Farewell Chaoyang Trap and thanks for all the stickers 👋🏼❗️ Posting a remixed illustration I did for their noodly food issue (S02E06). In case you missed their glorious run, Chaoyang Trap published some of the freshest writings about China sub/internet/pop culture for the last two years ✌🏼 – they announced this week they’re wrapping up the operation for good 🥲
They will be survived by their writers and their archives at https://chaoyangtrap.house/
My good friends from #ChaoyangTrap have another great piece of communal cultural commentary on China's digital society, out today. This time on #Chinese online #basketball #subcultures and the #toxicmasculinity within one of the big ones, Hupu.
https://chaoyang.substack.com/p/s02-episode-10-the-chad-to-virgin
I actually use Chaoyang Trap for #teaching and #lecturing, particularly my week on subcultures in #China. They have an amazing set of articles on #geekdoms, subcultures, and trends in China #ChinaStudies
To discuss #InternetCelebrity / #WangHong and #Influencers in China, I also ask the students to read this piee on beauty influencers:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1737154
And this piee by myself and two friends on #wanghongurbanism in China which we wrote for #ChaoyangTrap:
