CHUANG

FEBRUARY 21. 2025

Neither Prophets nor Orphans: An Interview with Endnotes

In the meantime, neither orphans of the labour movement, nor prophets of the communism to come, we participate in the class struggle as it is on a daily basis and as it produces theory.

JANUARY 20. 2025

Unhappy is the land that needs heroes

Myanmar’s insurrection condenses the sequence of revolts elsewhere in this century.

JULY 15. 2024

Palestine and “Xinjiang” under Capitalist Rule: An Analysis from the Chinese Left

Liberals call for Uyghur rights but support Israel’s genocide, while tankies clamor for the liberation of Palestine but dismiss the labor camps in Xinjiang as a hoax by US imperialism.

MARCH 8. 2024

Against Pinkwashing : Sinophone Queers and Feminists for Palestine

When we are outraged by the plight of the Chained Woman of Feng County, how can we separate ourselves from our Uyghur sisters?

SEPTEMBER 2. 2023

Preface to Chinese Edition of “In the Camps” + archive of Chuang translations

Racialization… is a historical feature of global capitalism and the imperial economic expropriation on which it depends….

JUNE 18. 2023

An Embassy’s Blood, a March in Beijing, and Chinese Intellectuals in 1999: The Birth of a New Nationalism

The theme of “enlightenment” had been frequently revisited since the socialist era, but “national salvation” was not reactivated until this moment in 1999.

MAY 21. 2023

China FAQ – Isn’t China the world’s sweatshop? ?

China’s job structure is becoming more dependent on the service sector and moving away from agriculture, mining, manufacturing and construction.

APRIL 24. 2023

The End of an Era: Labor Activism in Early 21st Century China

Since this type of activism emerged in the wake of migrant struggles in the coastal export-processing zones, we should not be surprised that state repression could so easily destroy these networks …

APRIL 7. 2023

Beyond the White Paper: An Interview on the Social Elite in Shanghai’s Protests of November 2022

It was unclear whether what was happening was a protest, a memorial, or a large group of shoppers and commuters gawking at the police. So somebody tests the waters and sings the national anthem.