Desmond Shum @DesmondShum · 31 Aug 2026
From “Involution” to “Unworthy Forebears”: What China’s Internet Slang Reveals About Its Changing Social Psychology Yesterday, I came across a “Five Traps” formulation that had circulated in China around 2023. I had not paid much attention to it at the time, but I found it
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