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Asia’s soft power has been growing for years. But ‘Chinamaxxing’is different
This article may be meeting you at a very Chinese time in your life.
At least, if you’ve spent enough time recently on social media, where the phenomenon of “Chinamaxxing†has swept feeds with videos of people sipping hot water, shuffling around the house in slippers and donning a viral Adidas jacket resembling historic Chinese fashion.
These things, content creators joke, will help you “become Chinese†– reflecting a growing Western fascination with Chinese culture and aesthetics.
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“Morning routine as a new Chinese baddie,†one TikTok creator captioned a video in which he does a series of traditional Chinese exercises. Another video, viewed more than 2.4 million times as of late February, shows the creator boiling apples to make fruit tea – a supposedly old-school Chinese elixir for gut health.
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Hot water, boiled apples, and house slippers: Why some Americans are going all in on 'Chinamaxxing'
"You met me in a very Chinese time in my life."
That line has been popping up across TikTok feeds as non-Chinese creators film themselves boiling apples, sipping hot water, practicing Qigong — a traditional Chinese martial art — and soundtracking it all with traditional Chinese instrumentals or clips from Mulan.
"We are going to drink hot water every day, first thing in the morning," said Miami-based TikTok user Simplysashanoel. "It helps with bloating, helps with skin," she added in the video detailing her attempt to become a "Chinese baddie."
"Our new year starts on February 17," she said, referring to the first day of the Lunar New Year. "We're wearing house slippers."
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