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...
The poet who died for your phone
Last year some of us translated poems by and an obituary about Xu Lizhi, the migrant worker poet (打工诗人) who committed suicide last National Day (October 1, 2014) while working at Foxconn. Mainstream English media picked up the story and widely reposted our...
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...
“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