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    Accenting Accents

    Dec 17, 2020 4 minutes
    By Li Qing
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    To be a “slasher,” a person with multiple occupations, is a recent popular concept among young Chinese. However, Xu Kaifei has been doing this 20 years before the trend started.

    Xu is a new media journalist living in Haikou, Hainan Province in south China. But the 36-year-old is better known as a rapper. His stage name is Jin’anzai.

    Xu’s high school years were filled with pop songs from Hong Kong, written in the Cantonese dialect, which is mostly spoken in south China, including Hong Kong. Listening to them, he realized that few people used the Hainan dialect to write songs. In 2008, he wrote a rap song, , meaning

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