News Update

News Update

Image source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/business/dealbook/in-china-a-building-frenzys-fault-lines.html Chuang will blog a news update about once a week. This is our first installment.   “In China, a Building Frenzy’s Fault Lines” by DAVID BARBOZA, New...
Four years later, still a graveyard of Chinese youth

Four years later, still a graveyard of Chinese youth

Reposted from Nao.10 —– In 2014, on the eve of China’s national day celebrations, scenes recalling those of four years ago appeared in Chinese headlines. Foxconn became known to the world four years ago when thirteen of its young workers jumped to their...
Land grabs in contemporary China

Land grabs in contemporary China

  Photo from http://m.secretchina.com/node/390371. Reposted from Nao (January 6, 2015). 24 Translated for Nao by Pancho Sanchez from 《认识中国的圈地运动》(“Understanding China’s Enclosures”) by 张玉林 (Zhang Yulin, professor of sociology at Nanjing...
Sold on promises: China’s intra-working class exploitation

Sold on promises: China’s intra-working class exploitation

Reposted from Nao.58 —– An interview recorded from memory. This blog is about the upsurges that occur, the cracks that appear in China’s system. But sometimes the picture we give out of a China in revolt is rosy in a way that misses the very deep scarring...