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...
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...
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?: “Absolutely agree with the observation here that class (or real economy more generally) is paradoxically the missing element in these…” Jun 24, 09:02
on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “Please do elaborate on how class, gendered care work, and lived border experiences — all of which are of course…” Jun 24, 07:06
on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “Unfortunately, AOC and most US-folks have had very little experience dealing with the reality of healing from colonialism could and…” Jun 23, 21:40
on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “I am surprised that, for an article listing out different leftist positions that no one here talked about class. The…” Jun 23, 19:40
on What is a Left Position on Taiwan?: “Glad Ralf too has an answer. More dialogue the better.” Jun 23, 17:12
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