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China’s top internet buzzwords of 2022
25 hot online words, phrases, and memes from this year
December 29, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘Pandemic: Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!’ — Phrase of the Week
Pandemic fatigue is driving many Chinese social media users to pull out a popular phrase, in hopes of warding off the wave of COVID infections washing over the nation.
December 22, 2022 Source: The China Project
Posing like American farmers is the latest trend among Chinese influencers
After “U.S. high schoolers” and “shopping in Los Angeles,” pretending to be on an autumnal American farm is the latest “Americore” aesthetic to take over Chinese social media.
November 17, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘Keep calm under pressure’ — Phrase of the Week
A new Chinese internet phrase captures the mood of needing to keep calm and carry on.
October 28, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘Low grain prices hurt farmers’ — Phrase of the Week
Two online influencers disagree on the price of sweet corn. Each accuses the other of squeezing farmers’ margins.
October 7, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘So bored, his balls ache’ — phrase of the week
Are scholars who theorize about Chinese social media just bored out of their minds? Some Chinese internet users prefer a slightly more vulgar way to describe a certain type of ennui.
May 6, 2022 Source: The China Project
The Chinese internet reacts to Roe v. Wade leak
“For a country that talks big about human rights, American people seem incredibly vulnerable to human rights violations.”
May 5, 2022 Source: The China Project
Editor’s Note for Monday, May 2, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
May 2, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘Cute contrast’ — phrase of the week
A Taiwanese singer and fitness coach has gone viral in China with his home workout livestream. But it’s the ‘cute contrast’ of him and his wife that has helped win millions of fans in China.
April 29, 2022 Source: The China Project
Editor’s Note for Tuesday, April 26, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Musk buys Twitter. What does that mean for China?
April 26, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘I can’t believe our country is like this,’ and other conversations from the Shanghai lockdown
Today: An elderly man’s pleas get censored, a local protest goes viral, and more.
April 14, 2022 Source: The China Project
COVID lockdowns in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and around country
What is really going on in China with COVID?
April 11, 2022 Source: The China Project
Twitter mocked for new rule targeting Chinese state-affiliated media
Twitter thinks Peepee.poopoo.news.cn is an official Chinese government news source.
March 30, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘Too much to eat and not enough to do’ — phrase of the week
Eating too much food is a metaphor for being lazy in Chinese. It’s how one NPC delegate attending last week’s Two Sessions was criticized on social media.
March 18, 2022 Source: The China Project
Chinese social media comments on Ukrainian women provoke backlash
On Chinese social media, reactions to Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine varied from disbelief to outrage to support and everything in between. But misogynistic comments about potential Ukrainian refugees began trending — and extended beyond the virtual borders of the Chinese internet.
February 24, 2022 Source: The China Project
The metaverse social app that challenged WeChat
Zheli, a new Chinese social media company with metaverse tendencies, has come out of nowhere and is competing with WeChat.
February 14, 2022 Source: The China Project
Buoyed by Chinese consumers, L’Oréal defies earnings expectations
L’Oréal, the massive French beauty brand, posted record annual sales in 2021 on the strength of the Chinese cosmetics sector. The company’s future in China is bright as the country’s middle class is expected to expand by over 300 million people this decade.
February 10, 2022 Source: The China Project
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 — caught between the profit-making machine of social media and the shifting rhetoric of Chinese Communist Party politics.
November 4, 2021 Source: The China Project
LinkedIn gives up on Chinese social media dream
LinkedIn, which since 2014 has represented the largest social media portal through Beijing’s Great Firewall, has decided to close down its localized China version. Increased censorship pressure, compliance costs for new laws, local competition, and bad PR outside of China may have all contributed to the move.
October 14, 2021 Source: The China Project
Philippines foreign minister tweets profane insults at China over maritime dispute
After a month of lodging repeated diplomatic protests against the presence of Chinese fishing boats in disputed waters, the Philippines foreign minister took a less diplomatic approach on Twitter. He was gently rebuked by President Rodrigo Duterte for being “rude and disrespectful” to the Philippines’ “benefactor.”
May 3, 2021 Source: The China Project