{"id":7868,"date":"2020-04-21T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2020-04-29T23:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:36:18","slug":"masks-in-recent-chinese-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2020\/04\/masks-in-recent-chinese-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks in recent Chinese History"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure that there will soon be a lot of scholarship on \u201cmask culture\u201d in Asia and how it helped East Asian countries extend their advantage over backward peoples like the Americans.<\/p>\n

Not to long ago, however, masks meant something else. The Hong Kong protest<\/a>s, which are still going on, are closely connected with masks. Not to keep Covid-19 in, but to protect you from tear gas. Masks, were, for a while, a symbol of resistance.<\/p>\n

Thus you get images like this,<\/p>\n

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And this.<\/p>\n

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These are both foreign inspired images, and the CCP has been insistent that the Hong Kong protesters are spitting the nation and rejecting Chinese-ness. This is bullshit for lots of reasons, but one of them is that the Hong Kong protesters are specifically tying themselves to Chinese tradition and identity as seen here.<\/p>\n

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One of the slogans of the movement is \u201cBe water\u201d, and you can\u2019t be much more Daoist than that, although a romantic couple is a modern touch.<\/p>\n

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I suspect someone could do more with all this, but I just wanted to post the pictures. If you want to know more you could contact the author of the presentation<\/a> I stole all this from, Gina Tam. She does a good job of explaining the complexities of Hong Kong identity and its relation to the Chinese Mother-in-law land.<\/p>\n

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So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure that there will soon be a lot of scholarship on \u201cmask culture\u201d in Asia and how it helped East Asian countries extend their advantage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[112,174,130,194,195,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-currentrecent-events","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-popular-culture","category-visual-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-22U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7875,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}