Tweets of the Week: Vices during COVID, China's Grindr, Pokemon, Cultural Revolution, Warring States, and Tankies

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Air-Moving Device @AirMovingDevice

Vices in the Time of Coronavirus | 疫情中的黄赌毒 I analyzed police reports (administrative penalties 行政处罚) of prostitution, gambling, and drug use in Zhejiang province during the pandemic. Nature is healing!

Simon Rabinovitch @S_Rabinovitch

Hottest Couple of the Year, 2018

Xeno³ 🛸🛸🛸 @x3nome

New Pokémon Grandpa sighting in #Taiwan. Pure cyberpunk 🛰️ Photos by Ryan Hello via FB. m.facebook.com/groups/6478913…

Eddie Du @Edourdoo

Talking about frenemies. CCTV, knowing that CNN has more credibility than itself, posts an entire CNN report about Beijing's anti-coronavirus measures to its Douyin account.

Bill Kerr @william_r_kerr

A scary paper for our scary times … Kato and Sparber (commons.colgate.edu/econ_facschol/…) study the reduction in the number of #H1B visas in 2004 on NEW student enrollment into US schools

tianyu m. fang @tianyuf

"Several times each year, Geng had to play a cat-and-mouse game with local authorities who often shut down his website, though there was nothing illegal about homosexuality — ironically, Geng was then a deputy division director in the Qinhuangdao police force." @RadiiChina

Geng founded Blued, the Chinese Grindr equivalent. Full article here.

Tony Lin @tony_zy

Li Zhensheng, the Lucie-Award winning photojournalist who took over 100,000 photos during cultural revolution, reportedly passed away in New York. It’s impossible to revisit CR history without the massive archive he left behind while working as a reporter at Heilongjiang Daily

Thread with more fantastic photos and Tony’s reflections on meeting him in person.

tine. @tineneil

tankies be like

WarringStates @StatesWarring

If you're 25-30, and your main circle isn't frequently discussing: ~ Conquering Ba and Shu ~ Penal reform ~ Cultivating the wastelands And is instead discussing: ~ Righteousness and benevolence ~ Universal love ~ Rites and music Then it's time to elevate your circle

The Wealth Dad 💰📈 @thewealthdad

If you're 25-30, and your main circle isn't frequently discussing: ~ Stocks ~ Real Estate ~ Opening businesses ~ Committed relationships ~ Fitness And is instead discussing: ~ Getting high/drunk ~ 1 night stands ~ The "good ol'e days" Then it's time to elevate your circle

Wenrui Wu @WenruiDonovanWu

How do you coerce drivers to slow down? Put a scarecrow in the middle of the road, of course. LOL

XIRAN, Chinese History Educational Shitposter @XiranJayZhao

people be like "sorry if my English is bad it is not my first language" and then proceeds to write a whole master's thesis on an internet post

Lenny Bogdonoff @rememberlenny

“But what happens when things do not get better each and every year? What happens when the Americans suffer a stinging, public setback? What happens when the rest of the world reaches out and touches Americans on terms other than America’s” From The Accidental Superpower.

William Yang @WilliamYang120

It is equally bizarre that he was once a Knight fellow at Stanford, a “Freedom Forum Fellow” at @uhmanoa and a World Press Institute fellow. Yet he tweets out content like this in public.

James Palmer @BeijingPalmer

@WilliamYang120 @uhmanoa he wasn't given those posts because of personal merit, it was because of the belief that we had to 'reach out' to Chinese media - there were a lot of shitty conferences where people would nod along to ideas like 'our idea of press freedom is different.'

Mulboyne @Mulboyne

Japanese mascots, the early years.

Chenchen Zhang🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzh

📢📢 folks! The first episode of #时差 #podcast is now LIVE! On race and racism in the Chinese context with @dikaioslin @tingguowrites @andyhanlunli. Apologies for the audio quality. I did my best. 其他几个人都还好，三土那边噪音特别多有点遗憾🥺 buzzsprout.com/1171871/424985…

buzzsprout.com时差#01 中国语境下的种族话语和种族主义（上） - 时差 in-betweenness《时差》首期节目对谈人：张晨晨、郭婷、林垚、李瀚伦简介：这期节目我们讨论了种族话语和种族主义是如何参与到中国的国族建构中，与我们的国族身份有何联系，在社会文化中的种种表现等。因为这期对谈的时间特别长，分成上下两个部分。下半部分中我们还谈到：种族与性别，种族民族主义(racial nationalism)与父权制的共同塑造下有关跨种族婚姻的态度和叙事，自由派民运人士和右翼民族主义者在种族主义方面的相似与不同，汉族中心的华夏秩序对“少数民族”的他者化和边缘化，美国语境下“泛亚”身份（pan-A...

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