Yaling Jiang
@yaling.bsky.social
Covering Chinese consumers on Following the Yuan & research-focused consultancy ApertureChina; ex-journalist & translator, Cantonese learner
📍London/Shanghai
https://www.chineseconsumers.news
📍London/Shanghai
https://www.chineseconsumers.news
…and Peking University, prior to the launch of subsidies — to gauge the potential driving factors behind this policy-making.
If you’re a paid subscriber to Following the Yuan, please DM me on Substack/LinkedIn before Aug 21 (Thursday) to receive a Zoom link. 2/2
If you’re a paid subscriber to Following the Yuan, please DM me on Substack/LinkedIn before Aug 21 (Thursday) to receive a Zoom link. 2/2
August 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
…and Peking University, prior to the launch of subsidies — to gauge the potential driving factors behind this policy-making.
If you’re a paid subscriber to Following the Yuan, please DM me on Substack/LinkedIn before Aug 21 (Thursday) to receive a Zoom link. 2/2
If you’re a paid subscriber to Following the Yuan, please DM me on Substack/LinkedIn before Aug 21 (Thursday) to receive a Zoom link. 2/2
By comparing their envisioned future at graduation versus the reality, the comedy skit shows how Chinese graduates are reacting to the tough job market with humor and exaggeration (similar to ‘lie flat’). But there is also a certain amount of truth in it.
Read more: bit.ly/3GQZ3IW 2/2
Read more: bit.ly/3GQZ3IW 2/2
How do Chinese graduates *really* feel about the job market?🥀 | Following the yuan
"Three unemployed individuals who collectively spent 6M RMB on studying abroad," one post on RedNote reads.
www.chineseconsumers.news
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
By comparing their envisioned future at graduation versus the reality, the comedy skit shows how Chinese graduates are reacting to the tough job market with humor and exaggeration (similar to ‘lie flat’). But there is also a certain amount of truth in it.
Read more: bit.ly/3GQZ3IW 2/2
Read more: bit.ly/3GQZ3IW 2/2
I wrote this post last June to remember what we are not allowed to remember, and to share a few books/doc that have deepened my understanding of China and of myself: 3/3
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Forgetting and remembering June 💭 | Following the Yuan
Editors note: This week, after multiple rounds of starting to draft, pause and self-censor, I find it necessary to write something, still, about China’s collective amnesia phenomenon. To circumvent in...
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June 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I wrote this post last June to remember what we are not allowed to remember, and to share a few books/doc that have deepened my understanding of China and of myself: 3/3
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I believe China’s economic development — which gave rise to Chinese consumers’ spending power — owes much to its authoritarian regime, and its problems stem from it as well. 2/3
Forgetting and remembering June 💭 | Following the Yuan
Editors note: This week, after multiple rounds of starting to draft, pause and self-censor, I find it necessary to write something, still, about China’s collective amnesia phenomenon. To circumvent in...
substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I believe China’s economic development — which gave rise to Chinese consumers’ spending power — owes much to its authoritarian regime, and its problems stem from it as well. 2/3