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@manyapan
Jun 12, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
George Orwell's #1984 turned 70 this week. I'll admit, I thought I would be writing an article about how "Western media" labels China as "Orwellian" while most Chinese readers don't connect the classic work to present-day PRC at all. I was wrong. (short thread 👇) Image
Not only is #1984 quite popular within China, I found that many readers on Douban, Weibo, etc. do link the book to the modern-day society they are living in. A big difference with portrayals in 'western media' is that this is not about #socialcredit at all, but about censorship.
One striking comment: "What scares me is that sometimes people will ridicule North Korea for being so shut off from the world, but what about us? We're like frogs at the bottom of a well, but the scary thing is, we don't even know we're in the well."
In the end, 70 years after its publication (and 40 yrs after the first Chinese translation), Orwell's 1984 really has turned out to be a canonic work that holds up a mirror not just to China, but to US, EU, and the world. Read more: whatsonweibo.com/nineteen-eight…

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How it started vs. how it's going: the rise (and fall?) of Zhengzhou’s viral yè qí (夜骑) trend: thousands of students cycling 40+ miles to Kaifeng overnight, capturing the spirit of China's youth and sparking national conversations about the impact of these kind of movements.
While media reports suggest this trend's been simmering since summer, there’s little digital evidence to support that. The movement seemed to erupt suddenly in early November (more on this in my article). By Nov 2-3, group rides were everywhere, fueling a social media frenzy.
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Guess I didn't realize just how many juicy stories there are about 86-yr-old Fan Zeng (范曾, 1938), master of traditional Chinese calligraphy & painting. Recent news that he married a 36-yr-old woman - 50 years his junior - unleashed a flood of stories about him on social media. Image
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Panda propaganda is the best kind of propaganda 😅 Chinese state media are turning panda YY's return to China from Memphis Zoo into a big media show. Many fans have been anticipating her return for months already. ImageImage
YY is was closely followed and monitored during her US-China trip.

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Apr 16, 2023
Been watching way too many weibo videos today so I'm just gonna put a few random ones here that have no news value at all and are completely unrelated to each other.

Starting with this guy who shows that you don't need to be able to sing in order to deliver a 👍 performance
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Hello, the pandemic is over. One of the cities in China that is going absolutely viral for its local party and bbq culture right now is Zibo, a former industrial town that just saw a 800% increase in bookings. whatsonweibo.com/the-hottest-pl…
How did this relatively non-famous town suddenly become an online hit?! Different reasons, but one is that it quarantined students from Shandong during zero Covid, treated them well, and they came back to celebrate Zibo and a new spring. It snowballed from there.
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Like the party where nobody told you the dress code. Wearing blue while everyone showed up in red.
Noteworthy enough, the audience at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is no longer wearing masks this year, for the first time in two years (they did not yet wear masks during the 2020 show).
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