Unhappy is the land that needs heroes
Essay by Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung, written for Endnotes and Chuǎng.24 Do not all uprisings, without exception, have their roots in the wretched isolation of men from the community (Gemeinwesen)? Does not every uprising necessarily presuppose isolation? Would the...
Palestine and “Xinjiang” under Capitalist Rule: An Analysis from the Chinese Left
Below is our translation of an article by Canyu (惭语 “Shameful Words”). The author is a communist from mainland China who works with the cross-border network of internationalist activists whose collective piece “Against Pinkwashing: Sinophone Queers and Feminists for...
Against Pinkwashing 反对粉红清洗: Sinophone Queers and Feminists for Palestine 华人酷儿女权撑巴勒斯坦声明
中文原文见本页底部 Here we present our English translation of a letter by a network of feminist and queer activists from China and Taiwan, followed by the Chinese original. An abridged pamphlet version is being published simultaneously on their Instagram and...
Preface to Chinese Edition of “In the Camps” (now online) + archive of Chuang translations 《营中纪事》简体中文版上线
中文版见本页底部 We are pleased to announce our publication of a simplified Chinese edition of In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler (Columbia Global Reports, 2021).92 We recommended this book for translation because it provides the best...
An Embassy’s Blood, a March in Beijing, and Chinese Intellectuals in 1999: The Birth of a New Nationalism
As part of our research on internationalist left currents in early 21st century China, we present the following translation of an article published on Initium in June 2019 by the mainland journalist and independent researcher Wu Qin, then writing...
旧文新译发布:《共产化与价值形式理论》，载《既非先知也非孤儿》— ‘值形式理论和共产化理论之间存在隐含的共通性，使得两者可以建设性地互相启明。我们将在此处考察这两个趋势之间在历史上的并行之处和交汇点。’
https://chuangcn.org/books/endnotes/1-2/
“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