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In 2024, social media posts about people going to "fake offices" to "pretend to work" went viral in China. Local news described these offices as ways to keep up appearances and avoid the stigma of being jobless. Lavender Au visited one to see if that was true, and what people did there all day.
What’s Going On at Beijing’s “Fake Offices”? — The Dial
Lavender Au reports on the rise of “pretend to work” offices.
www.thedial.world
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In 2024, social media posts about people going to "fake offices" to "pretend to work" went viral in China. Local news described these offices as ways to keep up appearances and avoid the stigma of being jobless. Lavender Au visited one to see if that was true, and what people did there all day.
Reposted by Lavender Au
Although “people in China are acutely conscious of the limits of permissible speech,” Lavender Au writes, Chinese students living in the United States never expected to be contending with similar worries:
For Chinese Students, America Feels Just Like Home
But not in a good way.
bit.ly
July 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Although “people in China are acutely conscious of the limits of permissible speech,” Lavender Au writes, Chinese students living in the United States never expected to be contending with similar worries:
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‘This is the first time that many ordinary Chinese and ordinary Americans have had direct conversations, unimpeded by the Great Firewall.’
Lavender Au on the influx of ‘TikTok refugees’ on the Chinese app RedNote, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Lavender Au on the influx of ‘TikTok refugees’ on the Chinese app RedNote, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Lavender Au | ‘Are you like us?’
A standard English textbook in China asks students to compose a letter from someone called Li Hua to their British...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
‘This is the first time that many ordinary Chinese and ordinary Americans have had direct conversations, unimpeded by the Great Firewall.’
Lavender Au on the influx of ‘TikTok refugees’ on the Chinese app RedNote, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Lavender Au on the influx of ‘TikTok refugees’ on the Chinese app RedNote, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...