Fear and Loathing in “the Pacified South”: Conspiracies and SEZs in Vietnam
Image: Protesters marching in downtown Saigon. The front banner reads, “Do not give the SEZs to Red China [Trung Cộng], not even for one day.” Source: Kao Nguyen / AFP From 111 BCE to 968 CE the territory around contemporary Hanoi was ruled by...
Turning out engines
Image: Reuters via Politico.com Pat has been conducting first-hand research on industrial relations in Guangdong’s auto parts sector since 2016. Gavin and Ren interviewed her in 2017. They revised and edited the following text in 2018 for Chuang. The...
Marx Pays a Visit to Foxconn
Translation of an illustrated piece recently circulated among electronics workers in the Pearl River Delta, followed by a commentary by Victor Grant. The Chinese version (马克思来到富士康，他惊呆了！) was originally published last spring on WeiGongHui (微工荟 — “WeChat Union”),...
The Hermit and the Empire: China after the Collapse of the Developmental Regime
Reposted from the Verso Blog (February 6, 2018). The article below is an excerpt from the second issue of Chuǎng, “Red Dust,” scheduled to be released later in 2018. This is a slightly edited version of the introduction to the second part of our three-part economic...
“The Mastermind”: A Third Young Leftist Speaks Out on the November 15th Incident
On November 15, 2017, police[1] stormed into a student reading group at the Guangdong University of Technology and seized six young participants. Two of them, Zhang Yunfan and Ye Jianke, were held at the Panyu Detention Center for a month as suspects for the crime of...
“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