Papering over crisis: the Chinese stock market plunge and the real economy
In the 1950s, Mao Zedong argued that the US was a paper tiger, that it appears strong but in reality was very weak. He began his argument by noting that the US “owes debts everywhere.” Debt is everywhere to be found in today’s China as well. Underneath the recent...
A Commune in Sichuan? Reflections on Endicott’s “Red Earth”
Reposted from the defunct China Left Review (issue #3, 2010). We’re reposting this old article here for reference because the Chinese version was recently reposted on Groundbreaking (破土), and 金沙水磨坊, and we noticed that the English version is no longer...
Industrial sunsets, gardening sailors, children and pesticides, dogs and meat, poisoned water and tainted fasting: News round-up, June 24
Photo: Reuters Sunset of China’s garment industry? – as the industrial giant comes of age low surplus value and labor intensive industries like garments are being relocated to cheaper regions or technologically upgraded Robotics revolution rocks Chinese textile...
Chasing Shadows: Policing Migrants in Guangzhou’s Urban Villages
By Bridge (小桥). —– While observers of urban villages in China have documented the uneasy processes of urbanizing former agricultural collectives, few have described the everyday discriminatory policing and extractive practices migrant residents face as...
School drones, sinking ships, censored numbers & “the most extensive empire in history”: News round-up, June 9
Image by Pavel Mikheyev for Reuters via qz.com. Highlights The poet who died for your phone – by Emily Rauhala for Time, June 7 “Hundreds of thousands of people travel from China’s countryside to its cities to work in factories, building devices for...
“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