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On 15 June, the auto division of conglomerate Baoneng published on its Weibo social media account that it had received a 12 billion yuan investment from a state-owned enterprise. Soon after, China Labour Bulletin’s Strike Map recorded a wages in arrears case, capturing comments from Baoneng (...)
, by DAY Meagan
Exhausted and alienated Chinese students and white-collar workers are “lying flat” to register discontent with the status quo. For their protest to produce change, they’ll need to transform individual passivity into collective activity.
In April, an anonymous user on China’s Baidu Tieba platform (...)
, by MENG Siyuan
“Shamate don’t understand the world, nor does the outside world understand shamate,” says director Li Yifan of the subject of his new documentary, a wildly controversial subculture that emerged in China in the late ’00s. His film, We Were Smart (杀马特, 我爱你), gives a rare look into the life and struggles (...)
, by HIOE Brian
This Chinese intellectual clique has demonstrated a strong interest in the work of Nazi thinkers
As tension between the US and China rises, many have looked toward historical metaphors to describe the current state of international affairs. One prominent metaphor that has gained momentum is to (...)
, by SORACE Christian
There has been a lot of ink spilled over recent weeks on the changes to ‘bilingual education’ policy in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) of China, and protests among ethnic Mongolians in response to what is feared might become the first step in the eventual erasure of the Mongolian (...)
Wang Liyi was at home playing mahjong with his relatives when the explosion occurred. The windows of his small village house were blown in and the door was jammed shut. Covering their heads with quilts, Wang’s wife and children managed to crawl through the window to safety before the house (...)
, by HAN Bei
Grassroots media play a crucial role in documenting increasing mobilizations against government power by the working class.
After four years of imprisonment, Lu Yuyu walked out of prison on June 14. People who still recall his name have likely become few and far between in recent years.
His (...)
, by FRIEDMAN Eli
Twenty-first century China is capitalist. This represents a dramatic transformation for a country that had basically eliminated private ownership of the means of production by the end of the 1950s, while engaging in some of the twentieth century’s most radical political experiments during the (...)
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