Unemployed Chinese youth say they "miss the Cultural Revolution"
Chinese authorities are on edge as nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution and 'Overthrow the Qing, Restore the Ming' discourse trend among young people suffering from high unemployment and economic stagnation.
Movies depicting life in the 1970s during the Cultural Revolution are going viral on social media.
A trend of rejecting the Qing Dynasty and idealizing the Ming Dynasty.
It sounds bizarre, but the general vibe is that since the job market is so trashed, they're using these historical metaphors to low-key shade the current leadership.
"Netizens suspect the youth don't actually want to farm in the 70s, but are just so fed up with the current economy that they want to 'reset' the whole system by any means necessary."
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