Social Contagion
The Furnace Wuhan is known colloquially as one of the “four furnaces” (四大火炉) of China for its oppressively hot humid summer, shared with Chongqing, Nanjing and alternately Nanchang or Changsha, all bustling cities with long histories along or near the Yangtze river...
The Divided God
The following was written at the request of Reignite Press. A Chinese version from Reignite is now available here. In addition, a second translation partially based on the first, but in a different style can be found here. -Chuang Since the Arab Spring in 2011, the...
Trade War or Redistribution of Wealth? (Wildcat on China at the End of 2019)
Below is a revised and expanded translation of “Umverteilung oder Handelskrieg?” from issue #104 (Winter 2019/2020) of the German magazine Wildcat—part 3 of their series on trends and struggles in China since 2018. (The English version of part 2 was published here as...
Summer in Smoke
The frontlines are organized anonymously. People pay cash for SIM cards to register temporary phone numbers on encrypted messaging apps like Telegram, where individuals sign up for tasks like building barricades or disabling traffic lights. In contrast to black blocs...
“In this way, our account drew on Jacques Camatte as much as TC to ask: How did Marxism become a theory of modernization? How did the theory of revolution against capitalism become a theory of how to carry out industrialization...” | @chuangcn interview w/ @endnotesjournal