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hahaha i was just in chongqing and it was 40 too. they're not called the 四大火炉 for no reason.

Also how do you do the furigana like superscript?

I just came back from china where like 5 star hotels go for $100, luxury hotels go for like $50, and like regular ones for like $25 and these prices feel even more absurd...

still in china camp. got some running(while singing terrible ass karaoke w a friend but it was really fun). Hoping to get some rock climbing in before my flight(to a different part of china) tomorrow

what in particular. i detailed a bit in my other post

i just clicked cancel so now i gotta retype my comment 😭

it’s in chinese and it basically shows clips of foreigners vlogging and showing their reaction. i think there was a… russian? i don’t know what language the vlogger was saying(there were chinese subtitles tho), and it just went through a couple comments too. essentially detailing like comments about safety, infrastructure, rail, etc…

still at the china camp so not too much to report. slept kinda late up w friends last night but i don’t regret it. flying to fujian province later today.

Hmm I don’t think i actually asked about GLF. Cultural rev he acknowledged it was a mistake probably overall, but it wasn’t like a completely bad thing but yeah that living in a time where if you said something wrong it would be very scary. Tiananmen didn’t use the term color revolution cuz we were talking in chinese but basically described it as such and like we can talk about it but the problem with talking about online is if you’re like wrong then it becomes baseless speculation and that’s not really okay. problem of national security and like being against dissident voices isn’t something unique to china either really. hong kong/taiwan were like why would they want to even have independence they’re in the grand scheme of things rather small islands and doing well under the current administration ig. i don’t remember exactly what he said but something about those lines.

so pretty much mostly in line with what i expected.

Yes probably. I asked if they were part of the communist party and they said they were part of the youth one.

i’m not sure what you mean by the “so… i’m on such a camp” could you clarify? do you mean that you are on a similar chinese government funded camp?

oopsies if i am misreading or reading too much into it but just a bit confused

it’s government sponsored too. it’s basically the chinese government offering a free tour for chinese diaspora on their dime

i really liked this article. i’m pretty sure i’ve read it before but it was a good reminder.

something’s that stuck out to me was that he understood the material conditions of china really well. he mentioned how he doubts china would have survived june 4th without reform and opening up. he understood that capital wasn’t an inherently evil thing, contrary to moralism, and that it was something to be used to improve the lives of the chinese people.

another thing is it’s interesting to see “left” as what we refer to as ultras and “right” as well capitalist in general. it does make sense to see those things from their perspective having a socialist government though.

good read!

been at a summer camp in china so not too much time but been getting some running and taiji as well as some journaling in. really missing rock climbing hopefully i can do some when the camp finishes and i head to chongqing.

going pretty good