“Belt & Road in the Great Game”
Below is the translated overview of a new activist research2 project from the independent Taiwanese collective Events in Focus (焦點事件), with a call for donations to help fund the project. Their perspective differs from ours in some ways,3 but we’ve decided to translate...
The Wandering Earth: A Reflection of the Chinese New Right
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...
Silicosis and the Cold Hand of the State: “To Live” by X$core
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...
Let the fires blaze: Women workers and MeToo
#MeToo in China was hardly a hashtag popularized by celebrities; it was an expression of the post-Feminist Five generation36 finding new ways of organizing within the context of emerging social tensions across the country. Creatively reinterpreting “Me Too” in the...
The Changing Geography of Chinese Industry: Data Brief
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...
“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