Written by Adam Liebman Four garbage bins for four categories of waste: wet, hazardous, recyclable, and dry. In 2019, news stories about Shanghai residents being forced to sort and deposit their household waste according to these categories rippled through the international…
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Written by Ross Anthony For the past two centuries, a crucial tenant of western proselytising has been liberty by way of free markets – by force, if need be. Given today, most of the world operates according to principles of…
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Written by Jessica Imbach The phenomenal rise of Chinese science fiction since the 1990s coincides not only with China’s transformation into the world’s second largest economy, but also growing global awareness of the environmental crisis. Several contemporary works, including the…
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Written by Editor Our ninth issue explores a variety of themes, topics and visions in the study of the environment and ecologies. We asked contributors to reflect on the various ways in which environment and ecologies are/have been understood, inhabited,…
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Written by Guldana Salimjan In 2019, at a dinner conversation with several established China scholars, I mentioned that it is dangerous for me to return to China and do further research because of the dire situation in Xinjiang. A professor from…
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Written by Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung Corruption within government bureaucracy has been a long-standing problem in China. Unsurprisingly, it is also perceived by the ruling Chinese Communist Party to be an immense threat to the stability of its regime. Around 2012,…
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Written by Dino Ge Zhang This essay is primarily concerned with WeChat groupchats as an epidemiological space. As a backdrop to this discussion, we must start with the statement that WeChat is not a platform of preference in China but…
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Written by Steven F. Jackson Happy. Angry. Inspired. Grateful. The emotions expressed in Chinese propaganda posters between 1949 and 1990 were not subtle or complex, nor for all of the embrace of ‘socialist realism’ in communist art were they realistic. …
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Written by Altman Yuzhu Peng With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world, public health sectors have been placed under the spotlight. We have witnessed growing political interference in recent medical research. In China, where the first known COVID-19 patient…
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Written by Marc Matten For many decades, the visual arts have been a topic in research on modern Chinese history. Propaganda posters, Mao badges, and even material objects have received widespread attention among historians, thereby highlighting that an understanding of…
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