Rewilding #4: Society of the Scalper - Chaoyang Trap
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An evolving dictionary of the Chinese web: train ticket hacks + Judith Butler voices + DdoS as method + the huangniu inside us all
In the house this week: Yan, Krish, Emily, ████, Simon, Caiwei, Henry, Tianyu, and Yi-Ling. Krish: Welcome back to Chaoyang Trap, the newsletter that separates the Group from the Chat in a new story form we call the Trap. We’re back from our “summer” “break” to wrap up Season 2 and 摆烂 for good. This is the closing edition of Rewilding, our series of explorations into the language of the Chinese internet. In each issue, we pick a word from the labyrinthine swamp of online life in China, lay it on the table, scrutinize it and take it apart in the form of a mini-essay, then replant the…
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