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If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...
As I pointed out in the article referred to by Prof. Thomson Flynn in NATURE of June 30, p. 1020 (Biol. Rev., 2, 129; 1927), parturition is certainly due to several factors, of which the decline of ...
“Involution” (内卷化) has taken the Chinese internet by storm in the last two years, becoming one of the most commonly used terms online in 2020. It implies a growing sense of futility that many young ...