by chuang | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog
A review of Gary Blank, Is the East Still Red? Socialism and the Market Economy (Winchester: Zero Books, 2015). Gary Blank’s Is the East Still Red? Socialism and the Market Economy makes the intriguing argument that reform-period China (1978 to the present) is not...
by chuang | May 30, 2015 | Blog
Chuang posts round-ups of China-related news about once a fortnight. Image from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhAXGaF_lT4. Highlights China has more than 1 million millionaires CNN Money (May 27) China is now home to more than one million millionaires, thanks...
by chuang | May 26, 2015 | Blog
The following is part 3 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year. See parts one and two. The recruiter for the plastics factory was seated outside the main gate of the...
by chuang | May 20, 2015 | Blog
Chuang posts round-ups of China-related news about twice a month.1 Image from Ign.com. Must… Reflate… China slowdown deepens provincial economic divide – FT.com “The rich provinces and regions — with higher household consumption — are proving more resilient,”...
by chuang | May 18, 2015 | Blog
By R. W. McMorrow. Reposted from Harper’s (7 May 2015). Photo by the author (via Harper’s): Workers napping while they wait for a load of foam to come out of the oven. —– On September 3, 2013, I arrived at a worker’s dormitory in Guangdong,...
