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I wrote about the Chinese math kids turned AI superstars, and what it’s like meeting my much smarter (and richer) classmates in Silicon Valley.
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Viola Zhou
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Viola Zhou
@violazhouyi
reporter @restofworld covering tech and humans. formerly @viceworldnews @scmpnews. 📧 [email protected].
- Chinese internet trolls are changing their profile pictures to white American cops and adopting names such as “Sheriff Roberson,” so they could harass black influencers. restofworld.org/2023/chinese-s… via @restofworld
- The Utah County has accidentally become a wedding haven for same-sex couples from China during the pandemic. Tho not legally recognized in China, the Zoom weddings have allowed couples to celebrate their love with family and friends, with just over $100.
- This summer, @NilChristopher and I traveled to Sunguvarchatram, India, to find out how Foxconn prepared for the upcoming launch of iPhone 15. This supply chain shift brought Chinese and Indian workers together in an unlikely way 🧵 restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i… via @restofworld
- #Exclusive Chinese short-video apps are quietly cracking down on influencers in Africa, who have built fortunes producing racist, misogynist content, after BBC investigation Racism for Sale triggered outcry across Africa restofworld.org/2022/china-rac… via @restofworld
- “I beg you please..I really understand what I did wrong now.” WeChat is asking some users to submit handwritten letters before it agrees to unlock their banned accounts. Users shared with us what they’ve spent hours writing: restofworld.org/2022/handwritt… via @restofworld
- Pianist accused of soliciting prostitute looks like this in the latest ep of hit Chinese reality show.. this kind of total erasure is happening so often that everyone finds it perfectly normal.
- Talked to Chinese rappers about why they are not supporting #BlackLivesMatter, despite playing black music for a living. censorship, state narrative against civil activism, racism all contribute to the disconnect between hip hop and its black roots inkstonenews.com/arts/why-china…
- Companies are now under pressure to choose between buying Xinjiang cotton and getting boycotted in China. HK-listed @ANTAsportswear just issued a statement on Weibo: we have always been using Xinjiang cotton..
- Cantonese livestreamers say Douyin, China’s most popular video app, is cutting them off for speaking an “unrecognizable language,” and making them switch to Mandarin restofworld.org/2022/douyin-ca… via @restofworld
- Replying to @violazhouyiMany hamster owners have posted their locations and the number of extra pets they could take in, reminding me of the time when people offered accommodation to protesters kicked out of their homes
- After hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the extradition law, one Hongkonger, actress Charmaine Sheh, liked an Instagram video showing the massive crowd. She would come to regret it.
- More young women in China are looking to date men who are feminist allies, but young men are lagging behind them in gender ideology. Talked to some women who have given their (ex-)boyfriends and potential dates the Yang Li test vice.com/en/article/jg8… via @viceworldnews
- Snowden followed Wang Xing in quoting a Tang dynasty poem on Qin dynasty tyranny: the thousand-year tradition of using historical events/texts to make veiled criticism of the government continues today, because censorship has also continued to the present
