China Meme Report From rice bunnies to grass mud horses, an interview with An Xiao Mina Posted on April 16, 2018 by An Xiao Mina In this Refinery 29 podcast, host Elisa Kreisinger speaks with An Xiao Mina about how internet memes and social movements are intertwined in China. Topics cover include: How the #MeToo movement tripped up trying to cross the Great Firewall only to emerge as a series of cute homonymic emojis: 🍚🐰 (rice bunny) How An’s… Continue readingFrom rice bunnies to grass mud horses, an interview with An Xiao Mina
Mini-documentary on Cult Youth on making comix in China Posted on July 17, 2013 by Jason Li CULT YOUTH from Diesel New Voices (by Coco Wang and Mi You) on Vimeo. Just discovered this gem recently, an 8-minute mini-documentary about the people behind Cult Youth, one of the leading underground comic groups in China today. What comes off as surprising for a group whose motto includes “If you were… Continue readingMini-documentary on Cult Youth on making comix in China