Death in China

Sanjay Reddy | 25 jun

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 | 24 may

This study 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 | 19 apr

后石油时代的农业展望——北朝鲜与古巴的启示

文佳筠 | 07/06

佩里• 安德森俄国访谈

淇奥评论 | 07/02

Women’s Strike:Women’s Unwaged Caring Work

Cory Fischer-Hoffman | 26 apr 06