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Anxiety Aesthetics
Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Lee traces a selection of historical events and controversies in late 1970s and early 1980s Beijing. Lee offers a fresh critical frame for doing symptomatic readings of protest ephemera and artistic interventions in the Beijing Spring social movement of 1978–80, while exploring the rhetoric of heated debates waged in institutional contexts prior to the '85 New Wave. Lee demonstrates how socialist aesthetic theories and structures continued to shape young artists' engagement with both space and selfhood and occupied the minds of figures looking to reform the nation. In magnifying this fleeting moment, Lee provides a new historical foundation for the unprecedented global exposure of contemporary Chinese art today.
Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance
This book brings together writing from activists and scholars that examine leftist and decolonial forms of resistance that have emerged from Hong Kong’s contemporary era of protests. Practices such as labor unionism, police abolition, land justice struggles, and other radical expressions of self-governance may not explicitly operate under the banners of leftism and decoloniality. Nevertheless, examining them within these frameworks uncovers historical, transnational, and prefigurative sightlines that can help to contextualize and interpret their impact for Hong Kong’s political future. This collection offers insights not only into Hong Kong's local struggles, but their interconnectedness with global movements as the city remains on the frontlines of international politics.
The 70's Biweekly
Taking The 70’s Biweekly—an independent youth publication in the 1970s’ Hong Kong—as the main thread, this edited volume investigates an unexplored trajectory of Hong Kong’s cultural and art production in the 1970s that represents the making of a dissent space by independent press and activist groups in the city. The 70’s Biweekly stands out from many other independent magazines with its unique blending of radical political theories, social activism, avant-garde art, and local art and literature creations. By taking the magazine as a nodal point of social and cultural activism from and around which actions, debates, community, and artistic practices are formed and generated, this...
Memory and Modern British Politics
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.
China in Global Capitalism
As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ever. From trade wars and pandemic politics to rioting workers, intercontinental balloons, and battles over TikTok, the US media tends to present contemporary China—when it’s discussed at all—in sensationalist terms. This portrayal has only intensified as China’s relationship with the United States has grown increasingly hostile. Whether in the form of overtly racist rhetoric and aggressive trade actions, or the more buttoned down but equally antagonistic efforts to oppose Chinese interests abroad, the US has made clear that it has no intere...
Trip of a Lifetime
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A Questão Chinesa
Existem múltiplas linhas de conflito na sociedade chinesa derivadas da hierarquia étnica e da opressão de gênero, ao mesmo tempo a transição da China ao capitalismo nos últimos quarenta anos também deu início a novas formas de luta de classes. Mesmo se cada um desses eixos de conflito produza tipos distintos de resistência, desde 1989 eles compartilham algumas características em comum. Em primeiro lugar, tais lutas, com apenas algumas exceções, foram apresentadas como apolíticas e sem antagonismo ao Partido Comunista. Em segundo lugar, a resistência permanece bastante fragmentada e descentralizada, o que significa que não há organizações transregionais ou nacionais capazes...
未竟的革命
香港如何從爭取民主的反送中運動快速進入白色恐怖時期？ 反送中運動之後的「香港人」都去了哪裡？都做了什麼？ 台灣人╱社會如何看待香港的反送中運動？ 台灣的民主運動和香港的民主運動有什麼本質上的不同？ 曾經團結港台的「今日香港、明日台灣」，為什麼現在台灣卻瀰漫了「疑港論」？ 從反送中運動猛然爆發到國安法的全面鎮壓，香港的高度自治已經不復存，而台灣也出現了唇亡齒寒的迫切感。香港國安法體制是用來清算過往民主運動的參與者與組織，以便將這個全球城市納入內地的維穩控制，一旦反抗勢力...
Grounded Globalism
The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and oppositional frame of reference into one that is more international and integrative. Likewise, as the South (home to UPS, CNN, KFC, and other international brands) goes global, people are emigrating there from countries like India, Mexico, and Vietnam--and becoming southerners. Much has been made of the demographic and economic aspects of this shift. Until now, though, no one has systematically shown what globalism means to the southern sense of self. ...
