This was originally written for and published in AHA Perspectives on History, and it is cross-posted with permission. We at positions also mourn the loss...
This was originally written for and published in AHA Perspectives on History, and it is cross-posted with permission. We at positions also mourn the loss...
Translator’s note: The following reflection by the Hui Muslim contemporary Chinese writer Zhang Chengzhi was published on WeChat during the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampments of...
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A major labor struggle unfolded in late February and early March 2026 at the Polyak Eynez coal mine in Kınık, a district of İzmir in...
Laurence Coderre (30 July 1984 – 8 January 2026) was our colleague, our friend, our inspiration. Born in Canada, she went to high school in...
Esmat Elhalaby, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (Oakland: University of California Press, 2025) Parting Gifts of Empire (henceforth...
In reviewing a book on the relationship between Chinese intellectuals and the Maoist past, Fabio Lanza emphasized the need to ‘take the politics of the...
On October 13, 2025, Xinhua Net published a commentary celebrating Xi Jinping’s speech at the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women. Confirming that “Women play an...
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On October 2nd, 2025, Donald Trump dispelled any lingering doubts about his relationship to the überconservative policy positions laid out by the Heritage Foundation’s “Project...
This was originally written for and published in AHA Perspectives on History, and it is cross-posted with permission. We at positions also mourn the loss...
Translator’s note: The following reflection by the Hui Muslim contemporary Chinese writer Zhang Chengzhi was published on WeChat during the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampments of...
Andrea Pollio, Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital, University of California Press: Los Angeles, 238 pp., 9780520413085 Amid the new rounds...
Chen Jian, Zhou Enlai: A Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024)* Chen Jian has written an impressive book. For decades to come, it will undoubtedly...
Nellie Chu. 2026. Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou. Durham: Duke University Press. Since the promotion of the state-endorsed “Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation” initiative...
A major labor struggle unfolded in late February and early March 2026 at the Polyak Eynez coal mine in Kınık, a district of İzmir in...
Laurence Coderre (30 July 1984 – 8 January 2026) was our colleague, our friend, our inspiration. Born in Canada, she went to high school in...
Esmat Elhalaby, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (Oakland: University of California Press, 2025) Parting Gifts of Empire (henceforth...
In reviewing a book on the relationship between Chinese intellectuals and the Maoist past, Fabio Lanza emphasized the need to ‘take the politics of the...
On October 13, 2025, Xinhua Net published a commentary celebrating Xi Jinping’s speech at the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women. Confirming that “Women play an...
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