Day: March 12, 2019

Into the Black Mirror: The Truth Behind China’s Social Credit System

Into the Black Mirror: The Truth Behind China’s Social Credit System “Blacklists… data… credit scores… all sensationalized elements of the Chinese policy plan regularly blasted as reminiscent of 1984: the Social Credit System. Often compared with chilling dystopian science-fiction episodes, the topic has received breathless coverage from some members of the international media, but information…

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Anxious Pedigree: From Fresh-Off-The-Boat to “Crazy Rich Asians” – Los Angeles Review of Books

Anxious Pedigree: From Fresh-Off-The-Boat to “Crazy Rich Asians” – Los Angeles Review of Books Only just saw the film (CRA) and ran across this from Anne Anlin Chen: “If the object of a stereotype acts out the stereotype, is it internalized self-hatred or is it subversive satire? We have been asking this unproductive question about…

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