What is a left position on Taiwan? This question was posed to us – the three editors of praxis, Rebecca Karl, Aminda Smith, and Fabio Lanza –...
What is a left position on Taiwan? This question was posed to us – the three editors of praxis, Rebecca Karl, Aminda Smith, and Fabio Lanza –...
Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question has led...
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...
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What is a left position on Taiwan? This question was posed to us – the three editors of praxis, Rebecca Karl, Aminda Smith, and Fabio Lanza –...
Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question has led...
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...
on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “This was precisely the point of soliciting some commentary. The person who asked us about the “left” position works for…” Jul 3, 15:00
on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “On the DSA contacts with the genocidal Beijing regime, see also: https://www.newsweek.com/mamdani-china-communist-party-democratic-socialists-11370804 –ps2. What leftists should be talking about is…” Jul 1, 15:54 on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “It’s striking that in the current situation with China’s constant warmongering and threats of aggression against Taiwan, including hybrid warfare…” Jun 28, 14:49 on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “Very strong points. See my other comment too.” Jun 28, 14:26
on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “AOC is a DSA member, is she not? Does the DSA have a position on Taiwan? What is it? And…” Jun 27, 09:32
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