{"id":644,"date":"2010-03-02T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2010-03-02T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:34:11","slug":"contract-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Caution, Contract!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had lunch with my high spirited translators Mu and Carol. I moved on from\u00a0fried duck and crispy duck skin to duck tongue preserved in egg-shaped jello. The\u00a0jello-eggs \u00a0looked very beautiful but the tongue inside tasted a bit bony, even though my friends\u00a0called it very\u00a0“smooth.”\u00a0 I started my interviews and noticed that people are very cautious\u00a0about\u00a0my topics.\u00a0 Dr. Li Yinhe answered my questions with short answers and reassured me that “there is no actual danger involved” in talking about sex and pornography in China.\u00a0 But still I feel shadowed by a darker spirit–severity, seriousness\u00a0and disconnect–when walking and talking about such topics. I have the\u00a0feeling that 99% of what I care about is located\u00a0elsewhere and \u00a0“underground.”\u00a0\u00a0In the evening I talked to three cosplayers about their adoption of Japanese animation characters and gneder roles. They\u00a0babbled and giggled a lot but also demanded money and brought along their\u00a0own contracts. This had never happened to me in my long history of interviewing people.\u00a0 It made me sad to meet this level of\u00a0suspicion or absurd self-imposed bureaucracy. Tomorrow I will be interviewing about 15 university students and wonder how we will relate.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 I had lunch with my high spirited translators Mu and Carol. I moved on from\u00a0fried duck and crispy duck skin to duck tongue preserved in egg-shaped jello. The\u00a0jello-eggs \u00a0looked very beautiful but the tongue inside tasted a bit bony, even though my friends\u00a0called it very\u00a0“smooth.”\u00a0 I started my interviews and noticed that people are… Continue reading Caution, Contract!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,17],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-proceedings","tag-activism","tag-beijing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}