Let's talk about China

[teqniq]

Pursuing critics, China reaches across borders. And nobody is stopping it.

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whose sense of irony I like

 

[hash tag]

Where did China get the rendition idea without trial, hmmm, I wonder. UK? America?

 

[teqniq]

I think that is the general premise of the tweet

 

[butchersapron]

New Journal: Chuang

In this first issue we outline our basic conceptual framework and illustrate the current state of class conflict in China. We also include translated reports and interviews with the proletarians engaged in these struggles, pairing our theory with primary sources drawn from class dynamics that might otherwise remain abstract.

Though taking the futureless present as our starting point, our first issue is also in a way performing burial rites for the dead generations who have populated the collapse of the communist horizon in East Asia. This issue therefore begins with a long-form article on the socialist era, “Sorghum and Steel: The Socialist Developmental Regime and the Forging of China,” the first in a three-part series aiming to narrate a new economic history of China (the next two parts will be included in subsequent issues), before moving on to a pair of analytic articles on contemporary urban and rural struggles, as well as original translations and interviews with individuals engaged in them.

 

[sihhi]

Content looks wonderful but irritating purposeful misspelling on the cover, bottom left should have a tick upwards not end flush: 闯

 

[Pickman's model]

Content looks wonderful but irritating purposeful misspelling on the cover, bottom left should have a tick upwards not end flush: 闯

that puts you in the running for a european pedantry point

 

[hash tag]

that puts you in the running for a european pedantry point

Does it count as Europe when it's an Asian publication about an Asian country?

 

[Pickman's model]

Does it count as Europe when it's an Asian publication about an Asian country?

the points are awarded for where the pedantry occurred. if someone in e.g. china went about and beyond the call of detail about something in the guardian then the chinese pedantry board (or maybe the chinese people's pedantry council, depending on where in china the pedantry occurred) would award a point.

 

[butchersapron]

Does it count as Europe when it's an Asian publication about an Asian country?

I'm not sure it is an asian publication.

 

[SpackleFrog]

Moody's says the shadow banking sector is even more indebted than first thought...

China’s debt problem may be worse than expected, Moody’s warns

 

[teqniq]

China must prepare for 'people's war at sea,' defense chief says | The Japan Times

Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan has warned of maritime security threats and called for increased preparations for what he termed a “people’s war at sea” as Beijing seeks to “safeguard sovereignty” after last month’s international tribunal ruling rejected its historic claims to much of the South China Sea....

 

[JimW]

Content looks wonderful but irritating purposeful misspelling on the cover, bottom left should have a tick upwards not end flush: 闯

The diacritic marking tone on the pinyin is over the wrong vowel too I reckon. I think I've met some of these people, or there was a similarly titled project a few years back. Good crowd.

 

[maomao]

The diacritic marking tone on the pinyin is over the wrong vowel too I reckon. I think I've met some of these people, or there was a similarly titled project a few years back. Good crowd.

It's on the 'a' which is correct. Otherwise it would have to go on the 'w' in 'wang'.

 

[JimW]

It's on the 'a' which is correct. Otherwise it would have to go on the 'w' in 'wang'.

Fair enough, could have sworn it should be the 'u'. No more sub-editing for me.

 

[gawkrodger]

well however it should be spelt, it appears to be selling pretty quickly

 

[teqniq]

So no comment about the court ruling and China's reaction to it. Just stuff to do with the correct placings of accents on ideograms. Oh well. I was rather hoping that some of our Chinese posters might be able to provide some perspective on things.

Anyway further to my last post:

China conducts 'combat patrols' over contested islands

 

[maomao]

So no comment about the court ruling and China's reaction to it. Just stuff to do with the correct placings of accents on ideograms. Oh well.

The accents go on the romanisations not on the ideograms.

 

[teqniq]

Doh!

 

[Artaxerxes]

Oh dear.

 

[JimW]

Oh dear.

The New China, forging forward into the social attitudes of the 1950s.

 

[not-bono-ever]

wheres that from ?

 

[Artaxerxes]

wheres that from ?

Air China

A passage in the current edition of Wings of China, the publication distributed on Air China, Asia’s third largest airline, warns “London is generally a safe place to travel, however precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people.

Not made the Beeb yet, but its on Twatter and the Standard.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I have just been an AC but only for a short connector. Fucking hell, I thought the article telling Chinese tourists to head for the bright lights of Brixton ( eddy grant reference ) & Peckham that I found in another inflight rag was bad enough

 

[Artaxerxes]

I have just been an AC but only for a short connector. Fucking hell, I thought the article telling Chinese tourists to head for the bright lights of Brixton ( eddy grant reference ) & Peckham that I found in another inflight rag was bad enough

I flew with them long haul a couple of years ago. Never again, I'll pay extra, horrible flight, horrible staff.

 

[butchersapron]

New Journal: Chuang

See also Made in China - latest issue (on-line yesterday) summary:

In this issue, we present three distinct perspectives on how the party-state manages and controls Chinese society. First, we consider the role of labour law in China as a vehicle for reinforcing capitalist hegemony. We then look into the limitations of the welfare system in relation to migrant labour. Finally, we challenge some widely-held assumptions about the political nature of land-related social movements in the Chinese countryside. The issue also includes a forum on how precarisation has impacted the Chinese workforce and an article that reflects on the role of poetry as a form of resistance.

And the Chinoiresie site has loads of good stuff itself.

 

[Pickman's model]

China must prepare for 'people's war at sea,' defense chief says | The Japan Times

the pla navy: new capabilities and missions for the 21st century

 

[camouflage]

China Opposes US and Russian Call For Nuclear Expansian

said in a scouse accent...

 

[teqniq]

How China Killed South China Sea Reefs and Built Military Bases On Top

...To McManus, a professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami, the Spratlys aren’t just tiny chips out of a blue background on Google Maps; from dives there in the early 1990s, he remembers seeing schools of hammerhead sharks so dense they eclipsed the light. This time, he swam through miles of deserted dead coral—of the few fish he saw, the largest barely reached 4 inches.

“I’ve never seen a reef where you could swim for a kilometer without seeing a single fish,” he says....

 

[butchersapron]

Review: David Bandurski, Dragons in Diamond Village: Tales of Resistance in Urbanizing China (2016)

The book under review here takes us to one aspect of its dark underside. The slow rate of urbanization from the revolution to 1978 was the result of the conscious policy of the “hukou” system, a virtual Chinese apartheid putting urban residence, or even moving elsewhere, out of reach for the great majority of the peasantry. The hukou, which has been made more flexible in recent years but still plays a major role in controlling the movement of people, is essentially a local residence permit linked to one’s birthplace and providing access to an array of social services (education, healthcare, housing) in that birthplace and only there. For those born in the booming coastal cities of Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, so much the better; the far greater part of the population born in remote and poor villages, is left with the choice of poverty, grinding out a meager living on the land, or joining the hundreds of millions of migrant laborers who live on the edge as second-class citizens in urban areas.

 

[Casually Red]

The Chinese . A great bunch of lads .