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East Lake for Everyone: Records of a Protest Movement in Wuhan, 2010-2014

by chuang | Sep 12, 2022 | Blog

In the first issue of our journal, we introduced the 2010 movement to protect East Lake (东湖) in Wuhan as one of China’s only recent cases we’d heard of where urbanites had attempted to articulate a rural land conflict into a broader struggle, which some of the...

Towards Glorious Development: China’s TV Drama Regulations & the Capitalist Transition, 1986-2015

by chuang | Sep 5, 2022 | Blog

Translations & Introduction by Liju The following excerpts are translations of television drama licensing and content regulations from the People’s Republic of China, promulgated between 1986 and 2015. During this period of roughly thirty years, China underwent...

Heat, Food & Power: News Highlights, July-August 2022

by chuang | Sep 1, 2022 | Blog

This post is the seventh in a series of periodic summaries of highlights from Chinese-language news and social media, offering some analysis of economic trends and the changing character of class struggle in China. Through these posts, we hope to give English readers...

Book Online + Transcript of Interview, “Dirty Work: China, Communism and Social Contagion”

by chuang | Aug 4, 2022 | Blog

The main contents of our book Social Contagion and Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China (Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 2021) is now available to read online here. The print edition may be ordered from AK Press, AK Edinburgh, Display Distribute,...

China FAQ 常见中国问题解答系列 – Wasn’t China a communist country under Mao? 毛的中国不是共产主义国家吗？

by chuang | Jul 23, 2022 | Blog

中文版见本页底部 This is the fourth entry in our ongoing series attempting to give straightforward answers to frequently asked questions about China. In this entry, we summarize some of the main themes from our journal article “Sorghum & Steel,” the first in a three-part...