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I. When the Water Came, It Chose a CityIn the early hours of August 1st, 2023, the city of Zhuozhou—a modest northern town with a population of 650,000—woke to find itself underwater.
Res...
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Sometimes I wonder—oh, in this society, doing something completely normal is enough to make you an outlier.I didn’t do anything big. I just cut through a few locks. I only wanted to step...
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Prologue: A Night of ViolenceIn the early hours of June 10, 2022, a brutal act of gender-based violence shook Ch...
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“I want to see the world, but I keep hitting a wall.”— Comment under Namewee’s song “Outside the Wall”
When Malaysian rapper and filmmaker Namewee released his song Outside the Wall, he l...
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1. Can Karaoke Overthrow a Regime?—Carnivalesque Protest and the New Role of MusicIn 2014, one night in Hong Kong looked like this: a few tents, some lanterns, and a group of young people...
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“For the big questions, Dajia lived—and for the big questions, Dajia died.” — Jia Jia, founding editor
I. A New Level of SilenceAs China entered its second year of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Preface: On Memory and LossThis report was first completed in December 2017. At the time, I had just returned from Tianjin, carrying dozens of audio recordings, stacks of notebooks, and h...
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How do you determine if someone is “one of us”?
Is it someone who speaks the same language? Shares a similar skin tone? Has the same faith, political stance, or values?
What seems like a...
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In the vast, rugged landscape of China’s Xinjiang region, a sprawling system of detention centers has quietly risen — transforming the daily lives of millions of Uyghurs and other Muslim ...
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Even now, in this age of instant connection and seamless borders, there are those who live in exile.This is the story of Dondrup.
In Tibetan, his name means “to fulfill deeds of meaning.”...