{"id":68469,"date":"2024-12-24T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T01:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/24\/what-is-neijuan-china-viral-buzzword-laptop-bicycle"},"modified":"2024-12-24T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T01:57:31","slug":"what-is-neijuan-and-why-is-china-worried-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68469","title":{"rendered":"What is neijuan, and why is China worried about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The buzzword \u2013 which went viral after a student was filmed working on his laptop while riding his bicycle \u2013 reflects a mix of competitiveness and hopelessness amid China\u2019s slowing economy<\/p>\n<p>On the Chinese internet, the country\u2019s current predicament \u2013 slowing economic growth, a falling birthrate, a meagre social safety net, increasing isolation on the world stage \u2013 is often expressed through buzzwords. There is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/05\/the-low-desire-life-why-people-in-china-are-rejecting-high-pressure-jobs-in-favour-of-lying-flat\">tangping<\/a>, <\/em>or \u201clying flat\u201d, a term used to describe the young generation of Chinese who are choosing to chill out rather than hustle in China\u2019s high-pressure economy. There is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/20\/run-philosophy-the-chinese-citizens-seeking-to-leave-amid-covid-uncertainty\">runxue<\/a>, <\/em>or \u201crun philosophy\u201d, which refers to the determination of large numbers of people to emigrate. Recently, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/22\/china-deals-with-violence-amid-revenge-against-society-attacks\">revenge against society<\/a>\u201d attacks \u2013 random incidents of violence that have claimed dozens of lives \u2013 have sparked particular concern. And there is also <em>neijuan, <\/em>or \u201cinvolution\u201d, a term used to describe the feeling of diminishing returns in China\u2019s social contract.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/24\/what-is-neijuan-china-viral-buzzword-laptop-bicycle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buzzword \u2013 which went viral after a student was filmed working on his laptop while riding his bicycle \u2013 reflects a mix of competitiveness and hopelessness amid China\u2019s slowing economyOn the Chinese internet, the country\u2019s current predicament \u2013 slow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68470,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469\/revisions\/68470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}