Pack my past up in the back, oh, let my future take a hold No more red light for me, baby, only green, I gotta go ‘Ain’t no more actin’, man that forecast say I should just let me grow As LGBTQ Pride 2019 drew to a close, he encouraged his online followers to listen to the lyrics of his song ‘C7osure’ carefully: At the height of that initial burst of fame, Lil Nas ‘came out’ as gay. Lil Nas X (Montero Lamar Hill, 1999-) became a TikTok sensation in early 2019 with the release of ‘Old Town Road’, a country rap song. It, too, is a celebration of freedom (as well as in-your-face individuality, commercialism and bravado). This chapter in ‘Viral Alarm’ features ‘Holiday’, a song by Lil Nas X released in mid November 2020, which is also a single on his debut album.
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‘Freedom is not something that anybody can be given freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.’ To them we are nay-sayers and to readers who appreciate our efforts, we champion the sentiments of James Baldwin:
Power-holders elsewhere, be they active in politics, the media, or the economic, cultural, online, academic and social realms, share similar aspirations. The Chinese language is littered with the numbered slogans and exhortations imposed on the people, be they devised by the Nationalists or the Communists.’ ‘Over the last century China’s power-holders have been tireless in their efforts to order life according to mutating political priorities and by enumerating and imposing social and ethical norms. In ‘On Heritage 遺’, an essay outlining the rationale behind China Heritage published in December 2016, we noted that: While delving into what Jianying Zha calls ‘China’s heart of darkness’, New Sinology appreciates its own clashing traditions.
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In February 2020, Professor Xu Zhangrun released ‘Viral Alarm - When Fury Overcomes Fear’, and we have taken ‘Viral Alarm’ as the theme of the 2020 China Heritage Annual. a series of essays, translations and meditations.įor fifteen years we have advocated New Sinology 後漢學, or the study of the Chinese world that embraces the full range of vital and engaging traditions while encouraging a canny embracing of the ebullient reality of the everyday.