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...
Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins
The following is part 2 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 part 1 here. —– On the morning of the eighth, the hiring signs went up all throughout...
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 + march of nearly 10,000 workers suppressed in Zhongshan, Guangdong”) from Boxun.com, March 23. (If you know any more information, please share in the comments section below. This is the only...
News Update
Chuang posts a news update blog about once a week. “China Raids Offices of Rights Group as Crackdown on Activism Continues,” By ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times, March 26, 2015,...
How “feminism” became a household word this Spring Festival
Translation by Wv of a detailed account of last month’s debate and ensuing campaign to cancel CCTV’s annual Spring Festival Gala, followed by the previously unpublished original in Chinese:《女权反春晚之舆论战盘点》(“A blow-by-blow account of the feminist war of words...
“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