A New Silk Road, anti-pollution struggle in the hinterland, fiscal easing to warm the cooling economy and weapons clinking in Southeast Asia – weekly news update, April 20
Photo from the New York Times article linked below Geopolitics of the Silk Road – Chinese government plans massive investments in an attempt to build a new logistics structure across Asia, Africa and Europe China is investing $46 billion to carve out a...
Screwing Screws on the Assembly Line
In response to the interest in Chinese worker poetry stimulated by the late Foxconn poet Xu Lizhi, Chuang is continuing to translate poetry by Chinese workers. Zhou Qizao is a wandering proletarian who has worked in and around Shenzhen since 2004. He was then 19. In...
5 feminists released! Also: environmental struggles and the Great Cannon (News Update, April 13)
Photo from an April 12 demo in Hong Kong calling on Beijing to release the Women’s Day Five. Below we repost some selections from Sinocism’s April 12 newsletter. But first, here are a few important items not mentioned there: English China...
“This society is creating angry youth”: memoir of a punk in Wuhan
By Pengpeng (鹏鹏) from The Drifters (浪人乐队), translated by Guiling (归零). Original Chinese reposted below (can also be found on Pengpeng’s QQ space). Also see “The Alternative Education of a Chinese Punk” by Tang Shui’en, and “An Interview with Wu...
Another Shoe Strike, the Silk Road, and a Smashed-up High School: News Update, April 5th
Photo from New York Times article “China Anticorruption Drive Moves Toward Next Phase With Zhou Indictment” Unrest “Yet another shoe factory revolt: strike of 10,000 suppressed in Zhongshan” translation by Pancho Sanchez of 《广东中山近万工人罢工游行遭镇压》(“Strike...
“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