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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent

Halloween costumes in Shanghai poke fun at Chinese authorities

Hazmat suit costumes were popular in the Shanghai halloween parade
Hazmat suit costumes were popular in the Shanghai halloween parade. Photograph: Costfoto/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Halloween revellers in Shanghai have poked fun at the Chinese authorities with their costumes, dressing up as Covid prevention workers, surveillance cameras and China’s falling stock market.

Videos posted on social media showed police shepherding away people with particularly subversive costumes on Tuesday night, including one dressed as Lu Xun, a Chinese writer from the early 20th century whose fable about a useless scholar has become a meme for China’s unemployed youth.

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