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Too fast to trap, too young to afford living in Chaoyang 😢
Two years ago, when we started this project in February 2021, we had an expiration date in mind. After two seasons, or 31 dispatches, it's finally time to say goodbye.
chaoyang.substack.com/p/good…
Just realized that every time I go from Canada to China and face some weird quarantine situation (~March 2020, Nov 2022), @csandkreme release a new album. Wish I didn't have to do quarantine but the music is great csandkreme.bandcamp.com/albu…
TFW you open an account at a new bank to get on payroll and you’re not sure if it’s a good or bad sign that they didn’t give you one of the bags of rice they had at the ready
Great article, can anyone recommend extremely online oolong?
For @mercury's Meridian magazine, i wrote about @white2tea and "extremely online Pu'er", and the ways in which the internet intersects with one of the world's most coveted types of tea: meridian.mercury.com/extreme…
Reading about rare mineral waters that possibly contain heavy metals and thinking "hmm, yeah, I want to try that"
It’s disturbing how widespread this type of video is. Powerful reporting from @RunakoCelina
Has anyone written anything about Chinese Covid testing shacks/shipping crates as vernacular architecture?
Please give us your nuanced takes on why stuff is (possibly) bad
ANNOUNCEMENT:
We're starting a regular series of reviews here on Chaoyang Trap. It's called the Chaoyang Review of Books. Or for short, just The Chaoyang Review.
tl;dr: We Review Everything.
chaoyang.substack.com/p/chao…
Please read this collaboration between @ChaoyangTrap and @YuanjinPhoto as we wait for Beijing's (im)pending lockdown
"Lockdown, Normalized," a collab with @YuanjinPhoto.
.@BeimengFu @yemingphoto @yancongphoto bring us photo essays, performance art, video collages, and howls of anguish from Shanghai residents seemingly stuck in an endless present.
chaoyang.substack.com/p/shan…
Thanks Krish! Seems slightly relevant to mention, I feel like 80s/90s China/Hong Kong/Taiwan new age and soundtracks could become the hot tip in reissue culture 2-3 years from now, potentially generating more Sakamoto-like types
Happy anniversary to (still) my favourite @ChaoyangTrap episode, where @simotalk uncovers the Cult of Ryuichi Sakamoto fandom in China, and @OpenBarLLC interviews poet Xiao Hai about the warmth of VR and the iciness of art that claims to speak for him: chaoyang.substack.com/p/ep3-…
Simon Frank retweeted
in ancient times, the Greeks invented the Olympic Games so that twenty eight centuries later we could obsess over the politics of a 18 year old athlete who loves jumping inside a half pipe of fake snow in a former steel plant
Our man in New Haven @sowithvoices on China's murder-mystery roleplaying parties. P.S., my comment this time asks whether I am incapable of making friends
“No hookups, yes Jubensha” - why does this strange declaration abound on Chinese dating apps?
In episode 5, @sowithvoices takes a deep dive into China's hot hybrid murder-mystery LARP parties and outlines the revolutionary potential of bad endings:
chaoyang.substack.com/p/murd…
Early 2022 highlight?
divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/…
Thanks @GongGongGong_BJ and @Talkhouse! Yu Su's album is indeed very good
#BestOf2021: @gonggonggong_bj talk Yu Su (@yuyuyvr), TOW, Simon Frank, and more
talkhouse.com/best-of-2021-g…
Thanks @krishraghav for selecting some Indi-Pop gems which I mixed together for baihui.live
For BAIHUI, @simotalk and I made a mix of 90s Indi-Pop:
Alisha, Mehnaz, @OnlyBabaSehgal, Remo, Colonial Cousins + the genre's origins in Pakistani pop like Nazia Hassan, and Amitabh Bachchan's singularly strange single 'Eer Bir Phatte.'
Listen here 👇
baihui.live/shows/whats-the-…
Actually I hadn't tweeted about it before but I have a bi-monthly show on Baihui (a new Beijing/Shanghai/Xiamen-based online radio station). Here's the first episode from October baihui.live/shows/whats-the-…
Simon Frank retweeted
Our last episode for 2021: "The Chaoyang Trap Gift Guide."
feat. getting tea drunk + Great Resignation starter packs + Old Heavens, fresh hells + glou glous for the discoteca + blatant Kwei’chow product placement
chaoyang.substack.com/p/2021…
The @ChaoyangTrap gift guide is here! Please consider this big if:
.@simotalk recommends Old Heaven Books in Shenzhen, an antidote to the dematerialization of retail in China. "They’re notable supporters of ethnic Kazakh musician Mamer / IZ—so if your loved ones are into dark Central Asian psychedelic industrial folk…"
oldheavenbooks.bandcamp.com/…
