{"id":573,"date":"2020-02-28T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/?p=573"},"modified":"2020-02-28T05:38:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:38:02","slug":"li-ziqi-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/2020\/02\/28\/li-ziqi-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Ziqi Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Li Ziqi Podcast by Giuseppe Collia\" width=\"676\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F767826766&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=676&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li Ziqi Podcast<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My name is Giuseppe Collia and you\u2019re listening to the Greta Thunberg Fan Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last Friday, February 21st, 2020, Professor Yang spoke to our Food Studies Capstone Seminar about Chinese YouTuber and social media influence, Li Ziqi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raknife.com\/li-zi-qi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/raknife.com\/li-zi-qi\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We learned that Li Ziqi was born and raised in rural China by her grandparents, having lost her parents to illness and poverty.\u00a0 As she got older, like many Chinese people today, she decided to move to the city to seek better opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And actually, Li Ziqi\u2019s migration to the city is not simply a Chinese phenomenon, but actually a tendency worldwide.\u00a0 In 2007, the number of people worldwide living in urban areas surpassed that of those living in rural areas. The US and more developed countries are at about 80% urban populations while less developed countries are around 50% &#8211; and there\u2019s no sign of stopping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graylinegroup.com\/urbanization-catalyst-overview\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/graylinegroup.com\/urbanization-catalyst-overview\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But these are just trends.\u00a0 Sometimes, people decide to leave the city.\u00a0 In the US, New York City has seen large migrations out.\u00a0 Young people move in looking for nightlife and job opportunities just out of college, but tend to move out when they become middle class families.\u00a0 The fact of the matter is, it\u2019s expensive, chaotic, and largely lawn-free, which for a lot of people\u2019s preferences, is less than ideal when raising a family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/04\/why-is-everyone-leaving-the-city\/521844\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/04\/why-is-everyone-leaving-the-city\/521844\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aften a stint in the city working in restaurants and as a DJ, Li Ziqi also returned to rural life.\u00a0 But she wasn\u2019t a married woman looking for a place to raise her children. In actuality, it was family that harked her home.\u00a0 Her grandfather had died and her grandmother was in poor health. She felt called back to care for her grandmother who had cared so much for her in her formative years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This makes me think about my own situation.\u00a0 My father\u2019s health is also waning and I feel somewhat called to assist him and the family in his care.\u00a0 Currently, my aunt and uncle care for him as I am in college, however as I am soon graduating, I feel pressure to move home to support them all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back home, she began to make videos that she would post online, both on YouTube and on the Chinese equivalent video uploading platform.\u00a0 Her videos today are a beautiful process of making food from scratch, sometimes from foraged or farmed ingredients, fermented at home, cooked and plated with incredible intent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people see this as a poor representation of China.\u00a0 Li Ziqi paints a beautiful picture of rural China where many others live in poverty.\u00a0 Others think that Li Ziqi is creating an honorable outward facing image of China, presenting it well to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another representation in this case is the simplicity of Chinese culture and the care for family.\u00a0 The US is generally considered to be an individualistic society, putting a lot of influence on personal success, while China has historically been more collective, valuing the family.\u00a0 However research seems to suggest that China is becoming more individualistic in a time of rapid socioeconomic and political change in China.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3839668\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3839668\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li Ziqi returned home to care for her grandmother, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and I too feel the pressure to move home to care for my father. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Is this a poor representation of new Chinese individual tendencies, or is this simply the tail end of a collective one?\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will I go home to care for my father after graduation, or pursue my own life and ambitions?\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is there right and wrong to morality here, or are these simply differing points of view based upon lived experience?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Ziqi Podcast &nbsp; My name is Giuseppe Collia and you\u2019re listening to the Greta Thunberg Fan Club. &nbsp; Last Friday, February 21st, 2020, Professor Yang spoke to our Food Studies Capstone Seminar about Chinese YouTuber and social media influence, Li Ziqi.\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/raknife.com\/li-zi-qi\/ &nbsp; We learned that Li Ziqi was born and raised in rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giuseppe-collia","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/food-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}