Beautiful speech by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about

The Three-Child Policy has provoked anxiety among many educated young Chinese. Here, Susan Greenhalgh argues that the policy should be seen as part of a broader project aimed at bringing Chinese society, and especially women, under greater Party control. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/06/06/the…

In this new essay, Yawen Li examines creative expressions of solidarity from mainland China to recent global social movements on Ukraine and Gaza, offering insights into legacies of radical internationalism and anticolonial imagination in China today. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/06/12/spe…

The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. reuters.com/investigates/s…

I can't say enough good things about this essay. It threads the needle perfectly.

In this essay, Juan Qian explores the implications of historical disputes about the Qing Dynasty for China’s national identity and territorial claims, particularly given the Chinese government's efforts of to promote a unified ‘Chinese national community’. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/07/11/sec…

Peoples of the frontiers in China have long been linked derogatively with animals. In the 21st century, however, such associations have been reworked by minority artists, projects of cultural survival, and the Chinese state itself, writes Thomas White. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/07/17/the…

The Algerian Olympics team threw flowers in the Seine, at the point where in 1961 around 200 Algerians were drowned by French police crushing a protest against an anti-Muslim curfew.

Thank you, Jon Stewart.

The new issue of MIC is out! In it, we focus on what remains of cultural differences at the end of the dream of communist pluralism and ethnic autonomy and on how Blackness has been imagined, defined, or practiced in Chinese history. Download for free at madeinchinajournal.com/2024/08/27/ben…

As New Yorkers protested a recent police mass shooting by collectively hopping turnstiles, we are reminded of this piece by Maya 美清 Singhal on fare evasion as interracial solidarity. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/02/12/bro…

Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Alexander Libman Osteuropa-Institut on Russia’s war economy, Tatiana Zhurzhenko ZOiS - Zentrum für Osteuropa- u. int. Studien on Ukraine’s rebordering, Karolina Kluczewska UGent on Dushanbe, Christian Sorace Christian Sorace on Ulaanbaatar… online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

NEW ISSUE! Issue 7:2 of Critical Times is out now from Duke University Press ! Featuring Christian Sorace, Lisa Guenther, Neil Vallelly, Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar), and many more. You can access all of the articles here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

Now booking: Simon Critchley On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy | The Boutwood Lecture Wed 30 Oct 17.30 tickettailor.com/events/corpusc…

In our new issue, Christian Sorace Christian Sorace explores historical continuities in urban renewal in Ulaanbaatar, from Mongolia's socialist era to the capitalist present, as the informal districts of yurts still defy official modernization schemes. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

Here's my take on this year's Nobel prize in economics. I highlight that it exposes how the economics discipline fails to ask critical questions about colonialism, imperialism and the universality of western institutions. theconversation.com/this-years-nob…

Please join us for THE ANGEL OF HISTORY Can we redeem the past? Do catastrophe and redemption go hand in hand? A performance by Manu Bazzano and discussion with Christian Sorace (Christian Sorace) 28 February, 5-7pm followed by wine reception Register Now: tinyurl.com/44un5b6m