Are online celebrity products really worth buying?

According to incomplete statistics, there are currently more than 6,000 "online celebrity Live" practitioners in Yiwu, Zhejiang, involving more than 3,000 market operators. The picture shows that in a clothing store in Beixiazhu Village, Yiwu City, anchor online celebrity is broadcasting live. Photo by Gong Xianming (People's Vision)

  According to incomplete statistics, there are currently more than 6,000 "online celebrity Live" practitioners in Yiwu, Zhejiang, involving more than 3,000 market operators. The picture shows that in a clothing store in Beixiazhu Village, Yiwu City, anchor online celebrity is broadcasting live. Photo by Gong Xianming (People’s Vision)

Screenshot recommended for the homepage of an APP on a grass planting platform in online celebrity.

Guo Dexinzuo (Xinhua News Agency)

  "All girls!" "Too cheap!" "Grab it! Grab it! Grab it! " On October 21st, just a few hours before the first day of the pre-sale of Tmall double 11, Li Jiaqi, the first brother of lipstick, brought 30 million viewers in the webcast room into the atmosphere of "double 11" shopping spree in advance. That night, Li Jiaqi reached the top of the Taobao live broadcast anchor list, and the sales of 10,000 lipsticks in Zhong Chao were amazing. More brands have sold more than 100 million yuan in 6 minutes in the live broadcast.

  A similar legend of online celebrity’s goods delivery is staged on the e-commerce live broadcast platform every day. Correspondingly, on various social networking platforms, online celebrity products are recommended in a dazzling array. online celebrity, who has a large number of fans, recommended various online celebrity products to fans through illustrated notes on "planting grass", vivid videos on "planting grass" or live broadcast. Words such as "pro-test is easy to use", "must-buy list" and "online celebrity explosion" have stirred up the consumption desire of social platform users.

  In August this year, Xiaohongshu APP (mobile phone software) was removed from the shelves of major application malls. The official said that it would start a comprehensive investigation and rectification of the content in the station, conduct in-depth self-examination and self-correction, actively cooperate with relevant departments, and promote the optimization and upgrading of the Internet environment. Xiaohongshu, which has over 200 million users and advocates young lifestyle sharing, has become one of the most representative social platforms of "planting grass with goods". The development of Xiaohongshu is also the epitome of the whole online celebrity market with goods. While online celebrity, with goods, gathers huge traffic and drives huge sales, the uneven online celebrity products gradually expose the industry chaos behind the "sales miracle".

  influencer marketing

  Fans of professional online celebrity realized.

  Who is the top online celebrity that is now all over the network? The answer to this question will be updated every once in a while.

  In recent 20 years, the development of online celebrity has experienced a rapid iteration from 1.0 era to 4.0 era. Nowadays, online celebrity is gradually becoming a specialized profession, and online celebrity’s management mode has also changed from individual creation to team and enterprise management. Publishing content on social networking platforms, accumulating fans, creating personal brand influence, and realizing the realization of fan traffic through commercial channels have become the way for many first-tier online celebrity to get rich.

  According to the White Paper on Eco-development of E-commerce in online celebrity in 2019 released by Crowley, in 2018, the number of netizens reached 829 million, and the number of online shopping users reached 610 million. On average, 73 out of every 100 netizens chose online shopping. Since 2015, the proportion of online retail sales of physical goods in the total retail sales of social consumer goods in China has soared from 8.04% to 18.4% in 2018. A huge number of online shopping users, huge online shopping demand and fast-growing online shopping market provide a fertile land for professional online celebrity.

  Online celebrity, a professional who is eager to realize the flow, is a loyal fan with spending power. "When the golden wind meets the dew," online celebrity brings goods as the times require.

  In the White Paper on Eco-development of E-commerce in online celebrity in 2019, online celebrity is defined as "online celebrity E-commerce", that is, content producers (network celebrities) with network influence recommend and sell products to users through content or e-commerce platforms. The main bodies of e-commerce in online celebrity include self-media, live anchors, stars, celebrities, shopkeepers, professionals and grassroots celebrities.

  With the deepening cooperation between e-commerce platform and online social platform, online celebrity’s goods delivery gradually moves towards the category of "social e-commerce". Online celebrity brings goods on social platforms and interacts with fans in e-commerce live broadcast, which is a common way to bring goods in online celebrity at present.

  According to the "2019 Taobao Live Ecological Development Trend Report" released by Taobao List and Taobao Live, the number of anchors who joined Taobao Live in 2018 increased by 180% year-on-year, and the Taobao Live Platform brought over 100 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of nearly 400%. There are more than 400 live broadcast rooms with a monthly delivery scale of more than 1 million.

  "online celebrity’s delivery of goods is essentially a new way of docking supply and demand: consumers and businesses are docked through online celebrity. These online celebrity attract fans to conduct business activities through their own characteristics and high-quality content." Wang Xintian, a lecturer at the Business School of Ningbo University, said in an interview that the essence of online celebrity’s economy is to rely on social platforms to promote, form a loyal fan base by gathering a lot of attention, and derive various consumer markets around online celebrity, and finally form an economic model with a complete industrial chain.

  According to relevant data, the main influencing factor of 83% young consumers’ purchase decision is the "online celebrity" and "Talent" sharing. On social media, it is normal for stars to bring goods, and fans are more willing to "plant grass" to buy products endorsed or recommended by stars.

  "The essence of online celebrity’s delivery is still a marketing method, which transforms the gathered fans into actual product consumers through socialization and entertainment." Liao Huaixue, a lawyer of Taihetai Law Firm, analyzed in an interview that in this "consumption transformation" mode, online celebrity with goods, as an assumed consumer, directly uses, explains and displays goods. Compared with the traditional one-way static dissemination of goods information by e-commerce, this mode can interact with consumers and narrow the distance between them. "As a new format of e-commerce development, online celebrity’s delivery of goods enriches consumers’ shopping methods and has great development potential, but at the same time, there are frequent chaos in the industry, and it is urgent to standardize governance."

  Grey secret

  There are many routines and chaos.

  The cat’s claw cup, the double yellow egg ice cream, and the exotic enzyme … … On the social platform of planting grass in online celebrity, you can find rich and detailed notes on "planting grass", whether it is cheap and easy to get daily snacks and good things in life, expensive and professional cosmetics and health products, or various international luxury brands.

  Online celebrity with goods has become an artificial identification filter for mass products, with personal reputation and word of mouth as the guarantee, recommending various goods worth buying for its fans. However, due to the uneven quality of online celebrity, the different screening mechanisms of e-commerce platforms and social platforms, and the lag in supervision of relevant institutions, there are various problems hidden behind the phenomenon of online celebrity bringing goods.

  Wei Wei, who works in a state-owned enterprise, is worried about losing weight recently. On a grass planting platform in online celebrity, Wei Wei planted a popular Japanese enzyme. Bloggers in online celebrity recommend this enzyme to decompose fat and sugar well and help to lose weight without affecting diet. After buying it and trying it twice, Wei Wei found that this enzyme is not as "fantastic" as bloggers said.

  "Let’s not talk about the effect of losing weight. Every time I eat enzymes, I start to feel chest tightness and nausea. This is also the case when I asked some friends around me. " Wei Wei said, "These products are under the banner of being beneficial to health, and many bloggers in online celebrity have personally experienced them. The recommendations seem particularly convincing, and hundreds of comments are basically praised and applauded, which makes people easily believe them. However, the instructions on the product are all in Japanese, and there is no detailed Chinese translation. After we buy it back, the specific method of taking it depends on the blogger’s recommendation notes, which actually has certain security risks. "

  The quality and safety of products can not be guaranteed, the product promotional pictures are inconsistent, and the data such as praise forwarding on the platform are falsified … … While online celebrity is in full swing, more and more users have discovered the gray "secret" behind the popularity of online celebrity products.

  Xiao Zhao, a graduate student in Hongkong, has always been a loyal user of online celebrity Grass Planting Platform and Short Video Social Platform. A while ago, after watching the live broadcast of a beauty blogger, she bought a online celebrity neck cream. "The biggest highlight of this neck cream is that it has a push-pull roller, and it feels particularly good to watch the live broadcast. After buying it back, I found that the composition of this neck cream is similar to that of ordinary moisturizer, and the effect is also very general, and the actual utilization rate is not high. " Xiao Zhao said frankly that watching the live broadcast of "planting grass" often leads to impulsive consumption. The live broadcast can show the products very intuitively and concretely, but there are often cases where the live broadcast does not match the real thing.

  Wang Xintian believes that the chaos in these industries is on the one hand an issue of industry evaluation mechanism. The intensification of industry competition in online celebrity has led to the increasingly obvious drawbacks of the evaluation mechanism on the mainstream online celebrity platform. For example, on some platforms, online celebrity is ranked by likes and sales volume, which leads some companies to "brush data" in order to get higher exposure. On the other hand, it is the problem of supervision mechanism. If "brushing data" can also be regarded as a kind of online marketing behavior, then false advertising is suspected of commercial fraud and needs the intervention of market supervision departments. At present, this aspect needs to be strengthened urgently.

  Have a scale in mind

  Governing by law and strengthening identification

  "It is a comprehensive management process to solve all kinds of problems existing in online celebrity’s goods delivery." Liao Huaixue believes that at present, China’s Advertising Law, Electronic Commerce Law, Anti-unfair Competition Law, Product Quality Law, Food Safety Law and Consumer Rights Protection Law have relatively perfect provisions on legal issues such as false propaganda, data fraud, product quality, food safety and consumer rights protection. In online celebrity, different subjects involved in the behavior of carrying goods should participate in the link of governance according to law.

  First of all, online celebrity with goods should improve the ability to control the quality of goods, carefully choose cooperative brands, and merchants should standardize the supply chain, work hard on the quality of goods, and ensure after-sales service. Secondly, the short video live broadcast platform should earnestly fulfill its responsibilities, strengthen the audit of live broadcast content, establish a "blacklist" system for online celebrity with goods and sellers, implement a platform ban system for online celebrity and merchants who infringe on consumers’ interests, standardize consumers’ payment methods, and establish and improve the platform order tracking system. The regulatory authorities should strengthen supervision. If online celebrity’s goods-carrying behavior infringes on the interests of consumers, the merchants and the goods-carrying online celebrity should share the responsibility. At the same time, if the short video live broadcast platform fails to fulfill the corresponding regulatory obligations and platform management responsibilities, the live broadcast platform should also bear the corresponding responsibilities.

  "Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts. I will trust evaluation bloggers who have more fans, more pertinent evaluations, advantages and disadvantages, and choose products from reliable brands. " Xiao Ning, who often browses the evaluation videos of skin care products on the short video platform, has her own experience in identifying online celebrity’s "planting grass". "After watching the video, first brush the comments under the video, then check the ingredients of the products on the special software, choose the products that really suit you, and then go to the e-commerce platform to search and buy." Strengthening the ability to identify products with goods in online celebrity and improving the network literacy of users of e-commerce and social platforms is a self-defense technique for netizens to deal with the problem of goods with goods in online celebrity.

  From June to November this year, the State Administration of Market Supervision and other eight departments jointly launched the 2019 special action of online market supervision (Network Sword Action) to severely crack down on online sales of counterfeit and shoddy products, unsafe food and counterfeit drugs. From September to December next year, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, State Administration of Market Supervision and National Medical Products Administration will jointly carry out "Implementing Food and Drug Safety ‘ The four strictest ’ Request "special action, to online celebrity food safety violations. National laws and supervision of relevant departments are "racing" with illegal activities in online celebrity.

  The authenticity of online celebrity products is being tested by consumers and the market; Online celebrity’s routine of bringing goods is also gradually being found out by users and supervision platforms; Online celebrity’s brand image has become more and more true after the flushing of flow realization. With the improvement of consumers’ discriminating ability, the tightening of platform supervision and the strengthening of law enforcement, online celebrity will eventually return to its original intention: let more high-quality goods meet people who really need them.

Online Reading Club | Reading Life and National Writing in Meta-Universe Era

Das Kapital, painted by a China man.

Time:14:00 on Friday, December 24th.

Location:Bilibili

Guest:Dai Dunbang (painter), Shen Jialu (writer) and Ma Shanglong (writer)

In addition to creating classic images such as A Dream of Red Mansions, Water Margin, Jin Ping Mei, Liaozhai, The Journey to the West and Tao Te Ching, Dai Dunbang also created Marx’s Das Kapital into a picture book, creating 60 masterpieces in 800 days, realizing the long-cherished wish of a China painter for half a century. He read Das Kapital many times and searched for information in many places, often getting up at 3: 30 in the morning to conceive and create. Why did a China painter paint Das Kapital, and how many hardships did ordinary people experience? At the lecture site, two writers in Dai Dunbang and Shanghai, Shen Jialu and Ma Shanglong, who are also "iron fans" of Mr. Dai, will tell you all about it.

Photography in the Forbidden City: Charm, Secularity and Visual Culture in Modern China

Time:December 24th (Friday) 19:00-21:00.

Location:Tencent conference (ID: 60878953558)

Speaker:Jun-jian Liang (Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University)

During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Forbidden City changed from a functional political building to a memorial historical building and cultural and cultural unit. In the historical process of China’s modernization, the functional changes of the Forbidden City are intertwined with the cultural practice of modern photography, which affects the reconstruction of the architectural space and meaning space of the Forbidden City. Through the investigation of anthropological photography, tourism photography and news photography related to the Forbidden City in this period, we can find that photography dispelled the charm of the Forbidden City as a secret palace and turned it into a secular, barren and occupied space. On the other hand, anthropology and journalism have transformed the Forbidden City into a cultural landscape and a national symbol, thus giving the Forbidden City a new charm. In this sense, photography is not only a medium to dispel the old charm, but also can produce and reconstruct new charm.

Deleuze’s "Abstract Machine"

Time:December 24th (Friday) 19:00-21:00.

Location:Tencent conference (ID: 33075279867)

Speaker:Li Kelin (Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Philosophy, China Renmin University)

Abstract machine is an important concept in Deleuze’s later theory. In Thousand Plateau, he replaced the desire machine in Anti-Oedipus with abstract machine, trying to separate the active escape line from the passive generation of human beings. In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze compares the automaticity of production with machines, fills the internal power of production with desire, and combines the two to illustrate the existence of individuals in society with "desire machine". Correspondingly, the "abstract machine" points out the absolute surplus phenomenon of the desire machine in social production, while the "abstract" shows the pure material out of form, while the "machine" turns to the birth of a new form. From the perspective of ontology, "abstract machine" resists the solidification of existence with eternal rheology. From the perspective of vitality theory, "abstract machine" opposes the transcendence of ideas with the immanence of experience. Deleuze explored the possibility of resolving the confrontation between life and machine through this concept, and also intended to respond to the question that always lingered above the limit of "solution domain". The discussion of life initiative through "abstract machine" is not only the theme of Deleuze’s later philosophy, but also constitutes an important trend in the development of contemporary French philosophy.

Fame on Paper: On Education and Justice from Children of Poor Families Going to College

Time:December 24th (Friday) 19:00-21:00.

Location:Tencent conference (ID: 931714617)

Guest:Tian Lei (Professor, School of Law, East China Normal University), Huang Deng (Scholar, Non-fiction Writer), Guo Fei (Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University Institute of Education), Wu Qiuxiang (Lecturer, School of Education, China Renmin University), Yue Ying (Master, Tsinghua University Institute of Marxism).

"Admission is not equal to integration." This sentence was published in "Poor Children Go to College: Why American Elite Universities Turn Their Back on Poor Students". The book is frequently mentioned. When poor students break through the thorns and knock on the university gate, it does not mean that the standard plot of "counterattack" in life will be started from now on. A more realistic scenario is that when you open this door, there is still a road full of unknowns in front of you. Some people will rise from there, while others will gradually give up on themselves in the constant fall. What caused this difference? This salon will invite a number of guests from different disciplines, starting with the book "Children from Poor Families Go to College", to discuss the issues of education and justice, and to compare and think about them in a broader social and historical perspective.

Image Centennial Shanghai Design: Looking back on the course of Shanghai design in the past century

Time:14:00 on December 25th (Saturday)

Location:Bilibili

Guest:Lei Zhao (Deputy Director of the Department of Design, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University), Jiang Qinggong (Graphic Designer) and Tang Weijie (Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Tongji University)

Image Centennial Shanghai Design includes the exhibition of "Centennial Shanghai Design" held by Liu Haisu Art Museum in the autumn of 2020. It looks back at the beginning, development and change of "Shanghai Design" from the end of 19th century to the beginning of 21st century with rich levels and angles, and completely displays 20 main stories and 50 entries of "Shanghai Design". This sharing meeting, together with the publishing of new books, is intended to let readers know the basic historical track of the development of "Shanghai Design".

What kind of archaeology do people like? -public archaeological exploration by two generations of archaeologists

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 15:00-17:00

Location:"single read" wechat video number

Guest:Yang Hong (Senior Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and Xu Hong (Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

In 1921, the excavation of Yangshao site by An Tesheng and others opened the prelude of modern archaeology in China. This year happens to be the 100th year of China archaeology. During this hundred years, due to the progress of science, field archaeology has sprung up suddenly, and the field archaeological excavation in China has achieved unprecedented and fruitful results. Yang Hong’s "One Hundred Years of Archaeology-Reproduction of China" includes the important archaeological discoveries in the past 100 years, from prehistoric civilization to Song civilization, from city sites, temple towers and tombs to bronze mirrors and jade articles. And what kind of stories are behind these relics or cultural relics, and what kind of thinking has caused archaeologists? On December 25th, welcome to the "Single Reading" video number to watch the live broadcast, and listen to Mr. Yang Hong and Mr. Xu Hong talking about those stories about archaeology …

The Mythical Universe Behind The Lord of the Rings —— Tolkien and His Mid-continent World

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 19:00-21:00

Location:Bilibili

Speaker:Uncle Rose (Lord UP, Lord of the Rings fan)

How on earth should we enter the Zhongzhou universe created by Tolkien? How to clarify Tolkien’s long history? On Saturday night (December 25th is the day when the Lord of the Rings expedition set out from the valley), we invited Uncle Rose, a famous UP master and a veteran fan of The Lord of the Rings, to take all the members of the Lord of the Rings into the mythical universe behind The Lord of the Rings.

The Pingcheng Period in the Northern Wei Dynasty from the Perspective of Archaeology

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:00-15:30.

Location:Tsinghua Yibo official Weibo, Live Art, Live Art, Calligraphy and Art Commune.

Speaker:Li Meitian (Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of History, Renmin University of China)

The fifth century, with Pingcheng (now Datong) as its capital in the Northern Wei Dynasty, was a period of political, social and cultural transformation of Tuoba Xianbei, which was an important link in the process of pluralistic integration of Chinese civilization. The lecture will interpret the characteristics and evolution of civilization in this transitional period from three aspects: urban form, funeral culture and tomb art.

Hangzhou: Historical Narration and Literary Writing

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 15:00-17:30.

Location:Tencent conference (ID: 160939440)

Guest:Liu Zhengping (researcher of Chinese Department of Hangzhou Normal University), Lv Yanlin (lecturer of Chinese Department of Hangzhou Normal University) and Hu Yuehan (associate professor of history department of Hangzhou Normal University)

The ancient city of Liangzhu 5,000 years ago, the "Southeast Famous County" from Qin and Han Dynasties, and the "Heavenly Palace" in the 10th century A.D., the historical figure of Hangzhou City is constantly changing. The same scenery, different people may have different complex; The same city, different historical backgrounds may show different charm. A little bit of text marks, patterns and historical meanings. On December 26th, Meiyuan Classic Reading Group will hold the 42nd Salon to exchange the image and humanistic feelings of Hangzhou in literature and history through online reading at Tencent Conference.

Emotion and emotion in literature

Time:19:00 on Monday, December 27th.

Location:Tencent conference (ID: 468563864)

Speaker:Wei Jin (Professor, Chinese Department, East China Normal University)

Teacher Wei Jin mainly studied British and American literature, comparative literature and literary theory in the 18th century, and published comments, essays and poems in the media under the pseudonym of Mo Shuitian. On December 27th, we invited her to give an online lecture on emotion and emotion in literature.

Compilation and construction of preface and postscript collection, chronological examination and database of Chinese-translated literature

Time:December 30th (Thursday) 15:00-17:00

Location:Tencent conference (ID: 931633106)

Speaker:Li Jin (Professor, School of Literature, China Renmin University)

The academic circles call the great changes in the concept, connotation, presentation, storage, retrieval and acquisition of historical materials caused by the new historical view, especially the computer and digital technology, the "historical materials revolution". The compilation, annotation and writing of 18 volumes of Preface and Postscript Collection of Chinese Translation Literature (1894-1949) and 10 volumes of Textual Annals of Chinese Translation Literature (periodical articles) (1896-1949) and their database construction are in the process of this historical revolution. The lecture summarizes the new insights and discoveries brought by the cultural turn theory of translation studies to the collation and research of Chinese-translated literary historical materials, as well as the problems and opportunities encountered in the digital humanities era, and shares the experience of the mutual blending and creative transformation of traditional research methods and digital technology; Then it expounds the name, reality and approach of Chinese-translated literature research. In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Chinese-translated literature occupied an important position in China’s thought and speech, and it was an anatomical prototype to explore how China culture "transformed" western learning; Finally, the lecture will also look forward to the completion of these two large-scale historical materials projects, which may play a positive role in constructing the overall evolution of literary history, grasping the ideological atmosphere and historical context of an era, revealing the complexity of the modern transformation of China literature, rewriting the history of Chinese literature, and even the history of modern literature in China.

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Beijing | those comedy things

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00

Location:SKP RENDEZ-VOUS, Floor 2, SKP-S Shopping Center, No.86 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District

Guest:Dongdong Gun (comedy lover), Hao Yu (stand-up comedian)

Maybe you want to know more about talk shows and new comedies. On December 25th, we jointly held a theme salon with Sanlian Life Weekly called "Comedy Things". Hao Yu, a comedian and stand-up comedian, was invited to visit SKP RENDEZ-VOUS, and rye, the main writer of Sanlian Life Weekly, was the host to talk about what we are laughing at now.

Beijing | Walking into Adult Kindergarten Together —— Sharing Meeting of the New Book Growing Up Again

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00

Location:CITIC Bookstore, Floor 2, Heshenghui Shopping Center, No.21 Xidawang Road, Chaoyang District

Speaker:Mao Lengleng (writer)

Growing Up Again is a collection of novels written by Mao Lengdeng, a high-quality creator in Zhihu. The book fictionalizes an "adult kindergarten" which is specially open to adults and takes in "children" who are covered with scars and don’t grow up. With the gentle tone of storytelling and professional psychological knowledge, the author expresses the obscure theory in a perceptual and easy-to-understand way, which is very inclusive. On December 25th, we will hold a new book sharing meeting with Mao Lengdeng in CITIC Bookstore (Heshenghui Store). At Christmas, embrace your inner child and grow up again.

Beijing | What is the central axis of the city?

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:00-16:00

Location:SKP RENDEZ-VOUS, Floor 2, SKP-S Shopping Center, No.86 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District

Guest:Zhu Zuxi (special expert of China Cultural Relics Society), Geng Shuo (associate professor of School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts) and Tang Gengsheng (former director and research librarian of China Memory Project Center of National Library).

Axis is like the "aorta" of a city. Every great city has its unique axis, which represents the development and planning of cities in past dynasties and the highest level of architects. The central axis of Beijing is an extremely rare axis of architectural art in the history of world cities. On December 26th, we invited Zhu Zuxi, a distinguished expert of China Cultural Relics Society, Geng Shuo, an associate professor of the School of Humanities of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Tang Gengsheng, former director of the China Memory Project Center of the National Library, to visit SKP RENDEZ-VOUS to talk about the pattern evolution and context inheritance on the central axis.

Beijing | General Knowledge and Empathy: Modern China Seen in Novels

Time:14:00 on Sunday, December 26th.

Location:Yonghe Bookstore, Floor 1, Block B, Yonghe Palace One Center, No.51 Hepingli West Street, Dongcheng District

Guest:Li Xianyu (Associate Professor, School of Literature, Capital Normal University), Yang Zao (Researcher, Institute of Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences) and Meng Yue (Chinese teacher).

Fiction is a footnote to history, and its content is fictional, but it often reflects the mood of the times more truly and moving than newspaper files. The Novel Modern China selected 40 classic novels from 1919 to 1948, which cleared the fog of words and searched for clues in the novels, presented readers with various social conditions in modern China, and opened the "hidden corner" hidden in these novels that we had previously ignored. On the afternoon of December 26th, in Yonghe Bookstore, Li Xianyu, a professor at the School of Literature of Capital Normal University, Yang Zao, a research institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences, and Meng Yue, a Chinese teacher at Beijing Jingshan School, will take you through the 30 years of the Republic of China and read China in novels.

Beijing | 2021 Year-end Reading Sharing Meeting

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:00-17:00

Location:Naimu Bookstore, 4th Floor, Yansha Friendship Shopping Mall, No.52 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District

It’s the 10th year from the first year-end conference at the end of 2012 to this year. Every year, the year-end conference is the most important activity in the library. Book lovers will share their reading experience for one year, recommend their annual TOP10 list and reading plan for the coming year. At the annual year-end conference, you can find the readers around you as your reading role models. If you are still looking for good books worth reading, if you are still regretting that you have a mountain of books and read very little, if you have read interesting books and want to find a bosom friend to share. Then you must attend the year-end meeting of the library pavilion!

Beijing | What’s the experience of being a detective in Beijing for a day: a sharing session of the interactive mystery novel Winner Out.

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 19:30-21:00.

Location:Yonghe Bookstore, Floor 1, Block B, Yonghe Palace One Center, No.51 Hepingli West Street, Dongcheng District

Speaker:Wu Fei (mystery novelist)

A set of three-dimensional interactive reasoning novels, a set of three-dimensional interactive reasoning game books, and a series of brain-burning pursuit games. Through the maze of exquisite entities and online props, step by step approach the core of the case. This will be an adventure that can’t guess the ending. Until it’s over, you will find it hard to detect the incredible truth.

Shanghai | Telescope and Starry Sky

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 13:30-15:00

Location:Atrium of Building A, Lianyang Plaza, No.300 Fangdian Road, Pudong New Area

Speaker:Wu Jingping (popular science writer)

Just last month, Academician Wu Xiangping announced that China would build five more sky-eye-level radio telescopes to form the most powerful radio telescope array in the world, which can ensure that China is ahead of the world in the hardware capability of radio telescopes for 50 years. Building a large telescope on the ground is not only an optical technical problem, but also limited by the observation address. Now we have finally found the best site for a large optical telescope in the eastern hemisphere in Qinghai, which means that our large optical telescope can work hard soon. In this issue, Mr. Wu Jingping, who is called "Comment on the History of Science", will share it with you.

Shanghai | Missing: When Portuguese Culture Meets China —— Poetry and Literature Sharing Meeting

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00

Location:Lugar, Floor 3, Building D, Henderson Xuhui Tiandi, Lane 458, Madang Road, Huangpu District

Guest:Isawa (Consul General of Portugal in Shanghai), Cai Xin (General Manager of CITIC Publishing Dafang), Zhao Song (writer and critic) and Xu Yixing (Professor of Shanghai International Studies University)

Christmas is coming! In addition to a gourmet dinner, family reunion and a special activity. This Saturday, Lian Culture and the Portuguese Consulate General in Shanghai jointly launched a literary salon with the theme of "Missing: Portuguese Literature and Poetry-Dialogue between China and Portugal", waiting for you to explore Portuguese poetry and literature together.

Shanghai | On the Theme of the First Reader Science Fiction Literature Award

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00

Location:Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, West Gate, Shanghai Library, No.1555 Huaihai Middle Road, Xuhui District

Guest:Jiang Xiaoyuan (Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University), Yan Feng (Professor of Chinese Department of Fudan University), etc.

Dialogue on the theme of the first Reader’s Science Fiction Literature Award, two guests, Jiang Xiaoyuan and Yan Feng, as well as gold medal and silver medal players May Feather, Lao Tanzi, Yang Jiandong and Qiu Xin, will talk about how to tell the local science fiction stories in China well.

Shanghai | Understanding Qian Xuesen’s Spiritual World in "On Qian Xuesen"

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00 

Location:Shanghai Ancient Books Bookstore, No.401 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District

Speaker:Lv Chengdong (Deputy Research Librarian of Qian Xuesen Library of Shanghai Jiaotong University)

December 11th, 2021 is the 110th anniversary of the birth of Qian Xuesen, an outstanding scientist and founder of China’s space industry. On December 25th, in order to understand Qian Xuesen’s knowledge-seeking experience and understand Qian Xuesen’s spirit, Lv Chengdong, deputy research librarian of Qian Xuesen Library of Shanghai Jiaotong University, will hold a lecture and signing ceremony on "Reading His Spiritual World in Qian Xuesen’s Tales" in Shanghai Ancient Books Bookstore. In the lecture, the guests will lead the readers to Qian Xuesen and feel his faith and love for the people of his country and the development of science and technology.

Shanghai | How does Shanghai home cooking become a famous dish?

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 14:00-15:30

Location:Da Yin Jing She Gao Shan Liu Shui Ting, No.308 Chongqing South Road, Huangpu District

Speaker:Abnormal pen (writer, producer)

Shanghai cuisine used to be called local cuisine, which is rich in flavor and rich in oil and red sauce, and has a homely flavor. Since Shanghai opened its port in 1843, with the development of industry and commerce, merchants from all directions gathered, and restaurants came into being. By the 1930s and 40s of this century, there were many local restaurants in Shanghai. Shanghai is located in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, with abundant aquatic resources and evergreen vegetables. It is located in a transportation hub, and it is convenient to purchase local specialties, which provides good raw materials and seasonings for the development of Shanghai cuisine. Under these conditions, the former local cuisine has gradually formed a unique Shanghai cuisine today. On December 25th, an old Shanghainese and a senior media person will tell the story of how Shanghai home cooking became a famous dish in Dayin Jingshe, and listen to the little stories of Shanghai home cooking.

Shanghai | From the Bund to Lujiazui —— One River and One River and the Formation of Shanghai City Landmarks

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 15:00-16:00

Location:Atrium of Building A, Lianyang Plaza, No.300 Fangdian Road, Pudong New Area

Speaker:Xing Jianrong (Deputy Director of Shanghai Archives Bureau and former Deputy Director of Shanghai Archives Bureau)

Mr. Xing Jianrong has dabbled in Shanghai’s urban landscape, commercial finance, ups and downs of people, and rare stories of Yilin in the past hundred years. Where the European War Monument on the Bund went, the mystery of the height of China Bank Building, and so on are all interesting topics. An article is like a knowledge lecture. Huang Jinrong’s later years, the models of Shanghai Fine Arts College, the process of the establishment of Shanghai China Painting Academy, and the comic book artist of Shanghai People’s Art Society-"108 Generals", these chapters are like legendary stories and fascinating.

Shanghai | Looking at Shanghai as an Immigrant City from an Old Apartment

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 16:00-17:00

Location:Atrium of Building A, Lianyang Plaza, No.300 Fangdian Road, Pudong New Area

Speaker:Xu Ce (first-class editor and writer of Shanghai Radio and TV Station)

"Spring Water" is the finale of a multi-volume novel. It takes a riverside building on the Suzhou River, once known as "the first apartment in Asia", as a real scene, and shows the ups and downs experienced by people of all walks of life living here in the past 60 years. The characters in the riverside building and their fate are actually a microcosm of the city.

Shanghai | The Situation and Taste of Lonely Travel in Life —— The Release Conference of the New Book "Lonely Scenery"

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 16:00-17:30

Location:Zhongban study room, No.345 Xianxia Road, Changning District

Guest:Wang Yonghao (Professor of Chinese Department of Fudan University) and Pan Xiangli (Novelist)

Modern people who travel through the hustle and bustle of the city generally lose the sense of empathy with people and the universe, and face the world alone in their hearts. What is true literature? What else can we do about literature? On December 25th, we invited two teachers, Wang Yonghao and Pan Xiangli, to come to the Chinese version of the study room to discuss history and art from poetry books, novels and music records to landscapes, cities and civilizations, so as to enrich the spiritual scenery in the journey of life for the "spiritual solitude".

Reading Life and National Writing in Shanghai | Meta-Universe Era

Time:13:30 on Sunday, December 26th.

Location:Film and Television Hall, 2nd Floor, Yangpu District Library, No.366 Changhai Road, Yangpu District

Speaker:Xia Deyuan (Professor, School of Publishing, Printing and Art Design, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)

The ability to read is a unique talent of human beings, and it is also an increasingly important way of life for human beings. After entering the Internet era, traditional reading has encountered many problems and challenges, and also ushered in new development opportunities. As Blanqui, a French thinker, said, "The so-called reading means that people can be free and their works can be free." Reading should be a learning activity and a living state of physical and mental pleasure; Only by enjoying it can we benefit. The advent of the meta-cosmic era has brought a huge imagination space for human reading life and writing practice, making it possible to bid farewell to the hard study of the head-hanging beam and the awl-piercing stock completely.

Shanghai | Ba Jin and his friends: The Reading Club of "The Star Water is Far Away from the Camel Bell"

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:00-15:30.

Location:Hongkou Branch, Commercial Press, 3rd Floor, 1925 Bookstore, No.856 Sichuan North Road, Hongkou District

Speaker:Zhou Limin (Executive Deputy Director of Ba Jin’s Former Residence and Executive Vice President of Ba Jin Research Association)

"A Twilight in the Stars" is based on the important life segments and ideological development tracks of six writers and scholars, such as Shen Congwen, Bian Zhilin, Li Jianwu, Liang Zongdai, Fang Lingru and Xiao Gan, and the connection between them and the history of China in the 20th century, with friends such as Ba Jin, Zheng Zhenduo and Shen Ying making friends and singing in spirit, so as to observe the spiritual outlook of new literature writers after the May 4th Movement and their correspondence with the times. On Sunday afternoon, let’s meet the Hongkou branch of the Commercial Press and listen to the story of Ba Jin and his friends told by Mr. Zhou Limin.

Shanghai | Why do we need art?

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 16:00-17:30

Location:Hongkou Branch, Commercial Press, 3rd Floor, 1925 Bookstore, No.856 Sichuan North Road, Hongkou District

Speaker:Liu Xuguang (Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Shanghai University)

Does art contain truth, and how is truth embodied in art? Is truth a concrete thing that has existed in nature, or something created in people’s hearts? What do Heidegger, Husserl and Hegel say? In two books, The Origin of Modern European Artistic Spirit-Florence Culture and Art in Renaissance, Art and Truth, Liu Xu takes you into the world of art and the palace of truth. On Sunday afternoon, we met with the Hongkou branch of the Commercial Press and asked together with Professor Liu Xuguang, "Why do we need art?"

New Book Signing Activities of "Da Yu Ding" and "Da Ke Ding" in Shanghai | Jinshi Famous Series

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:00-16:00

Location:Floor 1, Art Bookstore, No.424 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District

Guest:Wang Shuangqiang (chairman and founder of Qinhan Hutong), Chen Jiang (chairman of Zhongrui Wenlv), Guo Junjie (co-founder of Fan Deng Reading) and Wang Lite (member of Xiling Printing Society).

Ding is one of the most important bronze wares in ancient China. In the Zhou Dynasty, there were regulations on the number of users, such as "Emperor Jiuding, Seven Diners of Governors, Five Diners of Qing Dafu and Three Diners of Yuan Shi". With the gradual evolution of this rank, identity and status symbol, Ding has gradually become a symbol of the country, the country and power. On the afternoon of December 26th, Simona, with his new book "Da Yu Ding" and "Da Ke Ding", and other guests, such as Chen Jiang, the chairman of China-Sweden Literature Travel Service, Guo Junjie, the co-founder of Fan Deng Reading, and Wang Lite, a member of Xiling Printing Society, held a new book signing activity in the art bookstore. During the activity, Simona will exchange the historical origin and artistic value of "Yueke Shuangding" with readers, and sign autographs for readers.

Shanghai | New Book Conference of Artificial Intelligence Law Series Textbooks

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:00-16:00

Location:Duoyun Academy, 52nd Floor, Shanghai Tower, No.501 Yincheng Middle Road, Pudong New Area

Guest:Cui Yadong (Party Secretary and President of Shanghai Law Society) and Liu Xiaohong (President of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law)

The book "Artificial Intelligence Assisted Case Handling" shows the history and present situation of the development of artificial intelligence macroscopically, details the birth process of the intelligent assisted case handling system for criminal cases, introduces its system overview and system architecture, and summarizes the technical application of the intelligent assisted case handling system from two aspects of application technology principle and application technology innovation. On the afternoon of December 26th, Cui Yadong, Party Secretary of Shanghai Law Society and Chief Editor of Artificial Intelligence Law Series, and Liu Xiaohong, President of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and Deputy Chief Editor of Artificial Intelligence Law Series, will visit Duoyun Academy flagship store to share the intersection of artificial intelligence law and modern society with readers.

Shanghai | The Book of Imprisonment: The Reform Adventure of a Benevolent Gentleman

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:00-15:30.

Location:Zhongban study room, No.345 Xianxia Road, Changning District

Speaker:Liu Xun (Assistant Professor, Institute of Humanities, University of Science and Technology Shanghai)

In 536 BC, under the strong impetus of the ruling Qing Zi chan, the Zheng government cast the criminal law, which had been secretly mastered by the prison authorities, on a series of bronze dings and made it public to the whole society all the year round, as a unified standard for the country to adjudicate cases and sentence. This is the reform of "casting criminal books". "The Book of Casting Punishment" is the first written law published in the history of China, which is not only an important event in the political history of Zheng, but also an important event in the legal history of China. Why did Zichan promote this unprecedented reform adventure? After the start of the reform, what kind of storm has been set off in Zheng State and what kind of controversy has been caused at the international level? What is the far-reaching significance of this reform for future generations? Professor Liu Xun, the author of Salvation: Zi Chan’s Way of Governing the Country, will explain it to you.

Shanghai | Stage Presentation of Russian Works

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 14:30-16:30

Location:Duoyun Academy Drama Store, No.398 Changle Road, Huangpu District

Guest:Qian Shijin (Special Expert of China Theatre Development Research Center), Li Xinmei (Associate Professor of Russian Department, School of Foreign Languages, Fudan University) and Liu Chen (Russian Editor of Shanghai Translation Publishing House).

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. Brothers karamazov is Dostoevsky’s last work, which contains all novels. In 2022, it will be adapted into the Chinese musical brothers karamazov, vividly presented on the stage and premiered at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. On the afternoon of December 26th, Qian Shijin, the first artistic director of Shanghai Grand Theatre, Li Xinmei, an associate professor of Russian Department of Fudan University, and Liu Chen, Russian editor of Shanghai Translation Publishing House, will start from the adaptation of the Chinese musical brothers karamazov, talk with readers about the reasons why world famous works are frequently selected for the stage by musicals, and discuss the staged classic works of Russia and the staged versions of other works of Tolstoy.

Shanghai | Liu Xianquan’s Open Course of Financial Criminal Law and the Press Conference of the New Book "Research on Securities and Futures Crimes"

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 18:30-20:00.

Location:Duoyun Academy, 52nd Floor, Shanghai Tower, No.501 Yincheng Middle Road, Pudong New Area

Speaker:Liu Xianquan (Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of East China University of Political Science and Law)

The book "Research on Securities and Futures Crimes" written by Liu Xianquan focuses on the crimes related to securities and futures trading in the financial market, such as insider trading, leaking inside information, trading with undisclosed information, and manipulating the securities and futures markets. On the evening of December 26th, Liu Xianquan, a professor at East China University of Political Science and Law and president of the Institute of Criminal Law, will be a guest at the flagship store of Duoyun Academy to share his new book and bring readers an open class of financial criminal law.

Chongqing | Put yourself in the other’s shoes —— The new book release conference of At Rest: China from 1981 to 1984.

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 15:00-17:00

Location:L2 Classic Bookstore, Hall 1891D, Dongyuan, No.83 Nanbin Road, Nan ‘an District

Guest:Lao An (photographer), Dai Qianfeng (photographer, book editor) and Qiang Wen (writer)

Forty years ago, Italian photographer Andrea Cavazzuti came to China. Nowadays, he has become a kind "old man" in the mouth of his friends. His first photo collection "At Rest: China from 1981 to 1984" was also published, which included more than 190 frames of photos he took in China from 1981 to 1984, and recorded some daily life scenes of China people in that "at ease era". On December 26th, we specially invited Dai Qianfeng, a senior photographer and writer, and Lao An to talk about the daily life of people in that "time of rest" and re-examine the life that may have been forgotten by us.

Nanjing | "Life" and China people’s living methods-Hu Xuewen’s new book sharing meeting

Time:December 25th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00

Location:Keyi Bookstore Xianlin Art Center, No.9 Shanhu East Road, Qixia District

Guest:Hu Xuewen (writer), Huang Beijia (writer) and Huang Hong (professor and doctoral supervisor of French Department of Nanjing University).

On the afternoon of December 25th, Hu Xuewen, a famous writer, will appear in Keyi Bookstore, Nanjing, with Huang Beijia, a famous writer, and Huang Mi, a professor at the School of Foreign Languages of Nanjing University, as guest speakers, and Zhang Guangguang, a professor at the China New Literature Research Center of Nanjing University, as guest hosts. This activity will have a wonderful dialogue and collision with the theme of "Life and the Living Method of China People".

Hangzhou | Customs and Boundaries —— Thinking from the litigation files

Time:Monday, December 27th, 19:00-21:00.

Location:Room 1127, Creative Building A, Zijingang West District, Zhejiang University, No.866 Yuhangtang Road, Xihu District

Speaker:Du Zhengzhen (Professor, School of History, Zhejiang University)

In litigation files, it is easy to see that etiquette, law and custom together constitute a system of social rules, but what is more interesting is their historical evolution relationship. Disputes over the ownership of mountain fields are also very common. The fierce competition around the boundary confirmation is behind the history of the boundary from scratch, from oral to written, from private agreement to cadastre. Starting from people’s actual operation and expression in litigation, these two examples may lead us to think about the historical process and power mechanism of how people obtain "certainty" and "consensus" in traditional society.

Shenzhen | See China and the world at 40 degrees north latitude.

Time:20:00 on Friday, December 24th.

Location:Shenzhen Central Book City, No.2014 Fuzhongyi Road, Futian District

Speaker:Chen Fumin (scholar and critic)

Forty degrees north latitude is a great cultural essay that focuses on forty degrees north latitude. Taking the long history of China as the longitude and the geographical belt of forty degrees north latitude as the latitude, the author Chen Fumin drew a unique map of the mountains and rivers through the ages. On Friday night, Chen Fumin will take this new book to Shenzhen Central Book City to talk with readers about China and the world seen at 40 degrees north latitude.

Shenzhen | Openness and Restraint of Prose

Time:15:00 on December 25th (Saturday)

Location:Shenzhen Longhua Book City, No.1389 Meilong Avenue, Longhua District

Speaker:Chen Fumin (scholar and critic)

On Saturday afternoon, Chen Fumin will come to Shenzhen Longhua Bookstore with his new work "Forty Degrees North Latitude" to share and communicate with readers and talk about prose writing.

Changsha | Echo of the World Innocent Singing

Time:December 26th (Sunday) 15:00-17:00

Location:Zhijian Bookstore, No.343 Lushan South Road, Yuelu District

Guest:Wang Yuewen (writer) and Zhang Zhan (poet)

From the collection Shoushan Ying, we can see the writer Wang Yuewen’s self-analysis and dialogue, as well as his absolute frankness to literature. Zhang Zhan and Wang Yuewen are not only a couple in life, but also literary companions. As a poet, Zhang Zhan writes about everything in nature and the journey of life in the form of poetry. Everything can be included in poetry, and everything is poetry. On Sunday afternoon, the fourth phase of Lushan Famous Reading Club invited Wang Yuewen, a famous writer, to have a dialogue with Zhang Zhan, a poet, to stop at a bookstore in University Town. This will be a dialogue of literature, a dialogue of life, and even a dialogue between each reader and himself in the name of literature at the end of the year.

Fuzhou | Song Dynasty, where is the tide? -"Song Chao: Great Song Civilization in Change" Book Sharing Signing Conference

Time:19:30 on Friday, December 24th.

Location:2F, Lusen Bookstore, No.85 and No.87, Shangxiahanglifa Lane, Taijiang District

Speaker:Wu Gou (historical writer)

Do women have property rights in Song Dynasty? When did the world’s first fire brigade come into being? What procedures do Song people need to buy a house and rent a house? Wu Gou, a well-known historical writer and researcher of the Song Dynasty, brought us back to the historical scene with his latest masterpiece Song Chao: The Great Song Civilization in Change, and carefully examined 25 manifestations of the Song Dynasty civilization with the characteristics of modernization, showing various clues of modernization in five fields, namely, municipal administration, humanities, economy, politics and justice. On December 24th, I came to Lusen Bookstore in Fuzhou and listened to "Song Fen" Wu Gou telling about the Song Dynasty. Where was the tide?

This "America first", everyone is watching a joke.

Only nine months after taking office, Kevin McCarthy, the third person in the United States and Speaker of the House of Representatives, was removed from office on October 3. CNN said that this is the first time in American history that the Speaker of the House of Representatives was voted out.

Not only did he create history when he left office, but McCarthy also staged an embarrassing farce of "once in a hundred years" when he took office at the beginning of this year-after four days and 15 rounds of voting, he barely became the speaker, which was the longest voting in the House of Representatives election for more than 160 years since the Civil War.

Unexpectedly, McCarthy was kicked off the speaker’s position before his ass got hot after he got to the top.

According to Lv Xiang, an expert on American issues at China Academy of Social Sciences, McCarthy’s dismissal was expected. In the initial campaign tug-of-war, McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold of the "recall motion" in order to win the votes of ultra-conservatives in the party, which in itself laid the groundwork for his stepping down. "The end has long been doomed, but I was not sure when this day would come."

Feeling of being dismissed"great"

Judging from the voting results of the recall motion, there were 216 votes in favor and 210 votes against it. In the House of Representatives, which has a majority of Republican seats, McCarthy obviously lost some of his party support votes, that is, some Republican lawmakers "defected" and voted in favor of the recall of McCarthy together with Democratic lawmakers.

·The picture of the US House of Representatives voting on the resolution to recall Republican Speaker McCarthy.

Why was McCarthy "abandoned" by the Republican Party? The direct cause is the parliamentary dispute over the appropriation bill.

The fiscal year 2023 in the United States ended on September 30, and the Democratic Party and the Republican Party had been fighting endlessly over the federal budget appropriation bill for the new fiscal year. Just at the last moment when the government was on the verge of running out of money and preparing to close the door, the short-term appropriation bill was passed on the evening of September 30, local time, temporarily avoiding the crisis of the US federal government’s lockout again.

In fact, the Republican Party originally wanted to give the Democratic US President Biden a "color" look through the appropriation bill.

Ultra-conservatives in the Republican Party have been pressuring McCarthy not to support any provisional appropriation bill, and even threatened to let McCarthy step down once the provisional appropriation bill was passed.

As a result, the Republicans designed it for a long time, and McCarthy broke the chain at the last minute and compromised with the Democratic Party, so that the appropriation bill was passed.

The appropriation bill was passed, and McCarthy was regarded as "meritorious" on the Democratic side, but it also angered the Republican Party and became the fuse for his dismissal.

After being dismissed, McCarthy held a press conference and said that he felt "great" and that he would not run for the Speaker again.

Some media analysts said that McCarthy’s abandonment of re-election is actually saving face. Although he can run for election again immediately according to the law, since he was elected as the speaker after a full 15 rounds of voting last time, it will definitely not be easy if he runs for election again.

·This is McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republican Party, filmed in Washington, DC on September 29th. Xinhua news agency

During his nine months as Speaker of the House of Representatives, McCarthy was repeatedly challenged by ultra-conservatives in the Republican Party.

Earlier this year, the United States almost defaulted on its debt. McCarthy and Biden reached a compromise in May, and Congress passed a bill on the government debt ceiling. At that time, the ultra-conservatives in the Republican Party thought that McCarthy had not pushed hard enough to cut government spending, and once considered proposing a motion to remove McCarthy.

It’s not that McCarthy hasn’t thought about "saving himself". In September this year, on the issue of impeaching Biden, McCarthy handed out an "olive branch" to the radicals in the Republican Party.

On September 12, McCarthy said in Congress that the investigation of Biden’s family members by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee found that Biden’s family had a "culture of corruption" and there might be "abuse of power, obstruction of justice and corruption", so "I announced today that the House Committee will formally launch an impeachment investigation against President Biden".

According to US media reports, McCarthy announced an impeachment investigation against Biden, to some extent to meet the requirements of the far-right conservatives in the Republican Party in the House of Representatives. Some conservative Republican lawmakers said that the impeachment investigation against Biden was only a "small step" and "we should speed up the pace of action". If McCarthy moves slowly, measures may be taken to "step down".

McCarthy, who was threatened to "step down" without a word, was completely caught.

"An actor with poor acting skills"

We can "unite" Republicans by impeaching Biden, or compromise with Democrats for the benefit. It is precisely because of this characteristic of have it both ways that McCarthy is described by the American media as "the best congressional chameleon".

"McCarthy is a typical opportunist. Generally speaking, he is a Republican, but staunch Republicans don’t trust him. " Lu Xiang said that after McCarthy took office, he tried to get support from many parties, but the Republican party could not understand it. He would also play the idea of the Democratic Party and do something to please it. But in the end, McCarthy, who used to be a "fence-sitter" and "fence-sitter", only ended up being dismissed.

In the American political arena where money is paramount, McCarthy’s history can be described as "another way". He can sit in the "third place" with "excellent interpersonal skills".

In 1965, McCarthy was born into an ordinary family in California. His father was a fireman and his grandfather owned a small ranch. As an adult, McCarthy worked as a worker and opened a sandwich shop. In 1987, 22-year-old McCarthy sold the store and used the money to study at California State University.

During his college years, McCarthy met the "Bole" who changed his fate, then Republican Congressman Bill Thomas. McCarthy followed Thomas into the Republican Party and grew from an intern to a long-term congressman around Thomas.

In 2002, 37-year-old McCarthy was elected to the California House of Representatives. In 2007, he entered the Congress to take over the position of Representative Thomas, and inherited his political legacy.

·McCarthy.

Since he entered Congress, McCarthy has aimed at the throne of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He brought his "interpersonal skills" into full play.

For example, McCarthy can name all members’ families and even know the birthdays of members’ children. He often appears in non-work places such as the National Assembly Gym, creating opportunities to "bump into" colleagues and talk with them. He can always say the right words at the right time to make the other person feel happy.

However, McCarthy, although he got along well in Congress, was not loved. An insider working in the House of Representatives once said to the American media: Everyone knows this sentence-McCarthy really cares only about himself.

In 2013, the American drama "House of Cards" started shooting, and kevinspacey fowler, the leading actor, found McCarthy to learn from the scriptures. McCarthy later admitted that he had taken Spacey to "experience life" in Congress. Spacey concluded: "The politicians on Capitol Hill are all bad actors."

·Stills of House of Cards.

A "failed country"

This time, it was Matt Gates, a Republican Congressman from Florida, who proposed to recall McCarthy.

Gates has a long history of not liking McCarthy.

In January this year, when McCarthy sprinted for the position of Speaker, Gates was the biggest obstacle.

After the mid-term elections, the Republican Party won 222 seats and successfully controlled the House of Representatives. As the Republican leader of the House of Representatives, McCarthy should have no suspense in taking over as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

However, the original "going through the motions" vote was deadlocked for four days, and McCarthy did not become the speaker until the fifteenth round of voting.

·McCarthy was still not elected after the eleventh round of voting.

In the fourteenth round of voting, at the critical moment when McCarthy was only one vote away from being elected, Gates once again cast an abstention vote.

Seeing Gates "spoiling the game", McCarthy turned pale with anger and got up and went to him to persuade him to change his position. But gates didn’t give in at all, and he held out his finger and choked with McCarthy.

·On January 6, 2023, on the fourth day of the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, McCarthy and Gates quarreled.

In the end, McCarthy was barely elected by one vote, which was behind the compromise he made by abandoning his dignity. One of the compromises is that McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold for initiating a motion to recall the Speaker of the House of Representatives-any member of the House of Representatives can propose it, instead of the previous requirement of obtaining the support of a majority of members of one party.

These compromises were called "the devil’s deal" by the Washington Post. Democratic Rep. McGovern sarcastically said: "McCarthy has given up everything, including dignity."

Wearing shackles, McCarthy became the speaker. I just didn’t expect that the speaker who was elected after 15 rounds of voting was dismissed after one round of voting.

It is worth mentioning that Gates, who constantly advocates putting "shackles" on McCarthy, comes from the far-right liberal party group.

This is a group composed of far-right Republican lawmakers who advocate conservatism and small government, and support budget cuts and decentralization of the House of Representatives. Of the 20 Republican lawmakers who opposed McCarthy’s election as Speaker, 19 were closely related to the Liberal Party. Of the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy, six were members of the Liberal Party.

The number of liberal party members is not large, but the victory lies in unity. If more than 80% of the internal members are against a proposal, others will choose to follow the ticket.

·Before McCarthy took office on January 7th this year, Matt Gates made a speech against McCarthy on January 6th local time.

Lu Xiang believes that the Liberal Party actually inherited the "mantle" of the Tea Party.

Previously, a landmark event of Republican infighting occurred in 2015. At that time, the Tea Party forced john boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives and a Republican, to resign, and the situation was exactly the same as this one.

"The liberal party group is like a small group in the majority party, and it can also be understood as a small shareholder in a large company, and it is a decisive minority shareholder." Lu Xiang believes that the small party groups differentiated within the majority party can achieve the role of "the majority obeys the minority"-although you can’t do anything big, you can’t do anything.

It is difficult for the two parties to cooperate with each other, the internal struggles among political parties continue, and minority groups hold the decision-making power … The American media described the Republicans in the House of Representatives as a "failed country".

Before the new speaker took office, McCarthy temporarily appointed his confidant Patrick McHenry as the interim speaker. The BBC believes that whoever succeeds McCarthy will face a broken mess.

How to deal with the mess for the time being, mchenry’s new official took office, and issued a written order, demanding that former US House Speaker nancy pelosi vacate the office of the Capitol immediately, and that the office should return to the right path, "for the use of the Speaker only".

Editor-in-Chief: Qin Hong

Text Editor: Fang Ying

Author: global person Chen Jiali Mao Yufei

Source: vision china

Photo editor: Xu Jiamin