Three Autumn Revolts: Breaking the Ice on China’s “Anti-Lockdown Movement”
Examining tensions between different currents of the November unrest sheds lights on its limits and potential. Translation of mainland left reflections on the events, with our commentary.
《营中记事》节选：《序言》+《两面派》
她说完这句话，学生们都愣住了。“他们看起来很害怕，我意识到自己说错了话，于是做了自我介绍，开始上课。我紧盯着黑板，没有回头去看他们的脸。我不敢转身，因为一些学生在抽泣，几个老人的胡须都被泪水打湿了。我努力让自己平静下来，整堂课都没有回头，只是不停地在黑板上写字和擦字。我讲了四堂课，但感觉好像花了四年时间。”
East Lake for Everyone: Records of a Protest Movement in Wuhan, 2010-2014
At a time when dissident art has become the vanguard of gentrification, this project’s oppositional stance has been its refusal to enter the system of circulation. This is evident In the tension between the confiscation of land and the eviction of its inhabitants, on the one hand, and the project participants’ active withdrawal in order to intervene in that eviction and to maintain that intervention.
Towards Glorious Development: China’s TV Drama Regulations & the Capitalist Transition, 1986-2015
The state is not an external force intervening within the private media sector but is instead the means by which capitalist society reproduces itself, in this case through the sculpting of popular ideology.
Heat, Food & Power: News Highlights, July-August 2022
Seventh in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions, with new section on left platforms.
Book Online + Transcript of Interview, “Dirty Work: China, Communism and Social Contagion”
The Social Contagion book is now available to read online, along with our interview with the Antifada, Cinder Bloc and History against Misery.
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？
Throughout the 1950s–1960s, what we call China’s “socialist developmental regime” supplanted the communist project as more and more was sacrificed to the bottom line of building a national economy.
White Terror, Attacks on Women, Bank Protests, Falling Wages: News Highlights, May-June 2022
Sixth in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
Struggling to Survive in Shanghai and Beyond: News Highlights, April 2022
Fifth in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答系列 – Is China a socialist country? 中国是社会主义国家吗？
China is only a “socialist” country insofar as the meaning of the term “socialism” has become utterly bankrupt. This bankruptcy has mostly occurred through the false equivalence between “socialism” and “development.”
Controlling the Soul’s Thirst for Freedom: News Highlights, March 2022
Fourth in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答系列 – Is China a capitalist country? 中国是资本主义国家吗？
Since money is the lifeblood of capitalist production, this dependence on money for survival is the clearest signal that a population has been incorporated into global capitalism.
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答 – What Do Chinese Workers Think about the CCP? 中国工人如何看待中共？
In college I applied to join the party, but I noticed that our Party Branch Secretary was the most distasteful (庸俗) person in our school, and the “perks” of membership such as precedence in getting a job as a civil servant held no attraction for me, so the whole idea of joining became distasteful.
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答 – Series Introduction 系列序言
The time has come for us to help produce simple, handy and easily reproducible summaries of the communist perspective on China.
Sharing the Shame 与有耻焉：A Letter from Internationalists in China 来自中国大陆国际主义者的一封信
Chinese netizens are unfortunately seen at this time as the loudest supporters of war and Putin. Progressive anti-war voices are muted, and protesters are punished.
Chains of Patriarchy, Death from Overwork, Silenced Critics of War: News Highlights, February 2022
Third in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
Drinking Algae, Folding Beijing, Fighting Lockdowns: News Highlights, January 2022
Second in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
Free the Fujian Six! Open Letter from a Young Maoist Awaiting Prison
At least someone will know there were a few young people in Fujian who dared to speak the truth and went to prison with dignity.
Fake Capital, Persecuted Speculators & Exploited Enterprises: News Highlights, December 2021
First in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
Smart, Disaffected & Unseen: Li Yifan on the Rise & Fall of a Proletarian Subculture
“If you’re not a smart, then you don’t have a history. A life spent on the assembly line doesn’t have any value.”