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Translation: Wei Zhou on “Empathy for Authority”
Posted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 5, 2021
Wei Zhou is a rare voice in the world of WeChat public accounts, keeping his critiques of contemporary Chinese society just vague enough to stave off censorship (most of the time), yet relevant enough to amass a steady following. This March 30 post, translated in full below, lands in the midst of a nationalist boycott of H&M and other international brands in protest of their pledge not to use cotton from Xinjiang. Several internet users responded to the boycott by calling on their compatriots to “not just support Xinjiang cotton, [but] support Xinjiang people too.” Without mentioning the protests, or even Xinjiang directly, Wei Zhou writes about Chinese society, “In this system, people pay attention to their own feelings and interests, and have a hard time understanding the suffering of others.” There is also a timelessness to Wei Zhou’s analysis, showing how the regime and its p
Not quite China Rhyming’s usual historical period but often harking back to the early part of the twenty first century, Te Pin Chen’s (former WSJ China correspondent) collection of short stories,
Land of Big Numbers, bring to life many of the voiceless of recent Chinese history – migrant workers, back yard engineers, nail house residents, dissidents, emigres, stock market hopefuls, gig economy workers….Each one of the ten stories is fascinating….
A brother competes for gaming glory while his twin sister exposes the dark side of the
Communist government on her underground blog; a worker at a government call centre is alarmed one day to find herself speaking to a former lover; a delicious new fruit arrives at the neighbourhood market and the locals find it starts to affect their lives in ways they could never have imagined; and a young woman’s dreams of making it big in