A Beautiful Essay Critiquing the “Fake Lives” of Beijingers Is Blocked after Lighting up Chinese Social Media (Quartz)

An online essay titled “Beijing Has 20 Million People Pretending to Have a Life Here” (“北京,有2000万人假装在生活,” full English translation here) by Chinese writer and blogger Zhang Wumao (张五毛) became a viral hit on WeChat and Weibo after it was published on the author’s WeChat account on July 23.

MediaQuartzTopicChinese Social MediaYear2017Linkqz.com