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What is distinctive about the jianghu imaginary that has emerged in today’s China, I suggest, is first, that it sees the interpersonal relationships that constitute and constrain people as being densely entangled with the formal roles and powers that their professional positions invest in them. Second, it sees these relationships, roles, and powers being constantly mobilized by people as a means of pursuing the aspirational ideas that they have about the kind of social, economic, and cultural figures they want to become. These particular features of the contemporary jianghu imaginary are an outgrowth of the way that China’s post-Mao marketization processes have drawn together people’s formal organizational roles, informal relationships, and endeavors to construct new lives and identities for themselves.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
My father once told me that the three topics people are the most irrational about are religion, politics, and nutrition. While you may or may not agree with this, these topics have two things in common that favor misinformation: They relate strongly to our identities, and they’re hard to get definitive answers about.
Read This, Not That: The Hidden Cost of Nutrition Misinformation—Asterisk
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I use the term __“efficacy” to describe the quality or virtue that the Politics journalists took to be the mark of a good and worthy journalist in these circumstances—that is, the ability to handle one’s news assignments in a way that effectively achieved the ends and outcomes that needed to be achieved in order for one’s newsmaking project to continue.__ I examine three reportorial skills that the Politics journalists cultivated to make themselves more efficacious newsmakers. These are, first, the ability to identify __“doable”__ (keyi zuo de) news items, topics that are likely to result in publishable articles; second, the ability to approach the news reporting process __“as a game”__; and, third, the ability to bend the rules of the news reporting process to make one’s assignments __easier to complete__.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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