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In Chinese internet parlance, to 装B (zhuāng bì) is to put on airs — worldly, moneyed, educated, eccentric, or any other combination thereof. In other words: to be a fucking poser.
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Continue readingZHUANG B — (v.) to be a poser
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from an article on Lucky Peach called I Eat, You Watch, written by our very own Christina Xu:
“Can you show me some of your favorites?” I asked, expecting her to share the latest Chinese memes. Instead, she giggled in embarrassment and scrolled through a feed dominated…
Continue readingLive-Streaming Meals: inviting your internet neighbors over for dinner in China
Editor’s note: As part of her work on Multi Entry, Christina has been building a curated collection of illustrators from Mainland Chinese on Pinterest. Below are some of our favorites from her collection. Please get in touch if you have any illustrators you’d like to recommend!
Continue readingA curated directory of illustrators from Mainland China
Red envelopes used to be a simple joy. On a festive occasion like Chinese New Year, people exchanged perfumed red-and-gold paper envelopes stuffed with cash to signify good will. For Chinese kids, it was like Trick or Treat but infinitely better—kneel in front of your elders in a New Year’s greeting, and you’d walk away with cold, hard cash to spend on…
Continue readingAdvanced Red Envelope Techniques
During a ten week trip through China, I added over 150 contacts on WeChat, China’s overwhelmingly dominant messaging app. If we weren’t being introduced by mutual friends online, we usually used the most common way for people to add each other in…
Continue readingAre You Scanning Me, or Am I Scanning You?
On the way back to Shanghai from our fieldwork trip in rural Guizhou, Tricia and I decided to go shopping at Guiyang’s Hunter City Mall. Guiyang is the capital city of the poorest province in China, but it’s…
Continue readingPictures of Chinese People Scanning QR Codes