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Chris Reads

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Jan 8

Goodbye for now

Chris Reads is going on hiatus.

Goodbye for now

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Jan 5

2025 in Review: Goodhart’s Law, Introspection, and Going with the Flow

I love “Year in Review” posts. Not only do they lend an air of introspection and reflection to everything, they are also tremendously easy…

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Dec 19, 2025

Fictions:

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Dec 11, 2025

Fakes to dupes to BYD

I’ve noticed every hair salon and spa in Shanghai has a Dyson hairdryer. It didn’t surprise me that much because virtually all the high-end…

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Dec 4, 2025

Left and right in China

Politics in the West is generally described on a left-right spectrum. The Overton window differs from country to country, system to system…

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Nov 28, 2025

It’s all Chinese to me: Part 2

Recently, I met a few clients across Tier 2 cities in China, and the fact that I was raised abroad never came up: I never had to read…

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Nov 20, 2025

iPhone Superiority Complex

Once upon a time, my sister had told me that cross-operating system relationships are generally doomed, and I’ve thought a lot about it…

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Nov 13, 2025

Dear Hemingway

This is a little reflection on my relationship with the works of Ernest Hemingway. I read Naomi Kanakia’s piece entitled The greatest 20th…

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Oct 30, 2025

Midnight in Paris

Often, my previous blog posts serves as talking-fodder for conversations that I have: they are organized and have spent some time…

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Oct 23, 2025

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

“Dude, I don’t think I can be friends with someone as close-minded as you.”

Chris Reads

Chris Reads

Canadian and Chinese, living in China. Writer of essays and short fictional vignettes about current events, philosophy, and China. Drop a comment, I'll read it.

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