A man with a giant tattoo of a carp jumping over a dragon is making a video of himself standing in the water, while his high school classmates smoke nearby. It also mentions China's economic struggles and how the population's growing enthusiasm for being beside the seaside points to changing relationships between state and society in China over the past 70 years.

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