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Thomas Burnham, The Analogy Between the Cultural Revolution and “Cancel Culture:” A Historical Perspective
Thomas Burnham, The Analogy between the Cultural Revolution and “Cancel Culture”: A Historical Perspective Kaiser Kuo’s ironic tweet responding to the storming of the Capitol...
Aminda Smith: Donald Trump, Mao Zedong, and the Audacity of the Masses
Donald Trump’s political career has invited all kinds of analogies, some useful, most not. Among the most facile have been the attempts to portray the...
Chenshu Zhou, “76 Days: Can the Dead Speak?”
76 Days, a feature-length documentary film focusing on the initial coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city Wuhan, has been making the rounds at film festivals...
Poems by Kim Nam-ju (translations by Kevin Michael Smith)
Kim Nam-ju (1945-1994), born in Haenam, South Cholla Province, was a leading leftist poet associated with South Korea’s minjung or “people’s” movement of the 1970s...
Critical China Scholars, Open Letter to Monthly Review
Dear friends at Monthly Review, As scholars and activists committed to charting a course for an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist left in the midst of rising...
Emily Jungmin Yoon, Comfort
From a piercing collection of poems, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon explores gender, race, and violence, confronting the histories of...
Thomas Burnham reviews Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History
In the West, as popular trust in liberal institutions is eroded, an increasingly unapologetic left is confronting an ascendant right. In the United States, the...
Minju Bae, Demilitarization in the Time of Police Abolition: Korean A-bomb Survivors Demand Justice
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Kamran Baradaran, Ground Zero, or Why Do We Need Antonio Gramsci in the Times of COVID-19
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Kun Huang, “Anti-Blackness” in Chinese Racial-Nationalism: Sex/Gender, Reproduction, and Metaphors of Pathology
Author: Kun Huang Translators: Roy Chan, Shui-yin Sharon Yam Notes on English edition: This essay was originally published in Chinese on the “Trading Thoughts” column...
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