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Translation: Wei Zhou on “Empathy for Authority” Posted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 5, 2021 Wei Zhou is a rare voice in the world of WeChat public accounts, keeping his critiques of contemporary Chinese society just vague enough to stave off censorship (most of the time), yet relevant enough to amass a steady following. This March 30 post, translated in full below, lands in the midst of a nationalist boycott of H&M and other international brands in protest of their pledge not to use cotton from Xinjiang. Several internet users responded to the boycott by calling on their compatriots to “n...

Not quite China Rhyming’s usual historical period but often harking back to the early part of the twenty first century, Te Pin Chen’s (former WSJ China correspondent) collection of short stories, Land of Big Numbers, bring to life many of the voiceless of recent Chinese history – migrant workers, back yard engineers, nail house residents, dissidents, emigres, stock market hopefuls, gig economy workers….Each one of the ten stories is fascinating…. A brother competes for gaming glory while his twin sister exposes the dark side of the Communist government on her underground blog; a w...

Review: The comforts of oppression, in a journalist's wildly inventive fiction Nathan Deuel © (Benjamin Carlson) Te-Ping Chen, right, author of the short story collection "Land of Big Numbers," in Chengdu, China in 2011. (Benjamin Carlson) Cao Cao, a villager in rural China, wants to join the Communist Party. Each year, he summits the hills at first light, harvesting the tastiest apricots to give the local party boss, who has rejected his application every year. So Cao Cao tries a more ambitious gambit, assembling trash and spare parts from his neighbors into a working plan...

Mariner: 256 pages, $16 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Cao Cao, a villager in rural China, wants to join the Communist Party. Each year, he summits the hills at first light, harvesting the tastiest apricots to give the local party boss, who has rejected his application every year. So Cao Cao tries a more ambitious gambit, assembling trash and spare parts from his neighbors into a working plane. He and his wife strap in tightly. The engine fires up. But the party boss is still unimpressed.

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