Also known as "lying flat" or "lie-downism," this expression of resistance to involution rose to memedom on Chinese social media in 2021. State-owned media have criticized lie-downism, and some ...

The concept of nèijuǎn (内卷), involution, describes the economic situation ... But after the renowned Chinese doctor Zhang Wenhong stated that China cannot lie flat at this point of the COVID-19 ...