2019-09-08

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2019-09-08 10:04 pm

The Guardian novel ghost stories

I really liked how the ghost stories captured snapshots of Chinese society, so I'm going to briefly summarize them here!

Anyways, presented without additional comment:

1) Li Qian one child policy stuff )

2) Wang Zheng and Sang Zan democracy, sort of )

3) Wang Xiangyang, the Fruit-seller poor guy )

4) Runaway girl -- this one isn't particularly in depth, since by the 4th item, the focus is really on the mythology shenanigans, but I do like that there's transit logistics. more hukou stuff )

Complete aside, but I love that one of the grouses about the Underworld is that their file processing hasn't yet gone paperless.