Beijing Review

HEALING THE HIDDEN HURT

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin; like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

When Nana (username), a blogger on China’s wildly popular lifestyle and e-commerce app Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book), first heard the lyrics to American singer Katy Perry’s 2010 song Firework, the words immediately resonated with her. “Especially after a long day at work, constantly being bombarded with comments from a ‘not so nice’ boss and being annoyed by colleagues. Those moments made me want to instantly recharge,” she wrote on a poster published on October 19 to promote her latest livestream groupchat themed Self-Care on the platform, which mainly targets millennials and Gen Zs.

“Sometimes, it almost seems impossible to have a little ME time between all the tasks we need to accomplish in a day,” she added in a post on

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