinophobes want to see
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Wang Yi saying Sun Yat-sen would call President Tsai Ing-wen "unworthy descendant" 不肖子孙 is peak patriarchal familial nationalism that makes one cringe
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Someone left a note as a "Hubei peasant worker" to the Dongguan (Guangdong) library😭
"I've lived in Dongguan for 17 years and been visiting this library for 12 years. Books make one wise and sensible. Now the pandemic has made many businesses shut down. As a peasant worker
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Wuhan Uni hospital. A twenty-something doctor from Shanghai was taking a 87yo patient who'd been hospitalised for a month to take a CT scan.
He asked if he wanted to stop to watch the sunset.
He said yes. They enjoyed the moment together.
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on the subject of language, this is perhaps the most detailed language map of China I've come across
(I prefer to say Sinitic languages instead of fangyan though the map is called fangyan ditu here)
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the spring festival gala always gives the epitome of orientalizing, homogenizing, and feminizing representation of ethnic minorities
this year they set up a stage in Kashgar, where 90% of the local population is not han and traditionally don't observe the Chinese new year,
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Wow this is serious.
Sichuan Association of Hotpot gifted all members of the Sichuan medical team who are returning from Hubei (1000+ medics) a card that would allow them to eat in 400+ hotpot restaurants in Sichuan for free for A YEAR. 🥺🥺
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a university student sent this to me and they hoped for me to share
the university asked all students to submit their "foreign social media" accounts and threatened that if they withhold the information, they'll not get their diploma
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statement of some Chinese academics based in Nanjing, Peking, Tsinghua, Fudan & HKU condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine
archived link
(many of the WeChat comments give one brain damage tho)
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Huawei code that's trending now: 985, 996, 035, 251, 404.
Hire people from 985 universities.
Make them work 996.
Fire them at age 35.
Sue ex-employee for getting the compensation they are entitled to. Li Hongyuan was detained for 251 days.
Censor all social media discussions.
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this sculpture outside Tencent headquarters if you haven't seen it already
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ok I said we shouldn't be obsessed with 1989 comparisons and see 2022 in its own terms
but the "it's my duty" inspiration is just beautiful❤️
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the lead up to the event seems clearer in this series of photos: Hu wanted to open the folder in front of him, stopped by Li. Li took folder away from him and Xi instructed to have him escorted out.
Seems that Li was tasked with keeping an eye on Hu in the first place.
ABC西语记者在二十大闭幕会上拍的照片，时间点在法新社的视频之前。
可以看出，胡锦涛想要翻开自己的文件夹，被栗战书阻止。栗想要把文件拿走，胡不让。这一幕被习近平看见，直接叫人把胡锦涛架了出去。这也是为什么后来胡的文件在栗手上🧐
这期间李克强一动不动，宛如复制黏贴的背景板...
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children returning home for the new year surprise their parents 😭
不记得有多少年没有回家过年了，十年以上反正...
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the second page is stained with tears from 30+ yrs ago
my family's is just one among many (millions of) other, and worse, heartbreaking stories. If there will be (I hope) a museum to commemorate the traumas of OCP, that's where my mom's diary could be kept
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Douban-er: "I saw on reddit that the whole world is now praying for Lebanon. Makes me think that when such huge disasters happen in China (e.g. Tianjin explosion, killed 173) few people discuss it on the "international" internet. The "wall" is two way. It makes the inside unable
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much inspired by this "encampment journal" from a Chinese student in Middle Eastern studies in NY. she used to keep questioning her positionality & qualifications: what do I know? How can I write about Palestine?
but encampment changed this... "I act. I think. I write. these are
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the lesser known gender dimension of the (colonial) migration to Xinjiang in the early years of the PRC. a thread.
After the republic was founded, thousands of soldiers were placed in the region for defense & economic production purposes. There was a "problem". There were not
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friend's reflection on the Dam Square vigil in Amsterdam where there was clash b/w Han and Uyghur attendees. sharing with permission.
"China is a Han supremacist state. Han people's solidarity with Xinjiang has to be built based on this realization"
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very happy to share this short reflection piece on postcolonial nationalism and the global right. it builds on and synergizes previous work and hopefully offers some pointers for thinking about the use & abuse of the anti-colonial in reactionary politics,
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8 Chinese people died off the Mexican shore trying to reach the US just 2 weeks ago. thousands risk their lives doing this.
yes Chongqing is great and many have a great life. some don't. I increasingly think saying "China is like this or like that" in one tweet, or one thread, is
the main honest insight from my travels in China is that the quality of life is much better than the US on a pure wellbeing, safety, physical and social infra level
Chongqing, a tier 2 city, is much more developed than all tier 1 US cities combined
as a woman I can walk
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Thinking of women workers of PPE factories.
They haven't got a lot of spotlight.
They are mostly women.
In China many of them were called to work in the Spring Festival.
When you stay at home they're doing repetitive work for long hours day in day out.
To save lives.
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on my timeline, the US eileen gu discourse is about race. the Chinese eileen gu discourse is about class.
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she wrote she breastfed her "one more time - the last time in her life" before they departed. I (then one year and a half) sensed the atmosphere and cried together with her.
my sister did come back to us when she was around 5 or 6 yo. But I know this hurts forever.
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Hello, I made a timeline of the development of the covid-19 outbreak in December and January, so that I don't have to explain to people how it started.
Remember to zoom in to make it more readable.
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What a speech. Especially when compared to her counterparts.
"These patients are not just abstract statistics. They're fathers and grandfathers, mothers & grandmothers, partners, people. And we're a community in which every life and every person counts".
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HSK Japan office's donation to Hubei universities. On the label it's written "山川異域 風月同天”
Hard to translate but roughly
"Mountain and river in different lands
Wind and moon under the same sky".
It's a story from the Tang Dynasty.
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AI colourized Hedda Morrison's China photos (1933-1946)
the creator says 可随意转发 so I can't help sharing this amazing colourization project
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not competent enough to deliver daily groceries to every household but competent enough to produce, transport, and install barriers in such huge quantities within short notice
Meanwhile pictures of more barriers arriving are passed around on Chinese Social Media. Phrases like "Hard Lockdown" are being used.
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a Chinese student led the chant "stop concentration camps" "free Uyghurs" on UCLA campus
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this is possibly the best book dealing with CR mass killing in rural China (Su made a careful distinction between genocide, mass killing & collective killing, but it's on that level), which received less attention than red guard violence in cities. It also takes so much courage
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as Chinese officials at the UN recently brushed aside concerns about discrimination against LGBTQ communities, people's daily isn't feeling comfortable with even mentioning the word gay/homosexual - describing Joy as Evelyn's "westernised daughter"
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books on gender and feminism curated by the one way street bookstore in Hangzhou
"books you should read about Fengxian"
including Ueno's patriarchy & capitalism; men explain things to me; Le Malheur du bas; La domination masculine
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the gazan girl who was on BBC radio (she's in the US now) said on tiktok: "all I know is in 100 years, we're going to be studied like native Americans were. in those big universites, like harvard, you'll be studying us, and doing research papers on our stories and that's it."
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I'm over the moon today.
my 2.5yo son is non-verbal and suspected for ASD (due to the current state of NHS, he's got an assessment scheduled for... 2027). this morning I was wearing a blanket, pretending to be flying & wrapped him around. he smiled at me and said: "butterfly".
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what an uncalled for act of erasure - Qiu Jin is now featured in the exhibition but without showing any of her words, silent, without a voice of own just like other representations of "the orient" in British museums
why? just bc a translator demanded to be credited & paid
So they TOOK OUT the CHINESE and the ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS of Qiu Jin's poetry... almost as, if you know, they want to make sure there are NO words of hers in the exhibit at all
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"CCP, step down"!
incredible scene from Urumqi Road, Shanghai
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I'm so moved by these photos of female barge haulers posted by "women's history bot" on weibo.
The word 纤夫 means hauling men. Women haulers are erased from our language. I did not know their existence.
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she lived in a telephone box for a month, taking good care of herself & her dog. airing the duvet in the sun & walking the dog on good days. all the residents living in nearby compound were curious but they couldn't go out. one resident flew a drone to say hi to her.
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name one PRC diplomat account whose twitter feed doesn't include at least one video clip of Uyghur woman dancing
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“you're unlocked. How about the Uyghurs and Kazakhs"?
"close concentration camps"
from Chinese feminists
More intersectional platforms emerging on protests and resistance to patriarchal authoritarianism at large by feminist & queer activists:
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"你们现在相信了吗"？
"相信"！
"你们现在看到了吗"？
"看到了"！
"你们愿意为我们发声吗"？
"愿意"！
"Do you believe it [concentration camps] now"?
"We do"!
"Do you see it now"?
"We do"!
"Are you willing to stand with us"?
"We are"！
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"We want no dictatorship. We want democracy"
"We stand with the people of Xinjiang. We stand with the women of Iran".
#Shanghai
#Urumqiroad
At this movement in the chilly winter night, Shanghai people are chanting on the downtown street “ we don’t want dictatorship, we want democracy”.Extraordinary courage and solidarity showed. After 3 years of suffering from lockdown & control of society, people are raged.
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did not want to reply but you are making a fool of yourself
@chenchenzh
They are all sooo predictable.
Vietnam, Palestine, just DO NOT MENTION Uyghurs or Kazakhs or others oppressed by China:
"都与我无关" is the message
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one thing one can certainly tell from the G20 videos is Xi is not afraid of covid anymore
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omfg. CCTV made a covid-19 TV series.
In the show a male cadre goes "why is only men who are volunteering (to go to Wuhan)"? Then all female characters say "I need to take care of family etc". Then finally a divorce woman volunteered 😫
In reality, women HCW accounted for 2/3
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Displaying & fetishizing women medical workers' head shaving as a symbol of (womanly) sacrifice is one of the most disgusting aspects of the propaganda.
Many male doctors volunteered to shave their head too but they haven't received this voyeuristic gaze.
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epic photos of post-gaokao ecstasy
Changsha, Hunan
by 三湘都市报
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that's someone who survived the Japanese invasion, the civil war, the great leap forward, cultural revolution, and other numerous political movements in her lifetime
I’ve never witnessed this level of badassery: 95-year old grandma in Shanghai tests positive for Covid. About to get sent away but fends off SIX workers in haz-mats with her cane until they give up.
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who'd have thought world leaders wearing "non-Western" clothes could elicit such insecurity among a certain group of people.
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Link for Beijing's new policy
Meanwhile in Tangshan (Hebei), even tho there haven't been any imported cases, they preemptively said for those returning from abroad who hide their travel history, if infected treatment is self paid.
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I only posted one sentence "do you support cotton or people?"
and my douban account is banned for 7 days 😪
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German Embassy in China testing the waters on weibo and the post was soon deleted...
"In German people often say the future is like an unwritten blank sheet of paper. This blank paper is now held in the hands of yours and mine"
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“Han protesters use phrases like 'compatriots', 'we are all Xinjiangers', 'I'm also trapped by the fire' to express support. But these well-meaning words in fact conceal and deny the specificities of the oppression Uyghur people suffer in China,
我们呼吁在抗议中加入第五项诉求，即关闭新疆集中营。缺少这一条诉求，我们对于解封、平等、自由、人权、民主、有尊严生活的诉求是汉族中心主义的，更是建立在对维吾尔人所受迫害的无视和麻木不仁之上。
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Tianjin deserves having a name
A major Chinese city near Beijing has begun mass testing of its 14 million residents after a cluster of 20 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, including at least two with the omicron variant. The testing is to be completed over two days.
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decolonisation means emancipation, not "return" to a regime they were never subject to its rule
Taiwan was a Dutch colony, a Ming & Qing colony, a Japanese colony, a RoC colony, achieved autonomy thru democratization but facing constant threat of military conquest from the PRC
Hong Kong was a British colony. Taiwan was a Japanese colony and is now a US neo-colony. Decolonisation of those places means their return to China.
Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, Diego Garcia and Malvinas, on the other hand, are existing colonies. Decolonisation means independence.
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fixed it for ya
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be murderous, inexcusable and very stupid. But, Taiwan to China bears no relationship to, say, what Iraq was to the ... US. Taiwan IS predominantly Chinese and it should be a matter of its predominantly Chinese people to decide their future.
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how about we forget 1989 & see 2022 as something completely new
there may not be overarching demand for political reform beyond ending zero covid
the urban youth today grew up with economic growth, social media, globalized popular culture
the past should not limit our imagination
Premature to say that this is a 1989 minute. In 1989 top leadership was divided about student demonstrations and that split was a preexisting condition. The thing to watch out for is whether a split may emerge. But that is a black box and we don’t have a clue.
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Managed to get this surreal shot on the highway to Hongqiao station yesterday.
Amid the apocalyptic weather caused by the typhoon nothing is visible but the face of the president.
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Jifeng Bookstore used to be a cultural landmark in Shanghai and was closed in 2018.
Its WeChat account returned after a few years of silence with the message: "no one is going to be our saviour. we have to save ourselves. Type "disobedience" to get reading list"
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this is the most friggin wolf warrior thing I've seen yet
a bunch of students from Sichuan Fine Arts Insitute made this series of photos simulating PLA invasion of Taiwan (武统)
the amount of efforts and enthusiasm is beyond me
(they waived copyright ownership
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pictures also show local residents near the highway set up free supply stations to help Foxconn workers. without help from the govt or Foxconn, all they can rely on is the kindness of strangers.
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wow. what fresh colonial apologism is this.
"raise a glass to colonialism & imperialism because they built roads & brought western ideas"
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💔social media posts show that a janitor working on Shenzhen university campus committed suicide after a month of lockdown. she couldn't go home, had no accommodation & had to sleep on classroom floor.
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国内的朋友如果要备非处方药：
扑热息痛
布洛芬
一般的感冒、流感、新冠，用来缓解症状主要就这两种，只要不过量非常安全
这些都是病毒感染，靠自愈，吃药只是为了缓解症状（退烧止痛）
很多复方的感冒药都会有这些成分，吃复方药要看清楚成分以免使用过量
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toilets at work, and that "colleagues should accept Gao's new gender and work with her with an open mind".
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Putin's speech tops weibo trends today. Guancha & Huanqiu's posts got millions of likes. Commenters say they're "moved to tears" 🥲
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can't have just one day without this great power competition shit
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my latest with
@RISjnl
. one that is close to the heart. on the emotion worlds of a pandemic. of grief, anger, gratitude, gandong, enmity, resentment, contempt. to our correct and incorrect, private & collective memory.
@HAPPatQUB
@CUP_PoliSci
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