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S02 Episode 10: The Chad to Virgin Pipeline
How Hupu shelters rampant misogyny for profit: the contours of China’s basketball fandom + the great fanquan wars + college dorm LARPs + how to stop…
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Rewilding #4: Society of the Scalper
An evolving dictionary of the Chinese web: train ticket hacks + Judith Butler voices + DdoS as method + the huangniu inside us all
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We're Taking a Summer Break
(paid subscriptions will be paused for a few months)
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Chaoyang Review 001: “A Nickelodeon Riff on Camus”
Reviews of: The new album from Xi’an post-punk band FAZI, a Wechat sticker pack that’s more picture book than reaction GIF, and a definitive ranking of…
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Introducing: The Chaoyang Review of Books
A new Chaoyang Trap series. Write reviews for us!
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Far & Near x Chaoyang Trap: Lockdown, Normalized
Stories from the Shanghai lockdown: PCR test body horror + “Run P.R.C” + quarantine hotel pop-up concepts + Voices of April
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S02 Episode 9: China Dreams of Electric Words
The curious case of the “Chinese Dictionary”: BBK master race + dither punk sinofuturism + playdating for two decades + homebrew tamagotchi
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