Tag Archives: lying flat

2025: Two Articles on China’s Current National Mood/Social Mentality

Posted on 09/23/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

See also: Cultivating a Rational and Calm Social Mentality — How Should We View the Current Social Mentality in China?Published: March 28, 2025 | Source: Theoretical Hotspots Face to Face Official WeChat 培育理性平和的社会心态——如何看待当前中国的社会心态？ “Lying flat,” “involution,” “Buddha-like,” “mental internal friction,” … Continue reading →

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2025: ChatGPT5 on China’s National Mood

Posted on 09/02/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Much like the DeepS response 2025: China’s DeepSeek AI on China’s National Mood , focusing on the individual but going a bit further into the social with some discussion of “lying flat” youth disillusionment. I’ll give you the translation first and … Continue reading →

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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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2022: Novelist Azabu Keiba on Tokyo, Youth, Rat Race

Posted on 03/13/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Interview with 30-something Japanese novelist Azabu Keiba 麻布競馬場 on Japanese youth, feelings of being worn out by hopeless competition, country vs. big city Tokyo. His 2022 book 『この部屋から東京タワーは永遠に見えない』麻布競馬場著（集英社） [“Tokyo Tower Can Never Be Seen From This Room”] relates the hallmarks … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC College Grads Seek Jobs in Africa

Posted on 07/21/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

With unemployment among recent college graduates rising in China, some of the more adventurous graduates are looking for jobs with Chinese companies or merchants in Africa. The Chinese Communist Youth League‘s newspaper China Youth Daily reports. Looking at unconventional job … Continue reading →

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2023: On Eating Bitterness and the Shortcomings of Broken English as Translation

Posted on 06/01/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Don’t those Chinese young people complaining about their 20% unemployment rate, some them turning out to be layabouts, lying flat hippies! Not like Secretary Xi back in the day when he was sent down/volunteered to the countryside he climbed mountain … Continue reading →

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2023: Runological Studies: Leaving China

Posted on 02/11/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Three years of economic slump owing to COVID and the brutal enforcement of isolation measures as well as an accumulation of many other things: saturation of the real estate market, corruption, and likely accumulated resentments of especially strong during the … Continue reading →

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2022: Chinese Law Prof’s Lament and Encouragement

Posted on 01/29/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Tsinghua University Law Professor Lao Dongyan‘s article combines lamentations about the current trends in society and legal practice with a determination to keep up the fight for what seems the ever-more-distant goal of the rule of law in China. Professor … 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: 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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