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24 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This dog training class sold on Taobao is way more advanced than I expected: Image
This ad gives me hope for The Planet of Labrador
Already picturing how I’d sell humanity to Labrador empire in a heartbeat
First h/t Weibo @麻鸡拿指 the Taobao link is here: m.tb.cn/h.4YCkIPv?sm=9…

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26 Oct
This month I wrote about Chinese new immigrants and their vibrant food communities on WeChat, the msg app that’s soon to be banned by Trump administration. It’s largely unbeknown to non-Chinese eaters, but the app has brought a lifeline to struggling Chinese restaurants NYC 1/
It all started when @diaodiao_yang added me to a WeChat group of August Gatherings. The fusion Cantonese restaurant was reopened in August and struggling with all the NYC reopening problems. And they launched their very first WeChat group to connect with loyal customers /2
In fact, as soon as August Gatherings launched the group, ppl flocked to it. It took less than 24 hrs to hit the 500-member cap, and a month later the restaurant is running 15+ groups w/ 7000+ members across NYC, Upstate & NJ. Ppl can order food from WeChat w/o leaving WeChat /3
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6 Sep
Placing “孝”(filial piety, or, a (twisted) devotion to family) as the central theme is really problematic with this version of Mulan. The screenplay is written by western people who take 孝 at face value 1/
Simply put, filial piety—even in today's context and in China—does not translate as "a devotion to family". It has a strong sentiment of blind obedience to family elders. Reforming and abolishing the archiac concept of "孝" have been a key theme in China's modernization 2/
What's 孝? The most typical example is "the 24 role models of filial piety". One of them is Guo Ju, who literally buried his son so there will be more food for his mother. That's not really "devotion to family", but that's a part of 孝 3/
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1 Jul
This tech story is surreal even by 2020 standard:
- Tencent sues spicy sauce maker Laoganma for 1m+ USD default marketing payment
- The court froze L’s 2m USD asset based on T’s story
- L said they never worked with T. Turns out 3 hustlers forged L’s chop and cut the deal...
- 3 conmen used fake chop to get T to promote hot sauce in online game. They sold the game coupon came w/ fake laoganma campaign for profit
- Rumor: Tencent employee fell for the the phishing site thru Baidu search engine
- Baidu: we have nothing to do w/ it...
So Laoganma woke up one day realizing its bank account has been frozen & it’s selling hot sauce in Tencent video game for a year with no apparent reason cuz Ocean’s 3 pulled the weirdest con for online game coupons
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29 Jun
China suspended a local cartoon after someone wrote the gov a letter reporting the characters have "inappropriate hair colors" and "misleading values". Prior to this, bright hair colors have been largely banned on Chinese TV, but it's pretty much a first for cartoons. 1/
Response from Hunan Radio & TV Bureau: the hair colors are designed to differentiate characters, & the program aims to promote "positive energy". "It's not intended to promote hair dying, but we didn't take the subtle impacts on kids into account." 2/ gbdsj.hunan.gov.cn/gbdsj/gsdat/if…
Most netizens find it ridiculous, much like other bans on real ppl's hair colors & tattoos. But similar practices have been normalized over the past few yrs. What's more concerning is the reporting mechanism that bans the show cuz one letter in the name of "positive energy" 3/
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23 Jun
Li Zhensheng, the Lucie-Award winning photojournalist who took over 100,000 photos during cultural revolution, reportedly passed away in New York. It’s impossible to revisit CR history without the massive archive he left behind while working as a reporter at Heilongjiang Daily
Years ago I shadowed him around Queens for a feature profile—a lovely guy with a charming (and well-deserved) ego. He gave me a tour of his community and his traditional opera group. We messaged thsis January. He has SO MANY stories.
He got to take many assignments cuz the seniors dumped work on him, the youngest in the team. Once an active “red guard”, he hid about 20,000 negatives under his house floor, including many that were considered “smearing” the cultural revolution. This is him working on set.
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21 Mar
A huge misunderstanding about China’s zero growth of domestic COVID-19 case:

That does NOT mean China’s elimination of domestic coronavirus infections.

Based on Chinese criteria, asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers are NOT counted as confirmed cases. Here’re the details:
1. If u look into the “COVID-19 prevention and containment plan” published by National Health Commission, you’ll find there are two separated categories: confirmed cases & asymptomatic carriers.
2. The local authorities must report both asymptomatic carriers who test positive, and the confirmed cases who show clinical symptoms like fever or lung abnormality from CT scan.
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