Vistopia
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The Vistopia Moment
About the past, attentive to the present, and facing the future
Ongoing
Audio in Chinese
Liu Ruilin: Through the Next Five and Ten Years, Let Us Keep Walking Together Yang Zhao: I Have Always Believed That Irrationality and Injustice Cannot Last Wang Jisi: In an Uncertain Age, Be an “Ordinary Good Person” Cheng Qing: I Can Only Admire Those Who Pursue Even as They Weep Duan Zhiqiang: A Political Dissident's Secret Journey Three Hundred Years Ago Ju Baiyu: Return to Your Own Place and Make Waves Yang Rui: Even Falling from a Cliff Does Not Mean Everything Is Over Liang Jie: Study Hard and Enjoy Life While You Can Liu Hailong: Have We Lost the Ability to Imagine a Better Future? Ouyang Ting: When the Smog Comes, Wait for Clear Skies and a Birdcall Zhai Zhiyong: Why Make Today Painful for the Sake of a Future Goal? Li Jingfei: Life Is Not a Screenplay, and It Is Not a Hero's Journey Wang Xing: I Still Believe Effort Has Value Jiang Song: People Are Autumn Leaves, Tossed Up and Down by Their Times Hongzhou: Bend Like Bamboo without Breaking Shen Yuan: I Once Thought of Ending It All Li Ruyi: How Many People Still Believe in the Idea of a “Sage”? Wang Qing: Record Real People in the Current of History—“Do Not Surrender to Despair” Pang Ying × Zhan Qingyun: Watch the Tide of the Times with Curiosity—Where It Comes From and Where It Goes Do You Think Humanity Can Still Be Saved? | Voices of the Idealists We All Contend with Our Time, but Fortunately We Travel Together | Editor's Note 1. Why Does Eileen Gu's Nationality Matter So Much? Has Patriotism Existed “Since Ancient Times”? 2. Why Did the Incident of “Teaching a Girl the Rules” on a Plane Make Us So Uncomfortable? 3. Black Myth: Wukong Is a Sensation—but Has Chinese Gaming Been Vindicated? | Liu Mengfei, Part I 4. Is Wukong a Tragic Hero? Are Games Compensation for Reality or an Escape? | Liu Mengfei, Part II 5. How Do We Face the Death of a Young Friend? What Account Do We Owe Life? 6. How Should We Understand the Killing of a Japanese Schoolboy in Shenzhen? The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind 7. Understanding the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics—and Our Misconceptions about Economics 8. Why Did Sha Bai's Assisted Death in Switzerland Cause Controversy? Dignity and Quality of Life 9. The Unseen Sister: Why Are Women Always Made to Compete? 10. As Public Idols Depart and Hostility Spreads, How Should We Live? 11. Has Technological Progress Made Our Lives More Fragile? 12. Why Has Speaking to One Another Become So Difficult? 13. The South Korean President's Brief Martial Law: Farce or Crisis? 14. A Year of Repeated Violent Incidents: How Can We Understand and Prevent Them? 15. The Moments We Shared in 2024 | Vistopia Editors in Conversation 16. From Wu Liufang to Shao Yihui: Why Do Women Attack and Scrutinize One Another? 17. TikTok “Refugees” Flood RedNote: A Fleeting Internet Utopia? 18. What Makes a Home? A City without Hope and a Hometown Where You No Longer Belong 19. Disputes over Centralized Drug Procurement: Should We Have More Choice When Life Is at Stake? 20. Social Security Is Only a Floor: Can Work Retain Dignity in the Platform Age? 21. Zelenskyy's White House Visit: Does the Plight of a Small Country Signal the Collapse of International Order? 22. In the Age of Runaway AI, Why Are We More Exhausted as Technology Advances? 23. The Tariff Storm: Why Can Trump Act with Such Impunity? 24. Turbulent Adolescence: Who Is Creating a “Fragile” Next Generation? 25. Did the Trump Administration Break the Law by Barring Harvard from Enrolling International Students? 26. Patriarchy, Dad Energy, Old Men… How Do We Face Fathers in a New Vocabulary? 27. Questions for Zhou Yijun: Who Has Taken Peace Hostage? Power Struggles and Civilian Suffering in the Middle East 28. Is Caring for Family an Endless, Unconditional Sacrifice? 29. How Did America Come to This? Expanding Presidential Power, Social Division, and Belated Checks 30. From Sexual Harassment to “Damaging National Dignity”: Who Owns a Woman's Body? 31. We Know Society Has Problems—What Can We Do? 32. Why Is Work Becoming More Painful? 33. No Graduation Photos, No Farewell Dinner: What Is a New Generation Resisting? 34. Remembering Hsu Cho-yun: Does Every Generation Have Its Own Historical Task? 35. When Buddhism Is No Longer “Pure”: What Is Happening to Temples Today? 36. From Nobody to Journey to the West: Choose the Roast Chicken or the “True Scriptures”? 37. Eighty Years after Victory over Fascism: Is the History of Imperialism Still Unfinished? 38. Why Do We Still Talk about the “Cold War” Today? 39. From White-Collar Worker to Laborer to Beast of Burden: Self-Denigration or Progress? Yang Zhao: Find the One Thing You Must Finish Even If the World Turns Upside Down Jing Jun: The Times Are Changing—but Are We Ready? Berlin: Searching for a “Third Way” in an Age That Forces Us to Take Sides Cheng Qing: “Turning Inward” Is a Major Misunderstanding of Buddhism Lao Dongyan: Legal Education Is about More Than “Following the Rules” Duan Zhiqiang: I Especially Dislike “There Is Nothing New under the Sun” Yuan Changgeng: Entering Public Debate Means Being Ready for Close Combat Alexwood: Sometimes the Only Thing Trapping Us Is “Fear” 40. From Venezuela to Iran: What Consequences Is the United States Making the World Bear? Zhang Yiwei: Human Pain Remains beneath AI's Smooth Answers 41. From “Mourning the Ming” to Peaceful Years: How Should History Be Discussed? 42. In Less Than a Century, Where Did Our Public Life Go? 43. From the Folk-Song Movement to Singer: Why Has Chinese-Language Music Become Less Interesting?