Weekly #14: resilient living 🧗‍♀️“US$40 to take over Time Square!”🗽cherry blossom taste like...? 🌸| Following the yuan

Thanks to U.S. company TSX and Taobao merchants, normies in China can “enjoy 15 seconds of fame" on a giant screen in Times Square, and receive a video or postcard of it.

I went to a packed film screening last Sunday and it was a rare moment when I felt connected to the rest of the world from China. This sense of disconnection was definitely exacerbated by Covid and I can’t help thinking of my experience a year ago when I was deemed a secondary contact for a Covid case and forced to isolate for two weeks. I felt lonely a…