This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Zhexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imagining a future in which China becomes the object, rather than the subject, of global racialisation. While Zhang’s usage was primarily a thought experiment, […]| Made in China Journal
Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.| Rest of World
Part 1 of a new series: an evolving dictionary of the Chinese internet. A close-up on the words that grow in the labyrinthine swamp of online life in China.| chaoyang.substack.com