Evidence at another scale.
Two numbered empirical papers with methods, limits and reproducibility paths attached.
WRITING · ESSAYS AND ARGUMENTS
Arguments begin
with evidence.
Long-form writing on prices, platforms, policy and the routines through which economic change becomes visible. Every essay names its lens and its evidence; dates come from each page's own record.
14 essays · View / Frame / Observe · research with methods attached
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01 / PUBLISHED ESSAYS
SELECTED · ISSUE 01
The Curator's Curse
How China's boutique economy turned taste, credentials and bad service into a public status test — and why consumers rejected it.
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- 察Observe Capability Laundering The model name on screen is no longer proof of who did the thinking.
- 框Frame China, in More Than One Number One economy, several measurements, different directions.
- 视View The Curator's Curse The title became a product. Then the product became a joke.
- 视View The Water Is Rising, and Nobody Will Tell You Why The meetings are private. The pattern is not.
- 视View The People’s Republic of AI The contract came before the conference.
- 框Frame “Fits Honor” Is Now a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen A compatibility label becomes a court summons.
- 框Frame China’s Instagram Meets the World Cup A lifestyle platform buys the loudest tournament on earth.
- 察Observe China’s Tourism Assembly Line A queue forms at every station.
- 视View When AI goes silent: real-time censorship infrastructure AI silence became infrastructure.
- 视View What your latte tells you about China's price illusion The price anchor has moved.
- 框Frame How platforms quietly redesign consumer choice The platform turns desire into evidence.
- 察Observe How a goose-leg story shook an official narrative A street-food myth loses its campus filter.
- 察Observe The ordinary life behind RMB 9.9 coffee Cheap coffee is a new social scene.
- 察Observe Under the cyber audit: after the influencer boom Viral desire enters the proof economy.
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China in more than one number.
02 / DATA DESK
DATA / CHINA
China in more than one number.
Growth, households, employment, property and fiscal pressure arranged for source-led comparison.
Open the data →Research, image, city.
03 / OTHER PATHS
A frame to keep.
Editorial city editions with a writable back.
Enter the city.
Moving image, photography, literature and close observation arranged as memory.