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Apr 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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.
Later in the day they seal her apartment with steel plates, she RIPS them off, and takes a stroll around the neighborhood…
The next day, after THREE more attempts, they finally get her to the quarantine camps…oh nvm…she jumped the wall…
Still fighting
"Even I can't jump that wall" wrote one netizen.

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Nov 30, 2022
Among the many revelations of China's weekend protests are that young Chinese—GenZs and Millennials—aren't what people in the West (and even Chinese themselves!) thought they were.

I think we're witnessing the emergence of a new political consciousness or nationalism. 🧵0/11
In the past few days, protesters, many young students and professionals in their 20s and 30s, attended their first protest in one of the most dangerous places to do so in the world.

Many described an overwhelming mix of emotion: terror, empowerment, catharsis, and patriotism. 1/
Protesters described to me a revelation:

For years, the running theory about young China was they were predominantly a generation of "little pinks": nationalists who did whatever the Communist Party said and challenged Western slights with online vitriol and brand boycotts. 2/
Read 12 tweets
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Nov 28, 2022
How to protests under 21st century authoritarianism. A thread 🧵
China's has such strict censorships rules that many in recent days have used creative methods to showcase their anger at zero-Covid policies.

The most popular being to hold up blank sheets of white paper. 1/
The blank paper seems to have had different origins. (Earlier, they've been used in Hong Kong and in Russia to protest the Ukraine war)

In Beijing, a lone female student held the blank sheet up for hours, inspiring student protestors in the evening to do the same. 2/
Read 15 tweets
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Jun 10, 2022
Panicking buying resumes in Shanghai as half of the city goes back into lockdowns 1/
A supermarket in Pudong /2
3/
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Jun 3, 2022
Shanghai is cosmetically back to normal, but I've found the psychic state of a post-lockdown city to be something like resigned perseverance.

It's a mix of fatalism and survivalist pragmatism, a forced apathy drawn from experience.

"No choice but to carry on," many said. 1/
Why was no one angry? I wondered.

For most of my life, I lived in societies with a protest culture. My immediate response to injustice is anger

But I've realized this to be a kind of privilege.

Anger is like a fire: it's natural, but it needs certain conditions to grow.

2/
For one, it needs a spark—the infraction.

But it also needs the fuel—the socio-political framework to put that anger to work.

It needs the unions, the parents' associations, the facebook groups, and—yes—the twitter mobs.

Anger cannot blaze without organizational oxygen.
Read 4 tweets
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Jun 2, 2022
I recently wrote for @JoinPersuasion about the resonances between Shanghai, April 2022 & Beijing, June 1989 (Tiananmen). A thread.

persuasion.community/p/shanghais-la…
The piece^ covers other topics including China's political v. technocratic failure, covid-zero policy, etc. so I wanted to extend the comparison in this thread. 1/
Both Tiananmen and Shanghai involved

1) deaths by deliberate state action
2) a complete disaffection of youths
3) a flagrant breach of the social contract
4) an irrevocable, world-isolating choice

2/
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May 12, 2022
A new buzzword has entered the Chinese lexicon.

bailan 摆烂 “to let things rot.” 

What does it mean? 1/7
2021 was the year of tangping 躺平.

One by one, Chinese youths began to opt out of a system where additional effort no longer tracked additional rewards. In fact, the system was so overheated, rewards often decreased with added effort.

They called it "involution" 内卷. 2/7
2022 is the year when Chinese chose to bailan.

Bailan means to actively embrace a bad situation (i.e. let it deteriorate further) rather than to try and flip it into a good one.

A similar Chinese idiom is 破罐破摔 referring to dropping a pot that's already cracked. 3/7
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