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Frisson
Jan 16 min read
東北文藝復興 The Dongbei Renaissance and 底層文學 Ground Floor Literature: A Review of Granta's China Issue
Photo by Michael Falcon on Unsplash An obligatory industrial scene from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, hometown of one of the authors of the...
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Frisson
Nov 23, 20245 min read
Hotel Sontag
Marie Antoinette Sontag was an influential associate of the Korean imperial court who first came to Joseon (Korea) to head the household...
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Frisson
Nov 3, 20243 min read
Resolving Mental Friction
Photo by Eric Prouzet on Unsplash 精神內耗 There is a popular psychological concept from the Chinese speaking world known as 精神內耗 ...
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Frisson
Oct 12, 20244 min read
Starting a Wildfire: A Review of Sparks by Ian Johnson
The self-published mimeographed magazine that gives Ian Johnson’s journalistic book Sparks [1] its title takes its own name from a...
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Frisson
Jul 28, 20247 min read
In the Name of Science: Medical Atrocities Performed in Harbin and Xinjiang
· China, Xinjiang, 喀什 Tashkurgan, 古城路Photo by Texco Kwok on Unsplash On the territorial outskirts of China, secret facilities are...
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Frisson
Jun 25, 20247 min read
Foreign Relations Within the Family: 4B as a Policy for the Protection of Women
In advance of the trade summit set to take place in City X, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement of terms in the form of...
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Frisson
May 12, 202411 min read
The Lost Generations: Comparing the Chinese Opium Crisis and the American Opioid Epidemic
Photo by Ingo Doerrie on Unsplash Opium has been consumed as both a medicine and a poison for centuries, attested to by archaeological...
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Frisson
Apr 21, 20247 min read
Will Reshoring Alleviate Women’s Poverty?
Photo by TruckRun on Unsplash What do you picture when you hear the term ¨working class¨? Most would likely paint a picture of a...
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Frisson
Dec 17, 20235 min read
The Department of Psychological Warfare
Port of Mariel, Cuba Photo by Pavel Mata on Unsplash In a collection of oral histories on the Cuban exodus to the United States in the...
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Frisson
Oct 29, 20236 min read
The Politics of Abortion in Asia and Euro-America
The Seahorse, the only male animal that gives birth Photo by Jules Marvin Eguilos on Unsplash It’s more than one year in the United...
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Frisson
Apr 17, 20238 min read
Nonmonogamy and the Moso People: Trends in Family Formation
Marriage. How much sorrow, misery, humiliation; how many tears and curses; what agony and suffering has this word brought to humanity....
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Frisson
Mar 26, 20234 min read
Wide Sargasso Sea
Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen on Unsplash A giant, reeking mass in the Atlantic, coming to invade the Florida coast – this is the language...
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Frisson
Feb 18, 20233 min read
Small Victories
After years of avoiding it (for no reason), I've finally been reading Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. This classic work on...
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Frisson
Jan 30, 20237 min read
張愛玲Eileen Chang and Athleisure
Image found in "Shanghai Modern" by Lee Ou-fan, pg. 149 Original caption reads "Eileen Chang in a theatrical pose." One of the most...
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Frisson
Jan 23, 20236 min read
“The Beauty of the Flames”: Another Suspicious Fire Breaks out in Prime Seoul Real Estate
The legend of Nero singing while the Roman slums burned is, according to the historian Tacitus, most likely false. But the global...
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Frisson
Nov 29, 20226 min read
Why Not Let the Birth Rate Alone?
After the recorded population of the world was registered at 8 billion people a week ago, – the highest yet – a slew of articles came out...
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Frisson
Sep 10, 20228 min read
Down with Development
“Art and Culture”: an opaque shield for capital accumulation by dispossession (the process otherwise known by its euphemism...
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Frisson
Jul 18, 20221 min read
Reading List for the New "Ecriture Feminine"
The French theorist Helene Cixous coined the term "ecriture feminine" in her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa." For her, the term was...
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Frisson
Jul 1, 20225 min read
A Thief's Temple
Somewhere in Xindian, Taiwan, there is an informal open air temple with just one statue inside. It’s a gold colored statue of a...
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Frisson
Jul 1, 20227 min read
Finding the Feminist City
Whenever a book sets out to be critical or “radical,” there must be a million people lining up to discuss why it doesn’t go far enough,...
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