Tag Archives: Village

There’s a void called the countryside – visions of dying village life

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. Migrant workers tend to be presented as an anonymous mass, and thought of either as … Continue reading

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A village with only one restaurant

Below is a translation of a joke that is currently being circulated widely on Sina Weibo and other Chinese social networks: There is a village that only has one restaurant. Everyone in the village has to eat at that restaurant. Villager: Why can’t … Continue reading

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