On December 10, 2022, award-winning Chinese science fiction writer Han Song began documenting his struggle with COVID-19 on his Weibo account. Han Song’s “Covid Diary,”...
On December 10, 2022, award-winning Chinese science fiction writer Han Song began documenting his struggle with COVID-19 on his Weibo account. Han Song’s “Covid Diary,”...
A group of UCLA students undertook a performance art practice in response to and in support of the ongoing White Paper Revolution in China. The...
M.E. O’Brien discusses family abolition and her 2022 sci-fi novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of The New York Commune, 2052-2072.
episteme issue 9 presents a symposium on Ken Kawashima’s new translation and edition of Uno Kozo’s classic Theory of Crisis (1953).
This new work of Marxist-feminism from the Global South is quite simply the most convincing analysis of the current conjuncture I have read. Delivering on the promises of predecessors like...
In Fall 2022, I offered a class entitled “Students and Protest in Modern China” at NYU in New York. Most of the students in the class are PRC citizens and...
On December 10, 2022, award-winning Chinese science fiction writer Han Song began documenting his struggle with COVID-19 on his Weibo account. Han Song’s “Covid Diary,” which was accompanied by various pictures he took with his cellphone, went viral online.
A group of UCLA students undertook a performance art practice in response to and in support of the ongoing White Paper Revolution in China.
Hongwei Bao presents three pieces on poetry and protest in China as part of our continuing “First Looks” series on the COVID-19 pademic.
M.E. O’Brien discusses family abolition and her 2022 sci-fi novel “Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of The New York Commune, 2052-2072”.
Grace En-Yi Ting weaves together Japanese literature, Hong Kong, and Asian American identity in an intellectual and personal narrative of “sideways becoming” through queer/feminist theory.
episteme issue 9 presents a symposium on Ken Kawashima’s new translation and edition of Uno Kozo’s classic Theory of Crisis (1953).
Fieldwork (le terrain) is not a simple act of “discovering” but rather a much more complex process, one that manifests itself over time and involves the researchers themselves.
This issue offers a new perspective on indigeneity and encourage us to consider the ways in which settler colonialism continues to play a major role in extractive capitalist projects, land dispossession, and political domination in “Asia.”
Angela Zito reflects on her teaching repertoire and her use of Asao Inoue’s concept of labor-based grading contracts for her course, Monsters + Their Humans.
A roundtable to celebrate the publication of Tani Barlow’s In the Event of Women (Duke University Press, 2022), and to discuss how to reposition feminist critique historically in light of the methodology and arguments Barlow advances in her book.
In this speculative piece, bio artist Kuang-Yi Ku works with scientists to design a new series of cultivated, enhanced ginseng to be grown in the future on the moon, for the near present.
Four interviews with contemporary thinkers investigating the relationship of Marxism and feminism today.
There’s an impulse to reflect, to take stock, heightened by these crisis times. This issue takes a critical look at the methods and sources we use to produce knowledge and showcases new disciplinary methods applied both specifically to North Korea and more broadly.
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