Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️
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migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
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yes. if anyone in Denmark wants to use the name in the future, they can save the hassle.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
yes. if anyone in Denmark wants to use the name in the future, they can save the hassle.
you can! you just need to go through the application process and I went through it
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then he's of course free to give himself whatever name he likes!
btw because he was born in Denmark, where there's a ridiculous law that requires you to apply for approval for any names that are not included in an official list of 'legitimate names', it took us a long time to get approval!
btw because he was born in Denmark, where there's a ridiculous law that requires you to apply for approval for any names that are not included in an official list of 'legitimate names', it took us a long time to get approval!
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
you can! you just need to go through the application process and I went through it
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(which often comes from religious traditions), you may as well just adopt a local one to make life easier no?
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
(which often comes from religious traditions), you may as well just adopt a local one to make life easier no?
this also connects to my earlier thoughts about adopting 'western' names among the diaspora... apart from other structural reasons (racism etc), there's also the naming system difference. if you don't have a pre-existing list to choose from
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A little thread about names and immigration. It makes me incredibly happy and relieved that everyone in my son's nursery, including the 3-4 year olds could say his name perfectly. and they say they like his name. why the fears? after all, no one would lift a finger if say French people
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
this also connects to my earlier thoughts about adopting 'western' names among the diaspora... apart from other structural reasons (racism etc), there's also the naming system difference. if you don't have a pre-existing list to choose from
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combine them freely. And people like to have unique names that no one else has. Are there any other examples like this? I think even in Japan and Korea there are semi-closed naming polls?
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
combine them freely. And people like to have unique names that no one else has. Are there any other examples like this? I think even in Japan and Korea there are semi-closed naming polls?
you have no idea 😭
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
you have no idea 😭
over time, however, TV watchers have established themselves as the originator of the most authoritative knowledge about TV ...
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
over time, however, TV watchers have established themselves as the originator of the most authoritative knowledge about TV ...
"China watching" is a cold-war-origin, US-centric, and arguably imperial concept.
so, if the survey finds that most of the "China watchers" are US-based academics, it's probably that the concept itself is aligned with that positionality.
so, if the survey finds that most of the "China watchers" are US-based academics, it's probably that the concept itself is aligned with that positionality.
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"China watching" is a cold-war-origin, US-centric, and arguably imperial concept.
so, if the survey finds that most of the "China watchers" are US-based academics, it's probably that the concept itself is aligned with that positionality.
so, if the survey finds that most of the "China watchers" are US-based academics, it's probably that the concept itself is aligned with that positionality.
Ursula K. le Guin's understanding of technology resonates with Graeber & Wengrow's rethinking of civilization here. both good food for thought in a time when technology seems more repressive than liberatory and civ discourse often justifies hierarchy and domination.
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this take on civilization is so refreshing to read when I'm trying to write about how contemporary civilizational discourse has gone terribly wrong & tied up with reactionary politics
Graeber & Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
Graeber & Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Ursula K. le Guin's understanding of technology resonates with Graeber & Wengrow's rethinking of civilization here. both good food for thought in a time when technology seems more repressive than liberatory and civ discourse often justifies hierarchy and domination.
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fair enough. but the veggies are overcooked, like everything else. admittedly I've been spoiled by places that take food very seriously (China, Japan, Italy), and it's also interesting to think about it from a sociohistorical perspective (early industrialisation etc)
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
fair enough. but the veggies are overcooked, like everything else. admittedly I've been spoiled by places that take food very seriously (China, Japan, Italy), and it's also interesting to think about it from a sociohistorical perspective (early industrialisation etc)
I live in an area where on Sunday, all restaurants serve nothing but "Sunday roast". I feel like... I've never been to a place where people take food more unseriously than this lol
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I live in an area where on Sunday, all restaurants serve nothing but "Sunday roast". I feel like... I've never been to a place where people take food more unseriously than this lol
I think this is a very popular opinion...
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I think this is a very popular opinion...
yeah fictions or art works are always open to interpretation. so what interested me was really how readers used characters, analogies & "theories" from the fiction to make political arguments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
yeah fictions or art works are always open to interpretation. so what interested me was really how readers used characters, analogies & "theories" from the fiction to make political arguments.