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Feeling burned out? There’s a word for that in Mandarin Chinese

December 10, 2025

By Emily Feng

"Involution," an obscure term used in agricultural economics, leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part of Chinese government policymaking.

How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part of Chinese government policymaking.

Source:: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/10/nx-s1-5633319/word-of-week-involution-mandarin

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