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@beijingpalmer.bsky.social I’m combining these 👆👇 posts by explaining why I have a pile of 1980s rpgs that I’ve never played.

(I didn’t have any friends and reading the rulebooks was more interesting than playing the game anyway…)

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@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social For a text that argued that a political lens serves us poorly for understanding Chinese literature it was oddly political in itself.

I suppose the cost of access these days is a certain amount of biaotai 表态.


@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social Speaking of disclaimers, I subscribed to Granta a while ago and the editorials make my spidey-sense tingle a bit.

Saying that China was ”first to withdraw [their ambitions] from the geopolitical scene” and calling the war in Ukraine a ”proxy war” are rather particular ways of framing the issues.





@camerondcampbell.blog This is how you tell me you’ve learnt Cantonese by watching action movies without telling me you’ve learnt Cantonese by watching action movies.


@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Isn’t that Ong’s ‘Orality and Literacy’ in a nutshell? Reading in itself trains people in abstract thought and enables separation of concepts from concrete objects (in particular persons, since in orality-based ways of thinking concepts are mostly mediated by someone speaking).


@malkintrash.bsky.social It also gives a feeling for how the period between the industrial revolution and the gig economy has been compressed to one or two generations for many people in China.


@malkintrash.bsky.social In a sense intergenerational trauma is at the centre of this book: the authors grandmother committed suicide.

A lot of the other workers portrayed work obsessively not only for their own pension but also to make sure that their children back home can marry(买房买车生子).

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