The East is not red
A review of Gary Blank, Is the East Still Red? Socialism and the Market Economy (Winchester: Zero Books, 2015). Gary Blank’s Is the East Still Red? Socialism and the Market Economy makes the intriguing argument that reform-period China (1978 to the present) is not...
A million millionaires, but continued economic slowdown, repression & overseas expansion: News update, May 29
Chuang posts round-ups of China-related news about once a fortnight. Image from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhAXGaF_lT4. Highlights China has more than 1 million millionaires CNN Money (May 27) China is now home to more than one million millionaires, thanks...
Dagong Diary, Part 3: Plastic
The following is part 3 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year. See parts one and two. The recruiter for the plastics factory was seated outside the main gate of the...
Reflation efforts, collapsing glaciers, gold poisoning, and the dark side of the moon: News round-up, May 20
Chuang posts round-ups of China-related news about twice a month.1 Image from Ign.com. Must… Reflate… China slowdown deepens provincial economic divide – FT.com “The rich provinces and regions — with higher household consumption — are proving more resilient,”...
The Barracks Are Cast of Iron: Working in a Chinese foam factory
By R. W. McMorrow. Reposted from Harper’s (7 May 2015). Photo by the author (via Harper’s): Workers napping while they wait for a load of foam to come out of the oven. —– On September 3, 2013, I arrived at a worker’s dormitory in Guangdong,...
“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