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Currency of the Week: Panbucks

The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.

Pānbì 潘币

A fictional currency invented by netizens to mock property tycoon Pan Shiyi and simultaneously express disgust with the housing