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• On the Left (China)

  China: Radical left students harassed, threatened

  6 March, by War on Want

  Left-feminist student group dissolved by force and members facing harassment, prison.

  In November 2017, police in China stormed a left-wing student reading group at the Guangdong University of Technology where eight students were arrested and jailed on trumped up charges. Since then, their families have been harassed and intimidated. Sun Ting Ting – the only woman released on bail – has been forced to report into police station, and in February 2018 she was violently removed from a train when (...)

• On the Left (China)

  The Primary Contradiction – The Left in China, “New Maoists” and Nationalism

  2 February 2015, by FRIEDMAN Eli

  China’s leftist revival is overstated. The country’s new “Maoists” cede too much ground to nationalism and the market.
  “It’s a golden period to be a leftist in China.” At least that was the assessment of Minzu University of China professor and well-known Maoist Zhang Hongliang in a recent New York (...)

• On the Left (China)

  A Chinese Alternative? Interpreting the Chinese New Left Politically

  3 July 2011, by CARTER Lance

  In a country where the Communist Party has dominated “left-wing” politics for over sixty years, dissent has often been deemed a “right-wing” or “counterrevolutionary” affair. Subsequently, many dissidents and parts of the general population have embraced the term “right-wing” as implying something (...)

• On the Left (China)

  How Socialist Is the Chinese Party State? On Wang Hui’s vision of alternatives

  1 July 2011, by AU Loong-Yu

  Review of Wang Hui, The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, London: Verso, 2010, 272 pp., $26.95. The publisher of Wang Hui’s book described it as follows: “arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang (...)