Archive - Chaoyang Trap

Chaoyang Trap Says Goodbye

Chaoyang Trap has left the chat

Feb 4, 2023 •

November 2022

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…

Nov 15, 2022 •

October 2022

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

Oct 25, 2022 •

June 2022

We're Taking a Summer Break

(paid subscriptions will be paused for a few months)

Jun 7, 2022 •

May 2022

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…

May 17, 2022 •

Introducing: The Chaoyang Review of Books

A new Chaoyang Trap series. Write reviews for us!

May 10, 2022 •

April 2022

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

Apr 29, 2022 •

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

Apr 6, 2022 •

March 2022

S02 Episode 8: Jokerfied on Literary Pornhub

Slash fiction in China post AO3: hitting the org//asm paywall + meal replacement fandom diets + Alpha-Omega-McDonald’s + cyber tomb-sweeping

Mar 24, 2022 •

*NSFW* S02 Episode 7: Horny on Mainland

Pornography in China: desiring the potato queens + erotic-cultural imperialism + porn stars as teachers + smut hooliganism

Mar 10, 2022 •

February 2022

S02 Episode 6: Hot Dry Noodle Takes

Pizza dough radicals + The secret history of Shaxian Foods + “a very sad flowchart” + the Chongqing noodle gentrification theory

Feb 22, 2022 •

January 2022

Rewilding #3: Rear Waves

An evolving dictionary of the Chinese web: Receding dreams + cut chives + positive energy orgies + Chinese youth react to daddy vibes

Jan 25, 2022 •

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