Notes from the Editors, October 2020
October 1, 2020
This special issue of Monthly Review, “China 2020,” is the product of a long period of cooperation with critical Chinese Marxist scholars. This has resulted in an extensive series of… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: China
China 2020: An Introduction
October 1, 2020
The history of capitalism has been punctuated by periodic struggles for hegemony over the world economy, leading to a centuries-long series of world wars.1 In the twenty-first century, all signs… READ MORE
U.S.-China Trade War: Has the Real “Thief” Finally Been Unmasked?
October 1, 2020
Zhiming Long is an associate professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Zhixuan Feng is an assistant professor at Nankai University in Tianjin. Bangxi Li is an associate professor at Tsinghua… READ MORE
Toward Delinking: An Alternative Chinese Path Amid the New Cold War
October 1, 2020
Sit Tsui is an associate professor of the Rural Reconstruction Institute at Southwest University, Chongqing. Erebus Wong is a senior researcher for the Centre for Cultural Research and Development at… READ MORE
Tracing a Trajectory of Hope in Rural Communities in China: Survival Bricolage of Zhoujiazhuang and Puhan Rural Community
October 1, 2020
Lau Kin Chi is program coordinator for the Centre for Cultural Research and Development and an adjunct associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Sit Tsui… READ MORE
Revisiting Collectivism and Rural Governance in China: The Singularity of the Zhoujiazhuang People’s Commune
October 1, 2020
Lau Kin Chi is program coordinator for the Centre for Cultural Research and Development and an adjunct associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China. She… READ MORE
Negotiating Debt: The Making of Puhan Rural Community in North China
October 1, 2020
Introduction “The banks and corporations grow by exploiting the people’s property.” —Zhang Hongshu Sit Tsui is an associate professor of Southwest University in Chongqing, China. Yan Xiaohui is a researcher… READ MORE
India, COVID-19, the United States, and China
September 1, 2020
The Research Unit for political Economy, based in Mumbai, India, publishes the journal Aspects of India’s Economy and a range of research publications in English, Hindi, and other Indian languages…. READ MORE
The Yellow Plague and Romantic Anticapitalism
July 1, 2020
Iyko Day is an associate professor of English and critical social thought at Mount Holyoke College and author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism… READ MORE
The Angler and the Octopus: Kim Jong-un’s Ongoing Peace Offensive
November 1, 2019
Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean peninsula. His most recent work is the entry on… READ MORE