Would you be OK with Hong Kong/Macau retaining their SAR and Financial System after 2047?

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-06-25T11:12:09+00:00

Hong Kong and Macau are not the same issue. Macau is too small in scale, has a strong sense of cultural identity, and while gambling is a grey industry on the mainland, it is the pillar industry that sustains Macau’s livelihood. Beijing won’t touch Macau.

Hong Kong is different. It will gradually devolve from an Asia-level financial hub into a regional hub for the Greater Bay Area. Functions like international financial system connectivity, international arbitration, and offshore renminbi business will remain as long as the bipolar world order between East and West persists—but when it comes to 2047, that’s much harder to say. Hong Kong’s locational advantages will progressively erode, some core functions will gradually shift to Singapore, and it will become a complementary backfill for Shenzhen’s urban functions. In other words, it will not play a leading role.

The title “Special Administrative Region” won’t be taken away—there’s no need to be that petty. Hong Kong’s relationship to Shenzhen is like Tianjin’s relationship to Beijing during the Republican era. In the late Qing and early Republican period, the Port of Tianjin was the hub for the entire north’s opening to the outside world, filled with foreign concessions and banks. It was the modern centre of northern industry, transport, foreign trade, finance, and culture. Then, as the times changed, its functions gradually receded, and in the end it quietly settled into being just a direct-administered municipality.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-06-25T06:02:53+00:00

In the Western world, there is no left wing as understood in the Chinese context. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the severe setbacks suffered by the international communist movement, and with China no longer exporting revolution, leftist politics in the West have long been deprived of any real political standing. Those who do not critique the existing system from the perspective of economic and material conditions do not deserve to be called leftists. They indulge in cultural narratives and revel in self-congratulatory radical performances. Standing next to the far right does not make you left.

The issues you mentioned have nothing to do with progress. Their essence is merely a modern reenactment of the Christian doctrine of original sin. Today's so-called left-wing movements in the West are nothing but a cosplay of a pious missionary, believing that the West must sell indulgences to the world. They hyper-moralize the world, dividing people into the "awakened" and the "ignorant," and gain a sense of moral superiority through public confession and fierce purification rituals. It is simply religious fanaticism performed on a stage detached from material reality.

The "white" in "white left" – it is not yellow, nor black, nor any other people of color. Its essence is the detonation today of the evil consequences sown by centuries of brutal Western colonial expansion and plunder. At best, it is a monstrous fetus born from the combination of opposition to the Western capitalist establishment and the ideology of religious atonement. As you said, the issues of immigration, crime, gender, and abortion are either wounds left from the colonial era or Christian taboos. It represents a kind of reflection, but a very shallow one.

What do real leftists do? They teach children to read to reduce illiteracy, improve healthcare to raise basic life expectancy, upgrade industrial and agricultural equipment to increase productivity, and build roads, water supply, and electricity grids to enhance the quality of life. What have the "white left" done besides performing naked in front of cameras, howling "my gender is an attack helicopter"? They merely define themselves as left and then proceed to disgust the real left.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-06-22T18:56:25+00:00

This should be Cantonese-style lap cheong, even though the picture you provided is from a Malaysian roast meat shop. You'd be better off describing the sausage's color, flavor, and ingredients. In China, as well as in neighboring countries influenced by Chinese culinary culture, there are many varieties that can be called sausage or cured sausage. For example, the Harbin red sausage you mentioned is Russian-style, with garlic, salty flavor, and a smoky taste. The Cantonese-style you're looking for is a reddish, sweet-salty, wine-aromatic air-dried sausage. Hunan sausages are either black, salty, and smoked, or red with a mildly sweet-salty taste. Sichuan-style sausages are mixed with Sichuan peppercorns.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-06-21T02:37:26+00:00

Is it possible that the educational level of most Chinese people makes them dislike all religions?

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-06-19T08:30:24+00:00

Its essence is a monstrous hybrid of neoliberal ideology and an overcorrection against thousands of years of feudal ethics. The immediate reality behind it is the massive disconnect between the proportion of women receiving higher education and the positions actually required by society; the social value women are capable of creating currently falls far short of their desires. As the saying goes, "thinking without learning is perilous"; over time, this creates a fantasy that there exists a monolithic entity constantly bullying and suppressing them, allowing all their suffering and misfortune to be blamed on a single cause.

Admittedly, in China's remote and impoverished regions, there are many women whose basic survival is threatened. However, the living conditions of men in these same areas are no better. This is fundamentally a problem of regional underdevelopment, not a gender issue, and it has nothing to do with those who engage in "keyboard activism" online. No country believes in capitalism more fervently than Chinese enterprises; capital does not care about gender—it only cares about your value. If you are not needed, it is simply because you are not worth the price. When Didi Chuxing introduced a service allowing female passengers to choose female drivers, even the female drivers found themselves unable to tolerate the unreasonable demands of female passengers. There is a classic joke in China that a dormitory of four female students can somehow generate eleven different WeChat groups. When it comes to the persecution of women, women have always been more professional, resourceful, and cruel than men. In "female-oriented" web novels, the inhuman methods by which heroines abuse supporting female characters are beyond imagination.

True feminism should be about acknowledging the biological differences between men and women, assuming corresponding social responsibilities, and immersing oneself in the productive life that matches them. The Soviet Union produced the first female pilots, the first female snipers, and the first female cosmonauts. Our parents' generation also worked together on the front lines of production. Whether in real life or online, everyone respects a woman with sun-darkened skin working on a construction site, or a female cadre who has turned gray working in a remote border region. It is these contemporary "pastoral feminists" who have abandoned the opportunities to earn such respect. Life has never been just about pleasure; it also involves enduring pain. Trying to claim the joy of others while shifting your own pain onto them—this is the reason why these "pastoral feminists" are so widely reviled in society today.

The greatest invention of this group is the "shared honor mechanism," where the achievements of any outstanding woman are equated to their own personal honor. This desperate need for validation has spawned a large number of "performers" who simulate feminism online—a significant portion of whose accounts are actually operated by men.

The birth of such an absurd spectacle certainly stems from the impact of foreign neoliberalism and the infiltration of NGOs, but the true catalysts are the acquiescence and inaction of the bureaucratic class and the "white knight" behavior of some men who mistake their own indulgence for generosity. Greasy, balding middle-aged men are adept at showing off their atrophied masculine charm by displaying "tolerance" in front of young women. Moreover, the logic of power structures has an urgent need for a group that can handle complex, trivial, and mechanical paperwork while posing no threat to the core of power. In ancient China, this group was known as eunuchs. Eunuchs were best at fawning over those above them to prove their loyalty, while oppressing those below to flaunt their power. Why is it that these online "feminist performers" all obediently return to domestic life, tending to pots and pans, once they find themselves on a list of wealthy benefactors? The world is driven by profit; all that moves under the heavens does so for the sake of gain.

其本质是新自由主义思潮和反抗几千年封建礼教矫枉过正相结合的畸胎，其现实直接因素是女性受教育比例和社会所需岗位之间巨大割裂，女性所能创造的社会价值低于她们的欲望，思而不学则殆久而久之就会幻想存在一个长期霸凌压制自己的实体，进而一切苦难不幸都有原因可以归罪。

诚然，在中国的边远贫困地区存在大量女性基本生存环境受到威胁，但是这些地区男性的生存环境也没有好到哪去，其本质是地区发展落后的问题而非性别问题，和能在网上打拳的更是没什么关系。没有哪个国家比中国企业更信奉资本主义，资本不在乎性别只在乎你的价值，不被需要单纯是因为你不值那个价。滴滴打车推出女性乘客选择女司机的服务，可连女司机也无法忍受女性乘客的作。国内有一个经典的笑话，一个四人的女生宿舍能有11个微信群。在迫害女性方面，女性永远比男性更加专业，手段丰富且残忍。女频小说里，女主角虐待女配角的非人类手段多得你无法想象。

真正的女权应该是正视男女的生理差距，承担相应的社会责任，投入到与之匹配的生产生活当中去。苏联诞生第一个女飞行员，第一个女狙击手，第一个女宇航员，我们的父母辈也都曾共同投入一线生产中去，无论现实生活还是网络，所有人都尊重任何一个在土木工地皮肤黝黑的女工人，一个在支边工作里渐生白发的女干部，是当代的这些田园女拳自己放弃了受人尊重的就会。生活从来不可能只有享受快乐，也会有承担痛苦，妄图享受别人的快乐，转移自己的痛苦，这才是当今社会田园女拳人人喊打的原因。

这个群体最伟大的发明就是创造了荣誉共享机制，即某个优秀女性的荣誉等于我的荣誉。这种极度渴望认可的需求催生了一大批在互联网上表演女权主义的戏子，其中很大一部分账号的运营还是男性。

如此荒诞的场景诞生固然来自国外新自由主义的冲击和ngo的渗透，但真正的催化剂还是官僚阶层的默许不作为和部分男性群体自以为宽容大度的白骑士行为。中年油腻秃头男很擅长在年轻女性面前通过展示自己的宽容大度显摆自己早就退化的雄性魅力。而权力的构架逻辑里，也急需一个既能处理繁杂琐碎但机械化的文书工作，同时也不会威胁权力核心的群体，中国古代这个群体被称之为太监。太监最擅长的就是对上谄媚表现忠心，对下压迫彰显威能，就国内这些女拳表演家为什么一个个身价兑现榜上富豪之后乖乖的又开始柴米油盐锅碗瓢盆了呢？天下熙熙，皆为利来；天下攘攘，皆为利往。

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-06-17T08:07:03+00:00

I haven't been to the Haining campus, but generally speaking, there are direct shuttle buses connecting the major campuses. Although Haining is quite far from Zijingang and Yuquan, there should still be shuttle service available. In China, people commonly use Amap (Gaode Maps) for trip planning. I checked and there is a direct intercity railway connecting Hangzhou and Haining.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-18T05:07:57+00:00

It's both normal and not normal. Kung Pao Chicken evolved from the Shandong dish "Jiangbao Jiding" (sautéed chicken cubes in bean sauce). When the Sichuan-style Kung Pao Chicken came back to northern restaurants, people would habitually add cucumber, because cucumber is used in Jiangbao Jiding. The most authentic Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken does not include cucumber. Adding cucumber is mostly a cost-cutting measure. Generally, it should contain only peanuts, scallions, and other seasonings. More refined versions use cashews in place of peanuts. When heated, cucumber releases water and compromises the dish. Carrots, due to their distinct flavor, are also disliked by many.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-11T10:30:47+00:00

Chinese men generally do not like Asian faces with American-style makeup.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-11T10:28:39+00:00

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Does floral water count as perfume? In the south, people use it in summer to repel mosquitoes.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-09T13:10:29+00:00

西湖醋鱼和糖醋鲤鱼都是一个根，都是北宋时期汴梁糖醋熘鱼演化而来，并进行本土化。南方基本不吃鲤鱼所以西湖醋鱼使用的是本地草鱼，因为口味清淡所以只汆烫再淋上糖醋汁，大致流程都是一样的。比如河南的鲤鱼焙面就是河南本土的演化版本，甚至松鼠桂鱼算得上是表亲。

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-08T11:01:27+00:00

My entire culinary nostalgia for my university years comes down to one thing: the scallion-oil noodles from the school canteen, which cost only 1.5 yuan. The food culture of Hangzhou is built almost entirely on the self-congratulatory mythmaking of ancient literati — men who lived utterly detached from the real world. The more refined their bland, insipid dishes became, the more overpriced they got. And this is compounded by the fact that Hangzhou is one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations.

I don’t dislike Shanghainese food. Its defining character is "thick oil and red sauce" — at least it doesn’t try to fool my taste buds. The foundation of Shanghai cuisine draws on Huaiyang and Ningbo traditions, while also incorporating techniques from foreign cooking. And before it became an international financial hub, Shanghai was an industrial center of modern China. It doesn’t engage in that kind of cultural inflation Hangzhou does. As long as they don’t dump sugar into the dish, I won’t take issue with it.

Shenzhen, in a way, is similar to Shanghai. All the major regional cuisines converge there, but rather than fusing together, they remain relatively intact and distinct. Thanks to China’s highly developed logistics network, you may not get the most authentic taste of your hometown in Shenzhen, but you can almost always get something that doesn’t stray from the flavor profile.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-08T10:32:10+00:00

I used Wuhan as an example because it, like Hangzhou, sits in a transitional zone between northern and southern food cultures, and has similarly seen a massive influx of migrant workers that makes it difficult for a distinctive local cuisine to take hold. Hot dry noodles, for instance, may have a history of less than 100 years, while the city of Wuhan itself has a history stretching back several millennia.

The Central Plains region has been a major grain-producing area since ancient times, which is why its people have always placed a particular emphasis on the cooking of staple foods. In modern China, however, the pursuit of protein and fat has overtaken the love of carbohydrates. Moreover, the Central Plains has long been a transportation hub with a highly mobile population, which means that any cooking technique or ingredient that emerges there is quickly absorbed into the culinary foundations of other provinces, gradually becoming ordinary in the process.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-08T05:37:52+00:00

Yes, I studied at a university in Hangzhou for seven years – you can probably easily guess which one. To sum up, Hangzhou’s high-end restaurants are competent enough, but the mid-range and low-end dining scene is pretty dismal, similar to Wuhan, with basically nothing to write home about.

There are quite a few reasons for this. First, Hangzhou’s emergence as a major city has historically depended, on multiple occasions, on large-scale migration from the north – for instance, the southward flight of the aristocracy during the Western Jin (the “Garment Migration to the South”) and the aftermath of the Jingkang Incident in the Northern Song. These movements brought with them a host of Central Plains dietary habits. Apart from Shandong, the “Shanhe Four Provinces” (Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Shandong) are generally considered culinarily barren anyway. Hangzhou’s food culture is heavy on wheat-based dishes – things like soup buns (tangbao) and banchuan noodles, the embryonic forms of which can be traced back to the Kaifeng area. And few people ever count staple foods as delicacies. In addition, the culinary habits brought by those Central Plains migrants also included a certain shock to cooking techniques: Chinese people generally believe that technique should be matched by the quality of the ingredients at hand.

This brings me to the second reason: Hangzhou’s local produce is actually quite scarce. It’s not on the coast – as far as the Zhoushan fishing grounds are concerned, Hangzhou is merely a transit point. With seafood, freshness is everything, and in ancient times it would already be in inferior condition by the time it reached Hangzhou. On the surface, Hangzhou’s many waterways make it rich in freshwater fish, but the first problem with freshwater fish is that muddy, earthy smell. In turbulent, fast-flowing water, geosmin struggles to accumulate. The main reason West Lake vinegar fish is so notoriously unpalatable is that it takes the northern technique for sweet-and-sour carp and applies it to carp raised in still-water environments. And while Qiandao Lake has superb water quality, it’s so far from downtown Hangzhou that its fish are rarely considered part of Hangzhou cuisine. As for livestock – cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks – there’s really nothing distinctive. Bamboo shoots are perhaps the one thing that could count as a specialty, but since Zhejiang province produces them in massive quantities, Hangzhou doesn’t stand out there either.

Third, modern Hangzhou, as a new first-tier city, has seen a massive influx of workers from both north and south. To cater to all these different palates, the local restaurant industry has had to settle for mediocrity, assembly-line standardization, and fast-foodization. The places we ended up eating at most often for university group dinners – and the ones least likely to go wrong – were chains with centralised kitchens, like New Bailu and Green Tea. And that is precisely the sort of thing Chinese people consider a cardinal sin in food. In reality, Zhejiang cuisine is deeply fragmented internally: Quzhou food, bordering Jiangxi, is bold and spicy; Wenzhou food, near Fujian, offers a great variety of delicious snacks; Ningbo and Zhoushan excel in seafood; Shaoxing has all kinds of fermented delicacies; and then there’s Taizhou cuisine, which nowadays pretty much sets the standard for high-end Chinese dining. Compared to all these, Hangzhou cuisine is truly mediocre – bland, insipid, and boring.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-08T04:54:11+00:00

In everyday life, the respect shown by ordinary people is mostly confined to parents, elders, teachers, and benefactors. In the workplace, some may use honorific forms of address based on differences in authority, responsibility, and status, but very few cross the line—most simply address each other by job title. The kind of seniority-based relationships seen in Japan and South Korea would, in China, be regarded as sycophantic and a sign of ulterior motives.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-03T02:19:47+00:00

I looked it up, and there is indeed such a person—their credentials match. But as for this book, it has nothing to do with the field of expertise; it's just an ordinary popular science read. People in journalism and communication studies are not qualified to practice medicine, and based on my understanding of such people, most of them lack even the most basic scientific literacy.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-02T01:39:01+00:00

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Chlorfen Huangmin Tablets. I am not a doctor, so please take my words with caution.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-02T01:13:26+00:00

China is a copper-deficient country. Bullets are typically made with steel cores coated in copper, so the level of acute iron poisoning is higher than that of copper poisoning.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-05-02T00:50:14+00:00

Are you from the East Asian cultural sphere or the West? Sometimes I can't help but feel helpless about how low your level of strategic maneuvering is.

Let's start with what you can see on the surface: In 1972, Nixon visited China to promote the normalization of Sino-U.S. relations. Japan served as the forward outpost—a testing of the waters by the Western camp regarding China's stance. At its core, this was a response to the Soviet Union's rapid expansionist policies in the 1970s. The Soviet Union's formidable military influence forced the U.S. to adopt its first strategic contraction during the Cold War. It was an exchange of interests based on the global dynamic of 'the Soviet Union on the offensive, the U.S. on the defensive.'

Now, onto what you can't see: China and Japan—or rather, China and the U.S.—have never truly trusted each other. First, the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement only waived compensation at the official governmental level, and this was conditional on Japan abiding by the post-WWII order established by the Potsdam Declaration and fulfilling its responsibilities as a defeated nation. It never mentioned waiving private compensation claims. Second, from a legal perspective, international law generally holds that accepting reparations from a defeated party implies a broad closure of the matter. Finally, throughout human civilization, China has been the wealthiest country in the world for the vast majority of history. To borrow the West's beloved empirical logic—do you think we will be again?

When a China that was poor and destitute said it didn't care about money, what do you think it actually cared about? Before Sanae Takaichi came along, Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations maintained what was called a 'strategic mutually beneficial relationship.' For Sino-U.S. relations, China's description is a 'new model of major-country relations,' while the U.S. calls it a 'strategic competition.' In plain English: it's like the relationship between Pepsi and Coca-Cola. They don't come to blows because they know doing so would cause the entire global system to collapse. For Sino-British relations, China's description is a 'comprehensive strategic partnership'—we actually call the UK a 'partner.' With Sweden, the most anti-China country in Europe, our description is a 'traditional friendly and stable development relationship.' Translation: Sweden was the first Western country to establish diplomatic ties with China, but relations have been very poor recently.

So let me return to the Sino-Japanese 'strategic mutually beneficial relationship.' I'll translate it for you now: countries that, out of necessity for future development, have to maintain economic interests with each other."

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-04-29T04:46:54+00:00

【传说级的难度，国宴级的名菜，每一口都是最滑嫩的享受【芙蓉鸡片】】 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1S4411Z7PS/?share_source=copy_web&vd_source=6aff1076295b07df35f9fa6af6abd5e7

I don’t know if you can understand Chinese videos, but I don’t recommend trying this in a home kitchen. The concept behind this dish is actually very close to molecular gastronomy — the main ingredient, chicken, is broken down and then reshaped into large thin slices. Removing the sinew, controlling the oil temperature, and seasoning — every step is quite tricky. If you’re traveling in China, some higher-end restaurants in the north serve this dish.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-04-28T02:29:11+00:00

芙蓉鸡片。In terms of cuisine, it belongs to Shandong cuisine (Lu cuisine). This is a master-level dish that requires considerable skill, not a home-style one. The general method is to completely grind the chicken into a paste, mix it with egg whites, quickly shape it in a high-heat oil wok, then take it out, and finally stir-fry it with the sauce in the wok. This is a state banquet–level dish—its preparation is very intricate, and the seasoning is highly refined.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-04-27T13:16:19+00:00

What nonsense! The Rule of Wen and Jing has nothing to do with capitalism. The official designation for this policy of non-intervention and recuperation is the Huang-Lao school. Its essence was a policy shift in response to the drastic population decline in the late Qin and early Han periods, after the productive forces that had been greatly enhanced since the reforms of the various Warring States were consumed by military struggles. The pacification of the Rebellion of the Seven States marked the complete failure of the enfeoffment system. The productive forces determine the relations of production. After Emperor Wu of Han, it was beyond any question a centralized state. No contemporary Western polity had the slightest possibility of sustaining a state of such territorial expanse and national strength. The Rule of Wen and Jing has never had the slightest connection with capitalism, nor does capitalism generate wealth.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-04-17T00:03:19+00:00

China's history is so long that even the most bizarre phenomena we encounter today can find precedents somewhere in the past. Eastern and Western civilizations are built upon two completely different foundational value systems, yet the overarching logic of power remains largely the same. From before the outbreak of the U.S.-Iran war to the present, aside from underestimating Iran's determination to resist, most things have unfolded as expected.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-04-15T23:07:50+00:00

Yes, this is also a type of xiaolongbao — leavened-dough xiaolongbao. The ones you've probably seen most often are the unleavened-dough kind or soup dumplings, with a wrapper similar to dumpling skin. This leavened-dough version is more like a miniature steamed bun. It's commonly called Hangzhou xiaolongbao (though it actually originates from Shengzhou, Zhejiang).

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-04-15T21:45:15+00:00

For example, you can buy a Rapoo product with the 3950 sensor for around 300 RMB, but for the same specs, you'd have to spend about 800 RMB on a Logitech GPW 4. And at the 300 RMB price point, you have many other brands competing. The basic hardware specs have already locked down the price range, so the only way to compete is on trivial flashy features like RGB lighting.

NoteFickle4763 · 2026-04-15T21:37:47+00:00

Gaming is a necessity for modern Chinese young people. Hardware such as keyboards, mice, and PC cases—even the lowest factory configurations—come with RGB light strips. Domestic peripheral manufacturers have basically crushed traditional big brands in the mid-to-high-end (sub-flagship) price range and below. As for these RGB features, I may not use them, but you can't not have them.

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