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 ===== The world at your doorstep =====
-[[store-courtyard1.jpg|Storefronts in World Square, downtown Sydney]]
+{{:store-courtyard2.jpg|Storefronts in World Square, downtown Sydney}}
 ===== Tune in next time… =====
-[[comingsoon.jpg|A temporary wall as advertisement in World Square, downtown Sydney]]
+{{:comingsoon.jpg|A temporary wall as advertisement in World Square, downtown Sydney}}
 ===== We got apples =====
-[[apple.jpg|Apples on display in a supermarket at World Square.]]
+{{:apple.jpg|Apples on display in a supermarket at World Square.}}
 ===== And carrots =====
-[[|Prepacked carrots on display in a supermarket at World Square]]
+{{:carrot.jpg|Prepacked carrots on display in a supermarket at World Square}}
 ===== From our kitchen to yours =====
-[[marion.jpg|A shelf of boxes of readymade mixes]]
+{{:marion.jpg|A shelf of boxes of readymade mixes}}
 ===== Food is sacred =====
-[[sacred.jpg|A shelf of boxes of various dried beans and grains, each bearing a label, “Food is sacred”]]
+{{:sacred.jpg|A shelf of boxes of various dried beans and grains, each bearing a label, “Food is sacred”}}
 ===== Daigou [代购], personal shoppers or “model consumers”? =====
-Daigou [代购] purchase goods on behalf of overseas clients, and document their purchasing online.
+Daigou [代购] purchase goods on behalf of overseas clients, and document their purchasing online (Xiao and Mantesso 2019; Zhou 2017).
 They also produce live streams while they shop, watched by many more than just their customers.
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 “Haul videos” on Youtube allow us to see daigou in a wider frame.
-Destiny Marie, dir. 2022. I Spent over 2,000 Dollars Shopping (Haul). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZR4yQTQKg.
+* Destiny Marie, dir. 2022. //I Spent Over 2,000 Dollars Shopping (Haul)//. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZR4yQTQKg. (This example may in fact be satire, but if it is, it’s good.)
-The producers of haul videos merely display what they have bought, emphasizing the sheer quantity and the total spent, like a score. (This example may in fact be satire, but if it is, it’s good.)
+The producers of haul videos merely display what they have bought, emphasizing the sheer quantity and the total spent, like a score.
 You can score points on social media, either as a daigou, blogger, or haul-video maker, but who benefits?
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 ===== References and further reading =====
 Marx, Karl. (1867) 1972. “Capital, Vol. 1 [Selections].” In //The Marx-Engels Reader//, edited by Robert C. Tucker, 309–43. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
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 Woronov, T. E. 2016. “‘Model Consumers’: Beauty Bloggers, Everyday Experts, and Governmentality in Urban China.” In //New Mentalities of Government in China//. Routledge.
+Xiao, Bang and Sean Mantesso. 2019. “‘You Must Embrace Them’: Inside the Billion-Dollar Daigou Industry.” ABC News, July 30, 2019. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-31/chinese-daigou-changing-influencing-australian-business/11221498.
+Zhou, Christina. 2017. “Why China Is Tuning in to Live Streams from Aussie Shops.” ABC News, September 1, 2017. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-02/daigou-gift-shops-products-for-china/8812336.
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