Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · Apr 23 The book has a much better understanding of "involution" than the business-focused angle I usually see. It's not just about Chinese companies competing against each other to the death, it's about students and workers feeling like trash and trapped in a status race.
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Though this was happening worldwide, Yi-Ling Liu argues it was worse in China because subversive subcultures had been crushed by the 2010s. There were few outlets – people just sunk into depression. (I wonder whether this is why jubensha ended up so popular in China, as one of the few outlets)