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Critical Times 10437037.
Published: 25 January 2023
...Emily Ng Abstract The history of modern China has been filled with loss in many senses. From certain angles of vision, loss, remembrance, and forgetting orbit around figures of political repression in the People’s Republic (PRC), particularly that of censorship. These approaches posit a link...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 272–276.
Published: 01 April 2018
... will be witness to twenty-three percent of the global jobs lost to automation. In China, while figures at the national economy level are hard to come by, it is possible to get a sense of what is going on by looking at individual enterprises and sectors. Foxconn, which makes Apple phones and computers in southern...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 552–559.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of a revolution of the East had already been raised by Marx and Engels , with regard to China, in 1850: It is a gratifying fact that in eight years the calico bales of the English bourgeoisie have brought the oldest and least perturbable kingdom on earth to the eve of a social upheaval, which, in any event...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 202–216.
Published: 01 April 2022
... transfigure each other. An image of the Eiffel Tower and of the Great Wall of China, for example, might turn into a French Maoist movement. 22 Second, I simply ask the question Sardar and Sweeney invite us to ask: What is seen as everyday and normal in universities today, but might, with a slight change...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 337–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
... by which colonialism secures its hold can be more broadly charted. It makes visible an ellipse in which the colonized—in Disei, Egypt, Tonkin, India, China, Madagascar—share a fate. Indeed, two of the French brigades involved in Tonkin were led by generals who had served in Senegal and who had...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 August 2019
...,” accusations that are leveled against peace petitioners in Turkey, critics of the Israeli state in Palestine and elsewhere, opponents of the caste system and Hindu nationalism in India, intellectuals and activists threatened with imprisonment for seeking greater freedoms in China and in Iran, and migrants...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
... across Africa and Latin America. Mainstream economists document the plummeting percentage of property held in public trust in China, Japan, Europe, and the United States—with several of these countries having effectively placed their commons in hock. 2 We are witnessing, in effect, a recomposition...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 80–98.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of Maoist attacks. In his celebrated work comparing famine in India and China, Amartya Sen argued that while there may be chronic starvation in India, there could never be famine as in China largely because of the checks and balances introduced by electoral democracy, the role of the opposition...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 87–96.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Press , 2011 . Chan Jenny , Selden Mark , and Pun Ngai . Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers . Chicago : Haymarket , 2020 . Crouch Colin . Coping with Post-democracy . London : Fabian Society , 2000 . Dyer-Witheford Nick...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 334–351.
Published: 01 August 2021
... as a place of isolation, it is also just a mountain town contending, like so much of China and the rest of the world, with the unequal movement of people from village to town to city, with environmental degradation and corresponding nostalgia for the natural, and with the pandemic lockdown and ravages...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 466–478.
Published: 01 December 2019
... when it came to the peace efforts in Darfur. Moreover, two members of the Security Council of the United Nations, China and Russia, expressed serious concern over the indictment. 13 Prominent African scholar Mahmood Mamdani has argued that ending conflicts in Africa does not necessarily call...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 517–529.
Published: 01 December 2021
... features of capitalism to all historical epochs: “As soon as one begins to look for long stretches of stagnation and regression and stops working from images formed within capitalist economies, examples multiply rapidly.” 41 Hence, China witnessed a long period of development of the productive forces...
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Critical Times 10436967.
Published: 25 January 2023
... China and Mo Yan s novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. Drawing on Buddhist cosmopolitics, she argues that witnessing loss, surviving, must be understood by multiplying lives and letting go. Ng teases out this relation to loss by taking a parallax view that juxtaposes the ostensibly knowable...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 475–494.
Published: 01 August 2022
... preso político angolano . Lisbon : Tinta da China , 2017 . Bertelsen Bjørn Enge . “ Effervescence and Ephemerality: Popular Urban Uprisings in Mozambique .” Ethnos 81 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 25 – 52 . Blanes Ruy Llera . “ A febre do arquivo: O ‘efeito Benjamin’ e as revoluções...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... reflections continue with yet another set of scenes depicting fluency in foreign tongues. He cites the German writer Francis Schuldt, who describes a couple from London working in a smaller city in China interrogated suspiciously by the Russian police. That they respond in Chinese rather than English...
