by chuang | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog
In the 1950s, Mao Zedong argued that the US was a paper tiger, that it appears strong but in reality was very weak. He began his argument by noting that the US “owes debts everywhere.” Debt is everywhere to be found in today’s China as well. Underneath the recent...
by chuang | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog
Reposted from the defunct China Left Review (issue #3, 2010). We’re reposting this old article here for reference because the Chinese version was recently reposted on Groundbreaking (破土), and 金沙水磨坊, and we noticed that the English version is no longer...
by chuang | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog
Photo: Reuters Sunset of China’s garment industry? – as the industrial giant comes of age low surplus value and labor intensive industries like garments are being relocated to cheaper regions or technologically upgraded Robotics revolution rocks Chinese textile...
by chuang | Jun 12, 2015 | Blog
By Bridge (小桥). —– While observers of urban villages in China have documented the uneasy processes of urbanizing former agricultural collectives, few have described the everyday discriminatory policing and extractive practices migrant residents face as...
by chuang | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog
Image by Pavel Mikheyev for Reuters via qz.com. Highlights The poet who died for your phone – by Emily Rauhala for Time, June 7 “Hundreds of thousands of people travel from China’s countryside to its cities to work in factories, building devices for...
