Love the student energy! Having started a program, I have ideas on what I could have/should have done better. Always happy to share if you are taking those steps.

Another headline on Sina right now: "As Americans Rush to Xiaohongshu, It's the End for Jewish Capital!"

According to this piece, zoomers are joining the app because "they don't want to be controlled and brainwashed" by shadowy Jewish tech barons. Welcome to the world of PRC media, we hate it here!

Speaks volumes about what? I want to understand what she thinks it means.

For now, I will just say that the series underscores how well the novel depicts the expat bubble. It was never clear to me whether Lee was critiquing that segment of society, but she certainly understood it and wrote it well.

Only two episodes are available now. When it is all up, we can unpack!

I have been trying to avoid the reviews until I watch it. This one is in my queue.

I would say not to bother, but I would like to hear your thoughts on the "orphanage" scene in episode 2.

I will watch it using a VPN, but making the point, as folks in HK predicted, the series about HK is not being streamed in HK.

I'm writing about it. I deconstruct watch.

Read the room!