Bend Your Knees: The Rise of China’s Ayi State – General

chinadivide.com — I have family visiting this week, and as usual one quarter of my living room has turned into a suitcase ghetto. I was sitting on the sofa watching the cats play “King of the Hill” on the luggage mountain when my eyes were drawn to a bright orange tag on one of the larger bags. The tag depicts a person (it’s actually a cartoon stick figure) bending at the knees, with back straight, holding a large rectangular object, presumably a refrigerator or large screen LCD TV that an eager tourist was bringing back from a shopping junket to Asia. The tag has the word “HEAVY” in bold across the top, with “BEND YOUR KNEES” and an arrow pointing to the bended knees of the stick figure towards the bottom.

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Bend Your Knees: The Rise of China’s Ayi State

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