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Research paper thumbnail of Mode switching: the state, market, and anti-Covid-19 shadow of socialism in China

Dialectical Anthropology, 2020

The everyday mode of business as usual is a mode of continued medical marketization, accompanied... more The everyday mode of business as usual is a mode of continued medical marketization, accompanied by state fragmentation rather than state cohesion. It was the Covid-19 outbreak that enabled state cohesion for crisis mobilization and for the suspension of business as usual.

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Research paper thumbnail of China's soybean crisis: the logic of modernization and its discontents

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2016

Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop, this contribut... more Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop,
this contribution examines China’s dramatic turn from having been a soybean net
exporter, up until the mid-1990s, to being the biggest importer of genetically
modified (GM) soybeans, since 2000. With China’s growing soybean imports,
domestic soybean production has experienced a drastic fall, creating an outcry about
a ‘soybean crisis’ in China. This paper examines competing interpretations about
China’s soybean imports and how a wide arrange of heated debates and critical
reflections have emerged about China’s position in globalization, the role of the state
in food security, the safety of GM foods, consumer rights, what constitutes scientific
authority, and the power of transnational corporations. In these debates, Chinese
critics have very different views about the US and South America, where significant
GM soybeans are produced for export to China.

Keywords: food security; GMO safety; discursive power; consumer rights; food
sovereignty

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Research paper thumbnail of Agrarian Marxism

The Journal of Peasant Studies , 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2020

Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic problema... more Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic problematic. The state has practiced a strategic essentialism with regard to 'peasantry.' It has actively taken 'peasantry' as a temporary unifying master-category while at the same time working with the differences within the category for the long-term goal of transformation. The post-Mao contradiction, emphasizing the protection of the 'peasantry' while encouraging differentiation, offers contemporary struggles both opportunity and frustration. This essay examines how the rural has been conceptualized in reform-era policies and discusses two cases of scholar activism, the rural reconstruction movement and the food sovereignty network in China.

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Research paper thumbnail of Critical Asian Studies_ Bottom-up capitalism as a challenge for social movements: a conversation with Tania Murray Li

In her book Land’s End (Duke University Press, 2014), Tania Murray Li1 examines how capitalist re... more In her book Land’s End (Duke University Press, 2014), Tania Murray Li1 examines how
capitalist relations emerged among indigenous highlanders in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The
book details the process through which highlanders privatized their common land, and
kin and neighbors became differentiated into winners and losers. Far from signaling the
march of progress, Li shows that when highlanders engaged in development efforts by
planting cacao as a cash crop, those who lost out become landless and jobless. While
this story is particular to highlanders in Indonesia, it has deeper implications and wider
resonances. The “dead end” encountered by Indonesian highlanders not only challenges
the mainstream narratives of development, but also presents a challenge for agrarian
social movements. These movements focus their attention on the grotesqueness of corporate
power, which can be called “capitalism from above,” but have remained silent about
everyday capitalism that emerges from below. In this conversation, we discuss the implications
of her book and its message for social movements.

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Research paper thumbnail of The China Quarterly: African Perspectives on China–Africa Links

Scholars and the international media often allude to a putative “African view” of Africa–China li... more Scholars and the international media often allude to a putative
“African view” of Africa–China links, constructed from anecdotal evidence. Using random sample and university-based surveys, we elaborate the first empirically based study of what Africans think of their relationships with China. We reach three conclusions. First, African views are not nearly as negative as Western media make out, but are variegated and complex. Second, the survey results are at variance with the dominant Western media representation that only African ruling elites are positive about these links. Third, we find that the dominant variation in African perspectives is by country, compared with variations such as age, education and gender. The differences among countries in attitudes towards China are primarily a function of the extent to which national politicians have elected to raise the “Chinese problem” and, secondarily, the extent of Western media influence in African states.

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Research paper thumbnail of Cultural Anthropology: Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow throu

This article analyzes the phantasmatic production of suzhi (quality) as a new ontological valuati... more This article analyzes the phantasmatic production of suzhi (quality) as a new ontological valuation and abstraction of human subjectivity through examining the linkages between poverty-relief campaigns, labor migration and development. I make three arguments linking value, the predication of the subject, and governmentality in the context of rural-to-urban labor migration in China.

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Research paper thumbnail of Modern China: Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia ''The Beginning of a World Empire''? Contesting the Discourse of

A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been... more A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been central to global discussions of China-in-Africa since the mid-2000s. Based in the West’s putative strategic rivalry with China, the discourse also invokes racial stereotypes about Chinese cruelty and disregard for human life. Focusing on Human Rights Watch’s 2011 attempt to prove China’s firms to be Zambian copper mining’s “worst employers,” we show that the discourse is highly inaccurate: methodological mistakes compound elementary empirical errors, even as the politics of the discourse serve up a synecdoche for the global rise of a monolithic China.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Journal of Peasant Studies: Debating the rural cooperative movement in China, the past and the present Debating the rural cooperative movement in China, the past and the present

Rural cooperatives appear to be flourishing in China. Yet this blossom has been controversial. So... more Rural cooperatives appear to be flourishing in China. Yet this blossom has been controversial. Some contest whether specialized farmer cooperatives should be promoted. They are opposed to the implications and consequences that derive from the growth of such cooperatives. Many criticize that most of the cooperatives thus far developed are ‘fake’ cooperatives. Some propose comprehensive peasant associations
in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a model for emulation. These contestations are about rural cooperatives, but also go quite beyond them. For those passionately involved in the support and critique of rural cooperatives, what is at stake is both rural sustainability and the possibility of China pursuing a third-way development. In
the 1930s, rural cooperatives also blossomed in China, and it was accompanied by heated intellectual debates about the future of China. This paper will examine intellectual perspectives and debates both in the past and at present about rural cooperative development in China. Not only are there some remarkable intellectual parallels between the two, but also both movements have their own structural difficulties. In the face of the rapid agrarian change in China, the 1930s debate might
still shed a light on today’s conundrum.

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Research paper thumbnail of Journal of Contemporary China: Bashing 'the Chinese': contextualizing Zambia's Collum Coal Mine shooting

The 2010 shooting of 13 miners at Zambia’s small, privately-owned ‘Chinese’ Collum Coal Mine (CCM... more The 2010 shooting of 13 miners at Zambia’s small, privately-owned ‘Chinese’ Collum Coal Mine (CCM) has been represented by Western and Zambian politicians and media as exemplifying the ‘neo-colonial’ and ‘amoral’ practices of ‘China’ and ‘the Chinese’ in Africa. CCM has been used to provide a sharp contrast to the supposed ways of the Western
firms that own most of Zambia’s mines. Embedded in racial hierarchy and notions of strategic competition between the West and China, the discourse of the CCM shootings further shapes conceptions of global China and Chinese overseas. While examining all the oppressive conditions that have given rise to protest at the mine, we contextualize the shooting and subsequent conflicts. In analyzing CCM’s marginal and troubled development, we discuss aspects of the 2010 shooting incident known to miners and union leaders, but ignored by politicians and media. We look at the shooting’s political fallout, focus also on the epilogue that was the 2012 CCM riot—in which one Chinese person was murdered and several others seriously injured—and trace the sometimes violent discontent manifested at other foreignowned mines in Zambia since their privatization in the late 1990s. The empirical data for this
detailed study derive from hundreds of documentary sources and interviews with union leaders, workers, officials and others in Zambia from 2011 to 2013.

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Research paper thumbnail of Journal of Agrarian Change: Agrarian Capitalization without Capitalism? Capitalist Dynamics from Above and Below in China

Cooperatives, family farms and dragon-head enterprises are emerging as new subjects of agricultur... more Cooperatives, family farms and dragon-head enterprises are emerging as new subjects of agriculture in China and are being promoted by the Chinese government as engines of agricultural development.The current dynamics of increasing capitalization of agriculture in China has been characterized by scholar Philip Huang as 'Capitalization without Prole-tarianization'.Through case studies, we examine the dynamics of accumulation in Chinese agriculture, as well as the government's agriculture policy shift. We argue that capitalist dynamics exist in Chinese agricultural production and they come from above and below. We also argue that Chinese government's policy shift towards de-peasantization began in the early years of the rural reform.

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Research paper thumbnail of American Ethnologist: Specialization of the Reinterpreting the labor mobility of rural young women in post-Mao China

In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration to the cities before and after the post... more In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration
to the cities before and after the post-Mao
reform. I argue that rural young women's pursuit of
a modern identity during the more recent migration
has to be understood in the context of a
changed rural-urban relationship resulting from
China's postsocialist development in an era of flexible
accumulation. I analyze how a contradiction
between freedom and violence dialectically constitutes
the search for a new, modern subjectivity by
rural young women in China today, [gender, labor
migration, modernity, subjectivity, rural-urban relations]

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Research paper thumbnail of Ethnic and Racial Studies: The discourse of racialization of labour and Chinese enterprises in Africa

A ‘race’ and labour conjunction has been theorized based on Global North investment in the Global... more A ‘race’ and labour conjunction has been theorized based on Global North
investment in the Global South. Chinese enterprising in Africa allows us to
analyse it in a South-South setting. Contrary to dominant discourses, Chinese
employers are not the sole racializers of the African/Chinese interface. Chinese
and Africans, employers and employees, as well as Western actors, coconstitute
racialization, with varied consequences for each. Rhetorical
racialization of African employees by some Chinese employers and African
employee and politicians’ racialization of Chinese, show that South-South
racializations of labour markedly differ from the North-South exemplar.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Journal of Peasant Studies: China's soybean crisis: the logic of modernization and its discontents

Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop, this contribut... more Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop,
this contribution examines China’s dramatic turn from having been a soybean net
exporter, up until the mid-1990s, to being the biggest importer of genetically
modified (GM) soybeans, since 2000. With China’s growing soybean imports,
domestic soybean production has experienced a drastic fall, creating an outcry about
a ‘soybean crisis’ in China. This paper examines competing interpretations about
China’s soybean imports and how a wide arrange of heated debates and critical
reflections have emerged about China’s position in globalization, the role of the state
in food security, the safety of GM foods, consumer rights, what constitutes scientific
authority, and the power of transnational corporations. In these debates, Chinese
critics have very different views about the US and South America, where significant
GM soybeans are produced for export to China.
Keywords: food security; GMO safety; discursive power; consumer rights; food
sovereignty

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Research paper thumbnail of "What's Left of Asia?"

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Jan 1, 2007

Introductory essay to a special issue of "positions" entitled "What's Left of Asia?." This is an ... more Introductory essay to a special issue of "positions" entitled "What's Left of Asia?." This is an inter-asian studies or critical asian studies collection on the history and concept of "asia" within intellectual and cultural history as well as political economy (it features Spivak and Han Yuhai as well as the sorely missed Gunder Frank and Giovanni Arrigihi). Our intro essay also tries to make an argument for re-articulating the "Asia" concept towards the global South.

Table of Contents for the special issue:

Andre Gunder Frank

No Civilization/s: Unity and Continuity in Diversity; or, Multilateral and Entropic Paradigms for the World Today and Tomorrow

Giovanni Arrighi

States, Markets, and Capitalism, East and West

Tani E. Barlow

Asian Women in Reregionalization

Yiman Wang

Screening Asia: Passing, Performative Translation, and Reconfiguration

Urs Matthias Zachmann

Blowing Up a Double Portrait in Black and White: The Concept of Asia in the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Okakura Tenshin

Han Yuhai

Speech without Words

Tobias Hübinette

Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists: The Case of Asian Studies in Sweden

Yan Hairong

Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Research paper thumbnail of Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Research paper thumbnail of Chinese and ‘self-segregation’ in Africa

Asian Ethnicity

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Research paper thumbnail of China's soybean crisis: the logic of modernization and its discontents

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of 阶级的言说和改造——劳心与劳力、性别与阶级之二 = Class utterance and class transformation : second essay on brain work, physical Work, gender, and class

Open Times, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Positions East Asia Cultures Critique, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of Mode switching: the state, market, and anti-Covid-19 shadow of socialism in China

Dialectical Anthropology, 2020

The everyday mode of business as usual is a mode of continued medical marketization, accompanied... more The everyday mode of business as usual is a mode of continued medical marketization, accompanied by state fragmentation rather than state cohesion. It was the Covid-19 outbreak that enabled state cohesion for crisis mobilization and for the suspension of business as usual.

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Research paper thumbnail of China's soybean crisis: the logic of modernization and its discontents

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2016

Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop, this contribut... more Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop,
this contribution examines China’s dramatic turn from having been a soybean net
exporter, up until the mid-1990s, to being the biggest importer of genetically
modified (GM) soybeans, since 2000. With China’s growing soybean imports,
domestic soybean production has experienced a drastic fall, creating an outcry about
a ‘soybean crisis’ in China. This paper examines competing interpretations about
China’s soybean imports and how a wide arrange of heated debates and critical
reflections have emerged about China’s position in globalization, the role of the state
in food security, the safety of GM foods, consumer rights, what constitutes scientific
authority, and the power of transnational corporations. In these debates, Chinese
critics have very different views about the US and South America, where significant
GM soybeans are produced for export to China.

Keywords: food security; GMO safety; discursive power; consumer rights; food
sovereignty

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Research paper thumbnail of Agrarian Marxism

The Journal of Peasant Studies , 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China

The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2020

Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic problema... more Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic problematic. The state has practiced a strategic essentialism with regard to 'peasantry.' It has actively taken 'peasantry' as a temporary unifying master-category while at the same time working with the differences within the category for the long-term goal of transformation. The post-Mao contradiction, emphasizing the protection of the 'peasantry' while encouraging differentiation, offers contemporary struggles both opportunity and frustration. This essay examines how the rural has been conceptualized in reform-era policies and discusses two cases of scholar activism, the rural reconstruction movement and the food sovereignty network in China.

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Research paper thumbnail of Critical Asian Studies_ Bottom-up capitalism as a challenge for social movements: a conversation with Tania Murray Li

In her book Land’s End (Duke University Press, 2014), Tania Murray Li1 examines how capitalist re... more In her book Land’s End (Duke University Press, 2014), Tania Murray Li1 examines how
capitalist relations emerged among indigenous highlanders in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The
book details the process through which highlanders privatized their common land, and
kin and neighbors became differentiated into winners and losers. Far from signaling the
march of progress, Li shows that when highlanders engaged in development efforts by
planting cacao as a cash crop, those who lost out become landless and jobless. While
this story is particular to highlanders in Indonesia, it has deeper implications and wider
resonances. The “dead end” encountered by Indonesian highlanders not only challenges
the mainstream narratives of development, but also presents a challenge for agrarian
social movements. These movements focus their attention on the grotesqueness of corporate
power, which can be called “capitalism from above,” but have remained silent about
everyday capitalism that emerges from below. In this conversation, we discuss the implications
of her book and its message for social movements.

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Research paper thumbnail of The China Quarterly: African Perspectives on China–Africa Links

Scholars and the international media often allude to a putative “African view” of Africa–China li... more Scholars and the international media often allude to a putative
“African view” of Africa–China links, constructed from anecdotal evidence. Using random sample and university-based surveys, we elaborate the first empirically based study of what Africans think of their relationships with China. We reach three conclusions. First, African views are not nearly as negative as Western media make out, but are variegated and complex. Second, the survey results are at variance with the dominant Western media representation that only African ruling elites are positive about these links. Third, we find that the dominant variation in African perspectives is by country, compared with variations such as age, education and gender. The differences among countries in attitudes towards China are primarily a function of the extent to which national politicians have elected to raise the “Chinese problem” and, secondarily, the extent of Western media influence in African states.

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Research paper thumbnail of Cultural Anthropology: Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow throu

This article analyzes the phantasmatic production of suzhi (quality) as a new ontological valuati... more This article analyzes the phantasmatic production of suzhi (quality) as a new ontological valuation and abstraction of human subjectivity through examining the linkages between poverty-relief campaigns, labor migration and development. I make three arguments linking value, the predication of the subject, and governmentality in the context of rural-to-urban labor migration in China.

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Research paper thumbnail of Modern China: Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia ''The Beginning of a World Empire''? Contesting the Discourse of

A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been... more A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been central to global discussions of China-in-Africa since the mid-2000s. Based in the West’s putative strategic rivalry with China, the discourse also invokes racial stereotypes about Chinese cruelty and disregard for human life. Focusing on Human Rights Watch’s 2011 attempt to prove China’s firms to be Zambian copper mining’s “worst employers,” we show that the discourse is highly inaccurate: methodological mistakes compound elementary empirical errors, even as the politics of the discourse serve up a synecdoche for the global rise of a monolithic China.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Journal of Peasant Studies: Debating the rural cooperative movement in China, the past and the present Debating the rural cooperative movement in China, the past and the present

Rural cooperatives appear to be flourishing in China. Yet this blossom has been controversial. So... more Rural cooperatives appear to be flourishing in China. Yet this blossom has been controversial. Some contest whether specialized farmer cooperatives should be promoted. They are opposed to the implications and consequences that derive from the growth of such cooperatives. Many criticize that most of the cooperatives thus far developed are ‘fake’ cooperatives. Some propose comprehensive peasant associations
in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a model for emulation. These contestations are about rural cooperatives, but also go quite beyond them. For those passionately involved in the support and critique of rural cooperatives, what is at stake is both rural sustainability and the possibility of China pursuing a third-way development. In
the 1930s, rural cooperatives also blossomed in China, and it was accompanied by heated intellectual debates about the future of China. This paper will examine intellectual perspectives and debates both in the past and at present about rural cooperative development in China. Not only are there some remarkable intellectual parallels between the two, but also both movements have their own structural difficulties. In the face of the rapid agrarian change in China, the 1930s debate might
still shed a light on today’s conundrum.

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Research paper thumbnail of Journal of Contemporary China: Bashing 'the Chinese': contextualizing Zambia's Collum Coal Mine shooting

The 2010 shooting of 13 miners at Zambia’s small, privately-owned ‘Chinese’ Collum Coal Mine (CCM... more The 2010 shooting of 13 miners at Zambia’s small, privately-owned ‘Chinese’ Collum Coal Mine (CCM) has been represented by Western and Zambian politicians and media as exemplifying the ‘neo-colonial’ and ‘amoral’ practices of ‘China’ and ‘the Chinese’ in Africa. CCM has been used to provide a sharp contrast to the supposed ways of the Western
firms that own most of Zambia’s mines. Embedded in racial hierarchy and notions of strategic competition between the West and China, the discourse of the CCM shootings further shapes conceptions of global China and Chinese overseas. While examining all the oppressive conditions that have given rise to protest at the mine, we contextualize the shooting and subsequent conflicts. In analyzing CCM’s marginal and troubled development, we discuss aspects of the 2010 shooting incident known to miners and union leaders, but ignored by politicians and media. We look at the shooting’s political fallout, focus also on the epilogue that was the 2012 CCM riot—in which one Chinese person was murdered and several others seriously injured—and trace the sometimes violent discontent manifested at other foreignowned mines in Zambia since their privatization in the late 1990s. The empirical data for this
detailed study derive from hundreds of documentary sources and interviews with union leaders, workers, officials and others in Zambia from 2011 to 2013.

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Research paper thumbnail of Journal of Agrarian Change: Agrarian Capitalization without Capitalism? Capitalist Dynamics from Above and Below in China

Cooperatives, family farms and dragon-head enterprises are emerging as new subjects of agricultur... more Cooperatives, family farms and dragon-head enterprises are emerging as new subjects of agriculture in China and are being promoted by the Chinese government as engines of agricultural development.The current dynamics of increasing capitalization of agriculture in China has been characterized by scholar Philip Huang as 'Capitalization without Prole-tarianization'.Through case studies, we examine the dynamics of accumulation in Chinese agriculture, as well as the government's agriculture policy shift. We argue that capitalist dynamics exist in Chinese agricultural production and they come from above and below. We also argue that Chinese government's policy shift towards de-peasantization began in the early years of the rural reform.

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Research paper thumbnail of American Ethnologist: Specialization of the Reinterpreting the labor mobility of rural young women in post-Mao China

In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration to the cities before and after the post... more In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration
to the cities before and after the post-Mao
reform. I argue that rural young women's pursuit of
a modern identity during the more recent migration
has to be understood in the context of a
changed rural-urban relationship resulting from
China's postsocialist development in an era of flexible
accumulation. I analyze how a contradiction
between freedom and violence dialectically constitutes
the search for a new, modern subjectivity by
rural young women in China today, [gender, labor
migration, modernity, subjectivity, rural-urban relations]

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Research paper thumbnail of Ethnic and Racial Studies: The discourse of racialization of labour and Chinese enterprises in Africa

A ‘race’ and labour conjunction has been theorized based on Global North investment in the Global... more A ‘race’ and labour conjunction has been theorized based on Global North
investment in the Global South. Chinese enterprising in Africa allows us to
analyse it in a South-South setting. Contrary to dominant discourses, Chinese
employers are not the sole racializers of the African/Chinese interface. Chinese
and Africans, employers and employees, as well as Western actors, coconstitute
racialization, with varied consequences for each. Rhetorical
racialization of African employees by some Chinese employers and African
employee and politicians’ racialization of Chinese, show that South-South
racializations of labour markedly differ from the North-South exemplar.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Journal of Peasant Studies: China's soybean crisis: the logic of modernization and its discontents

Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop, this contribut... more Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop,
this contribution examines China’s dramatic turn from having been a soybean net
exporter, up until the mid-1990s, to being the biggest importer of genetically
modified (GM) soybeans, since 2000. With China’s growing soybean imports,
domestic soybean production has experienced a drastic fall, creating an outcry about
a ‘soybean crisis’ in China. This paper examines competing interpretations about
China’s soybean imports and how a wide arrange of heated debates and critical
reflections have emerged about China’s position in globalization, the role of the state
in food security, the safety of GM foods, consumer rights, what constitutes scientific
authority, and the power of transnational corporations. In these debates, Chinese
critics have very different views about the US and South America, where significant
GM soybeans are produced for export to China.
Keywords: food security; GMO safety; discursive power; consumer rights; food
sovereignty

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Research paper thumbnail of "What's Left of Asia?"

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Jan 1, 2007

Introductory essay to a special issue of "positions" entitled "What's Left of Asia?." This is an ... more Introductory essay to a special issue of "positions" entitled "What's Left of Asia?." This is an inter-asian studies or critical asian studies collection on the history and concept of "asia" within intellectual and cultural history as well as political economy (it features Spivak and Han Yuhai as well as the sorely missed Gunder Frank and Giovanni Arrigihi). Our intro essay also tries to make an argument for re-articulating the "Asia" concept towards the global South.

Table of Contents for the special issue:

Andre Gunder Frank

No Civilization/s: Unity and Continuity in Diversity; or, Multilateral and Entropic Paradigms for the World Today and Tomorrow

Giovanni Arrighi

States, Markets, and Capitalism, East and West

Tani E. Barlow

Asian Women in Reregionalization

Yiman Wang

Screening Asia: Passing, Performative Translation, and Reconfiguration

Urs Matthias Zachmann

Blowing Up a Double Portrait in Black and White: The Concept of Asia in the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Okakura Tenshin

Han Yuhai

Speech without Words

Tobias Hübinette

Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists: The Case of Asian Studies in Sweden

Yan Hairong

Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Asian Ethnicity

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The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of 阶级的言说和改造——劳心与劳力、性别与阶级之二 = Class utterance and class transformation : second essay on brain work, physical Work, gender, and class

Open Times, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Positions East Asia Cultures Critique, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of The discourse of racialization of labour and Chinese enterprises in Africa

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of The Emaciation of the Rural

Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China, 2008

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Research paper thumbnail of Fu Manchu in Africa? Distorted portrayal of China in Africa

South African Labour Bulletin, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China (review)

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Journal of Agrarian Change, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Is Not Demonizing

Monthly Review, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of What If Your Client/Employer Treats Her Dog Better Than She Treats You?": Market Militarism and Market Humanism in Post-Socialist China Utopia

courses.washington.edu

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Research paper thumbnail of Why Must We Talk about the Environment? A Summary of Nanshan Seminar

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Research paper thumbnail of The "Right Dissident": Liu Xiaobo and the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

positions: asia critique, 2011

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Pacific Affairs, 2008

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Research paper thumbnail of The Beginning of a World Empire"? Contesting the Discourse of Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia

Modern China, 2013

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