E267: Ex-Pat Zerg Rush w/ Nise_Yoshimi

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Andy are joined by Sean, prolific poster and blogger and short fiction writer, to talk about the changes he has seen over the last decade as an expat worker in both mainland China and Hong Kong.

What shifts in politics, the economy and social life has he seen? What is the material basis for Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign? In what ways is the 'reform and opening up' period of 'market Stalinism' similar to Tony Blair's New Labour Britain? What does the imperial and post-imperial gaze on Hong Kong and the east more generally say about western precepts of China and Chinese capitalism? Is a new social explosion in China on its way or are we all, even in the west, lying flat for the foreseeable future?

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0:00.0	My life gets on my life gets on company about you.
0:09.3	You've always like you've got like thousands of people following you.
0:12.8	You can't keep using Japanese girls.
0:14.8	And you think when you had 10 followers.
0:17.1	Well, we are proud to welcome Nisei Yoshimi, bloggers,
0:24.2	fiction writer, Twitter, Rock and Tour, whose work can be found at lateral thinking
0:29.0	technology at WordPress.com. Welcome to the show. Is it all right if we call you Sean?
0:36.1	Yeah, yeah, that's fine with me.
0:38.2	All right, well, we'll do that instead of calling you a Japanese
0:41.7	girl's name. Yeah, I'd appreciate that.
0:45.4	I'm guessing you got that name. Well, this is just a guess.
0:49.7	Did you get it from the Flaming Lipsong?
0:52.2	Yeah, um, Yashimi Batt in battles the pink robots, one of my
0:55.0	old-time favorite songs. And yeah, I just, um, I picked that for a Twitter thing, like on a whim.
1:00.6	And it just haunts me now. You are a, um, a welcomed guest. You come to us, uh, with a great time
1:10.6	differential, uh, 12 hours exactly you are in
1:14.9	Hong Kong right now is that correct yeah yeah I live and work in Hong Kong at the moment
1:20.3	and how long have you lived in Hong Kong for just a year I moved to Hong Kong from
1:26.7	mainland China in January this year. I moved to Hong Kong from mainland China in January this year.
1:30.3	After I always forget seven or eight years on the mainland. I'm bad at numbers, really bad.
1:36.3	But it was like almost a decade, like 2015 to 2024.
1:41.3	All right. And that's one of the reasons we're having you on.
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