by chuang | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog
Below is the translated overview of a new activist research1 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,2 but we’ve decided to translate...
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 generation35 finding new ways of organizing within the context of emerging social tensions across the country. Creatively reinterpreting “Me Too” in the...
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...
