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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)
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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
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Carlos Sardiña Galache, The all-out war of the Burmese military against its own people
The coup staged by the Burmese military on February 1, 2021 is plunging the country into an all-out war waged by the armed forces against...
Toulouse-Antonin Roy reviews Mark Driscoll, The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
Mark Driscoll’s The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection offers a fresh new look at treaty port imperialism in 19th...
Editorial Collective, Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
We are outraged at the racist violence against Asians and Asian Americans, especially elders and women, which has resurfaced since the outbreak of COVID-19 in...
Jing Wang, Letter from MIT
In mid-January of this year, MIT professor Chen Gang, a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist, was arrested by the FBI and charged with wire...
Ken Kawashima reviews The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetic in Japan’s ’68
It is Time to Return to the Future of The Red Years for Our Time. The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics of the Japanese ’68, edited by...
Editorial Collective, Critical Reflections on “Comfort Women”
Powerful statements have been issued in the last week regarding the inaccuracies and academic misconduct in the publication of “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific...
Thomas Burnham, The Analogy Between the Cultural Revolution and “Cancel Culture:” A Historical Perspective
On July 4th, 2020, in the midst of the twin crises of a nationwide uprising against racial injustice and a global pandemic, Donald Trump stood...
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...
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