Editor’s note for Thursday, November 4, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: How the beloved rural vlogger Li Ziqi become just another player in the platform economy โ caught between the profit-making machine of social media and the shifting rhetoric of Chinese Communist Party politics.
My thoughts today:
Known for her mesmerizing videos of rural self-sufficiency, Lว Zวqฤซ ๆๅญๆ offers viewers a pastoral escape from the technological ills of modernity. But her success is actually built around the very things that her on-screen lifestyle rejects. Rest of World examines how the beloved vlogger has become just another player in the platform economy โ caught between the profit-making machine of social media and the shifting rhetoric of Chinese Communist Party politics.
Our word of the day is COVID zero strategy, usually rendered as โzero transmission strategyโ (้ถไผ ๆญๆฟ็ญ lรญng chuรกnbล zhรจngcรจ).
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
