Feeds for: China studies

Inquiring after theory in China

Arif Dirlik, et al. — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:03:46 +0100

Summer 2008 issue of boundary 2 w/ intro by Dirlik & contributions by Wang Shaoguang, Alex Day, Pun Ngai, Han Shaogong, and Wang Hui, among others

Restructuring and the Historical Fate of China's Working Class

Wang Hui — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:05:33 +0100

Influential literary historian Wang Hui's first investigation into the struggles of the Chinese working class against neoliberal restructuring and dispossession, in his home town of Yangzhou

Class conflicts in the transformation of China

Aufheben — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:19:34 +0100

examines 3 areas where class conflicts have arisen as a result of China's integration as a distinct epicentre in the US-centred world accumulation of capital

Were Revolutions in China Necessary?

Robert Weil — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:57:15 +0100

Is socialist revolution necessary? Under what conditions? How far should it go? If the revolution is “defeated,” was it still worth undertaking? And finally, who gets to decide these questions, and write the history of revolutionary change?

THE BATTLE FOR CHINA'S PAST: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

Gao Mobo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:11:20 +0100

Important new book published by Pluto Press: THE BATTLE FOR CHINA'S PAST: Mao and the Cultural Revolution by Mobo Gao. "A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang’s recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed." Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff

China's not alone in environmental crisis

Joshua Muldavin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:16:07 +0100

Instead of being diverted by the relatively easy and therefore attractive answer of blaming China or any single country for rising greenhouse emissions, we must focus on the real root of the problem: a highly unequal and unsustainable international system of production, distribution, and consumption that insulates winners from losers, and delivers the greatest share of the benefits to a lucky few while jeopardizing the future for everyone else.

Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century

Giovanni Arrighi — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:59:51 +0100

An authoritative exploration of China's emergence as the most dynamic center of economic and commercial expansion in the world today.

The Chinese Road

Richard Walker and Daniel Buck — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:37:42 +0100

The PRC’s breakneck transition to capitalism seen through the prism of 19th-century Europe and America. What lessons might the West’s past hold for China’s future?

Interview with Han Deqiang on Social Costs of Neoliberalism in China

Han Deqiang, Stephen Philion — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:21:43 +0100

Our discussion focused on the impact of China’s 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization and on the social costs, both in and outside of China, of the accelerated neoliberal development that followed that milestone.

Workers' Democracy vs. Privatization in China

Stephen Philion — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:44 +0100

This article focuses on the role of 'workers' democracy' in state-owned enterprises (SOE) and workers' resistance to privatization in China today.

Swimming against the tide: Tracing and locating Chinese leftism online

Andy Yinan Hu — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:58:37 +0100

This thesis explores the resurgence of Chinese leftism online, its historical rationale, characteristics, scopes of influence, space for survival, contributions and limitations, and prospective implications.

Diary

Wang Chaohua — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:32:05 +0100

On 4 June this year, a strange incident occurred. In Chengdu, the small-ads pages of an evening newspaper contained a short item that read: ‘Salute to the steadfast mothers of the 4 June victims.’

Death in China

Sanjay Reddy — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:24:16 +0100

Does the PRC’s staggering economic growth confirm the thesis that ‘wealthier is healthier’? Using life expectancy data from three decades, Sanjay Reddy measures China’s advances against those of other countries—and finds explanations for its relatively poor performance in the marketization of health care and shrinkage of state spending since 1980.

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

Ching Kwan Lee — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:43:14 +0100

This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Providing a broad political and economic analysis of this labor struggle together with fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the Chinese working class as workers' stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.

Mao Meets the Addams Family

John Dolan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:07:51 +0100

Party Quality

Grassroot Observer — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:19:22 +0100

China's Neoliberal Dynasty

Peter Kwong — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:40:25 +0100

China's Great Terror

Jonathan D. Spence — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:37:48 +0100

Jonathan Spence's review of Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals

Privatization and Its Discontents in Chinese Factories

Feng Chen — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:03:09 +0100

With an aggressive implementation of privatization schemes, labour struggles are increasingly permeated by “class consciousness.”

An open letter to the Primate of all Ireland on the Memorial to the China War at St. ...

Ronan Sheehan — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:42:07 +0100

Ronan Sheehan describes an inglorious relic of Irish participation in the Opium War.