# Uniform (Zhifu)

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Podcast: [Empathy Machines](https://stenobird.com/podcast/empathy-machines-6880028)
Published: 2025-08-19T13:16:10+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scottjohnandersonsemail/episodes/Uniform-Zhifu-e371p4s
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Duration seconds: 4986

## Resource

Economic unrest roils central China's Shaanxi Province: local factories are merging, thugs threaten managers, personnel records get lost, and workers are without protections such as health insurance. The police and much of society are surly. Xiao Jian, a mild young man whose father is ill, works in the family street stall doing pressing and tailoring. A laundered police-officer's shirt goes uncollected, and Xiao Jian puts it on: it opens doors. Wearing it, he chats up a clerk, Zheng Shasha, and takes her out. He extracts fines from drivers who violate traffic laws. In these tough times, he's not the only one with two identities. How long can he sustain it? Diao Yinan. 2003.

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