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2025: PRC Youth Sentiment, Seeking Emotional Value of Products and Internal Emigration à la Russe?

Posted on 03/21/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

How to assess the morale and feelings of people in China these days? That is too complicated a question: especially in such a decentralized country that has provinces of differing cultures and culinary preferences that is a tough question. One … Continue reading →

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2021: Legal Daily Daily: Tianjin U Law Student and Faculty Discuss “Lying Flat”

Posted on 06/16/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Law Daily: Tianjin University Law School Students and Faculty Discuss “Lying Flat” From the June 16 issue of Legal Daily [Fazhi Ribao] (Reporter Jiang Anjie Correspondent Liu Bingyang Wang Cao) In order to carry further the fundamental task of moral … Continue reading →

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2021 Lie Flat Video Translated: Why Do “I” Lie Flat

Posted on 06/15/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

There are now quite a few videos about the “Lie Flat”[tangping 躺平] movement on Youtube. This video by Zhen Fei entitled “Confessions of a Young Person: Why am I lying flat? Social pressure and class conflict are involved, by the … Continue reading →

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2021: Liang Jianzhang: Too Many Force-Fed Baby Dragons — Abolish the National College Entrance Exam, Enable More Students to Attend University

Posted on 06/15/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The passive rebellion of China’s “lie flat” youth against declining socioeconomic mobility growing gaps in opportunity between youth in rural and urban areas and within urban areas is now a much-discussed topic in China. In the translation below, a Chinese … Continue reading →

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2021: A PRC Youth Subculture: Lying Flat is the Right Thing to Do!

Posted on 06/13/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is my translation of Asteria Wang’s exploration about what Lying Flat [tangping 躺平] people mean by lying flat. I suppose that such a radically individualist philosophical and social trend would have many branches and understandings of just what it … Continue reading →

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Labor Relations Party Secretary: Guide the “Lying Flat” to Cherish Their Youthful Vigor and to See that Hard Work Pays Off

Posted on 06/13/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Guangming Daily, a top PRC Communist Party newspaper aimed at educators and intellectuals, carried a article by the branch party secretary of the School of Economics and Management of the China Institute of Labor Relations. This article was shared by … Continue reading →

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Taking it Lying Down: China’s Bereavement Youth Culture

Posted on 06/12/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The Chinese subculture of dispirited youth called bereavement culture sangwenhua 丧文化 often symbolized by the reclining figure of a actor from a 90’s television show. One of the latest expressions of this culture is the call to tangping 躺平 “lie … Continue reading →

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