When I began to listen carefully to my mother’s ghost stories, I found out that they were all about girls who died wronged, killed by poverty and patriarchy, and whose misfortunes cast long shadows in the hearts of the girls who survived
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Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin
On why re-examining our “dialects” is about resisting hierarchies, opposing discrimination, and pursuing linguistic justice, rather than cultural “orthodoxy”.
On the ephemeral ‘digital public sphere’ and the contentification of everything
When I try to think through why Xiaohongshu as a platform has always felt weird to me, I realize that it might just be a reflection of what the internet would look like if the logic of contentification completely dominates how we interact with others and perform ourselves online. If platforms have a language, justContinueContinue reading “On the ephemeral ‘digital public sphere’ and the contentification of everything”
COVID-19 timeline (as of January 2020)
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Tweets on politics and the Chinese language
I doubt if I’ll have time for any ‘serious’ blogging here but for now I might use this place for organizing and recollecting some of my tweets – or, fragments of thought in the time of fragmentation. Today’s theme is politics and the Chinese language, including political “newspeak”, internet slang terms, and some other stuff.ContinueContinue reading “Tweets on politics and the Chinese language”
Chenchen Zhang 