China Crash: The Faltering of Economic Transition
Photograph: Str/AFP/Getty Images from The Guardian. Article by Ralf Ruckus, reposted from Gongchao (September 20, 2015). —– In days of panic selling and bursting bubbles, the Chinese stock markets appear to be a casino of roulette bets on future economic...
Zombie factories, fallout from Black Monday & “the greatest military parade in Chinese history”: News round-up, Sept. 14
Photo by Eric Jenkins-Sahlin, from R&K. Highlights Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy – NY Times, Aug 30 “To protect jobs and plants, the government and its state-owned banks sometimes keep money-losing businesses on life support by...
The Tianjin Explosion: A Tragedy of Profit, Corruption, and China’s Complicated Transition
Photo by EPA. Late into the night on August 12, two massive explosions rocked the Port of Tianjin, immediately killing dozens and injuring hundreds of people. The explosions appear to have been caused by several hundred tons of unsafely stored sodium cyanide, in the...
The capitalist transformation of rural China: Evidence from “Agrarian Change in Contemporary China”
Image by Sim Chi Yin/The New York Times. Despite so much attention being spent on the woes of the Chinese stock market and currency wars, in other fields the Chinese state continues its liberalizing reforms. Over the last few years the state has pushed forward with...
Factory Stories: Conditions and Struggles in Chinese Workplaces
Reposted from Gongchao (July 30, 2015).5 —– Hao Ren, et al. are Chinese worker activists who have been documenting and analyzing the situation and struggles of factory workers in the Pearl River Delta in South China over the past few years. In 2011, Hao...
“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