My Wife Is From a Thousand Years Ago - Ch. 13

[MangaDex]

 

[Ant1989]

Bullshit. You have just said that there are ways to confirm if someone is using a fake ID, like the fingerprints, so getting new IDs won't help them at all since they would be cross-referenced in the databanks. There's no freaking way they'd escape with that. Besides, one could simply kill and steal the ID o someone else if such cross-references weren't done, and it would be the same, it's not like people keep the same face all their lives. And while they aren't approaching the topic for obvious reasons (CCP), there are millions of people in that situation right in China, though those may be able to provide the parents, or maybe not, if they are dead or without IDs as well. So this explanation for such a crazy control is bullshit propaganda trying to avoid the CCP fury.

 

[Pokari]

Bullshit. You have just said that there are ways to confirm if someone is using a fake ID, like the fingerprints, so getting new IDs won't help them at all since they would be cross-referenced in the databanks. There's no freaking way they'd escape with that. Besides, one could simply kill and steal the ID o someone else if such cross-references weren't done, and it would be the same, it's not like people keep the same face all their lives. And while they aren't approaching the topic for obvious reasons (CCP), there are millions of people in that situation right in China, though those may be able to provide the parents, or maybe not, if they are dead or without IDs as well. So this explanation for such a crazy control is bullshit propaganda trying to avoid the CCP fury.

I was actually half-convinced by this chapter that this comic is deliberately using this device to point out how bullshit China's problems are. I could be wrong, but...

Like we've covered, through her as a medium, the subtle terror of random identity checks, China being the most terrifying of surveillance states, and now what happens to the (approximately 8 million?) 'unregistered citizens' who get cut off completely from living as human beings in practice. I don't think I've read a manhua from inside China that skirts anywhere near those topics before.

And sure, it's framing it somewhat as "problems for a time-traveler which of course would not affect the modern, good civic citizen!", but as long as you have a brain it also makes it clear that that's not really the case.

 

[themangaweeaboo]

It's fascinating reading literature from the perspective of someone inside a mass surveillance state.