by chuang | Aug 30, 2019 | Blog
In recent years, right-wing discourse has become more and more common on the Chinese internet, particularly among young people. There seems to be a general perception among left-leaning activists (but particularly students, who tend to be involved in more discursive...
by chuang | Aug 18, 2019 | Blog
The net is widening by the day for anyone who sticks their neck out for workers in China. Over the past few months, those who have voiced support for a network of silicosis workers from Hunan province have been arrested in two waves of coordinated police actions that...
by chuang | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog
#MeToo in China was hardly a hashtag popularized by celebrities; it was an expression of the post-Feminist Five generation1 finding new ways of organizing within the context of emerging social tensions across the country. Creatively reinterpreting “Me Too” in the face...
by chuang | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog
In recent years, probably the central topic of China journalism has been the country’s slowing GDP growth rate, resulting in renewed predictions of looming crisis and impending political collapse. Though apparently tracking the cutting edge of economic trends, reports...
by chuang | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog
We’re reposting this from SupChina.com (where it was published on July 3) with their permission because we find it the most informative, as well as profoundly moving, set of personal accounts of the Ürümqi events of July 2009, of which one of these interviewees...
by chuang | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
The print edition of our journal’s second issue (Frontiers) and the revised reprint of issue 1 (Dead Generations) were finally mailed from the UK to Patreon sustainers throughout Europe, Asia and Oceania last Monday, July 1st.1 The UK branch of AK Press has...