Echoes of Chengdu’s Tian’anmen
Image via Louisa Lim/NPR. “Around Tianfu Square, buses were burning, fire was set to police cars as well. The riots in Chengdu, you don’t know about that?” I was puzzled when, about two months ago, a cab driver started talking to me about the protests in...
Bicycle couriers in China’s own “logistics revolution”
Image from 浙江在线. Translation by Chuang of《快递员可以有多惨？》(How bad can it get for couriers?) by 林海, from the 工业区观察 (Industrial Zone Observer) WeChat feed, April 6, 2016. (Original Chinese reposted below.) With the decline of exports and manufacturing over the past few...
From Illusion to Empire: The Creation of the Chinese Economy
By the Chuang collective, reposted from the Verso Books Blog. —– The selection below comes from our centerpiece article on the socialist era, “Sorghum and Steel: The Socialist Developmental Regime and the Forging of China,” the first in a three part...
Women’s Day & the Feminist Five a year on
Image by Julie Makinen from LA Times. One year ago (March 7, 2015), ten women in three Chinese cities were taken into police custody for planning actions to raise awareness about sexual harassment on public transportation. Five–Li Tingting (李婷婷), Zheng Churan...
Overcoming mythologies: An interview on the Chuang project
Lorenzo Fe from GlobalProject.info asked us a few questions in response to “No Way Forward, No Way Back,” the preview article from the forthcoming first issue of our journal. Below are our answers. The Italian translation will be posted on...
“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