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“The Year of China in South Africa”: Two Scenes from Johannesburg

Mingwei Huang
Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 146–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355257
Published: 01 May 2018
... of this geopolitical phenomenon, this essay juxtaposes the conjuring of transnational Chinese financial capital at Johannesburg’s premier airport with a story of a murder of a Chinese trader by an African employee. “China’s rise” in the Global South presents new frontiers for global capital and a new color line...
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China and the Global South: A Geostrategic Perspective

Ronald C. Po
Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 135–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355233
Published: 01 May 2018
...Ronald C. Po American politicians and intellectuals consider the China Dream a conspicuous symbol of the country’s ambition as a maritime and global power across the Pacific Ocean. I am, however, reluctant to side with those analysts who regard the China Dream as being equivalent to its aspiration...
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Nutritional Governmentality: Food and the Politics of Health in Late Imperial and Republican China

Mark Swislocki
Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (110): 9–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2010-024
Published: 01 May 2011
...Mark Swislocki Among the most powerful metanarratives in discourses on modernity, especially about China, is that of the transition from a condition of premodern food scarcity to one of potential plenty. Employing insights yielded from the recent discoveries of the calorie and of vitamins...
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Jams of Consequence: Rethinking the Jazz Age in Japan and China

Nichole T. Rustin
Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 95–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-90-95
Published: 01 October 2004
... Historians' Organization,Inc. 2004 RHR_90_08Rustin.qxd 8/3/04 11:55 AM Page 95 (RE)VIEWS Jams of Consequence: Rethinking the Jazz Age in Japan and China Nichole T. Rustin E. Taylor Atkins, Blue Nippon: Authenticating...
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Disability and Biogovernance in Modern China

Everett Zhang
Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 249–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-94-249
Published: 01 January 2006
...Everett Zhang Matthew Kohrman, Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 2006 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 (RE)VIEWS Disability...
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Connecting the Countryside: Radio Network and the Infrastructure of the Masses in Socialist China

Yingchuan Yang
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 111–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637204
Published: 01 October 2023
...Yingchuan Yang Abstract In the 1950s and 1960s, rural radio networks were erected all across China, operated and maintained by local residents who worked as technicians, correspondents, and broadcasters. This article introduces the radio network as a complex and diverse technological infrastructure...
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The Human Tide: Hydraulic Engineering and the Aesthetic of Corporeal Infrastructure in Socialist China

Yuan Gao
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 77–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637175
Published: 01 October 2023
...Yuan Gao Abstract This article investigates how cultural workers from the 1950s to the 1970s served China’s hydraulic engineering campaign in artworks depicting human resource extraction. Focusing on Tian Han’s drama The Caprice of the Ming Tombs Reservoir (1958) and Jiang Yunchuan’s documentary...
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History and Gender in China

Rebecca E. Karl
Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (77): 142–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2000-77-142
Published: 01 May 2000
...Rebecca E. Karl Copyright © 2000 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2000 History and Gender in China Rebecca E. Karl Francesca Bray, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley and Los Angeles...
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RURAL CHINA IN THE 1960’s: THE PERSISTENCE OF CLASS STRUGGLE

Anne Thurston
Radical History Review (1975) 1975 (9-10): 30–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1636545-1975-9-10-30
Published: 01 October 1975
...Anne Thurston 1975 RURAL CHINA IN THE 1960's: THE PERSISTENCE OF CLASS STRUGGLE In the spring of 1957, less than a year after China had completed the transition from capitalism to socialism, Mao Tse-tung asserted that the introduction...
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THE ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION AND LATE IMPERIAL CHINA: A SOCIETY WITHOUT CLASS CONFLICT AND SOCIAL CHANGE?

Frances Moulder
Radical History Review (1975) 1975 (9-10): 44–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1636545-1975-9-10-44
Published: 01 October 1975
...Frances Moulder 1975 * This paper is drawn from my forthcoming book, Japan, China and the Modern World Economy: Towards a Reinterpretation of East Asian Development ca. 1600- ca. 1918 (Cambridge University Press). THE ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION AND LATE IMPERIAL CHINA...
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Figure 2. In China, the idea of delivering entertainment, education, and propaganda to the countryside through outdoor screenings can be traced back to the mid-twentieth century. During the socialist era, government projectionists routinely showed short educational programs and propaganda footage prior to the feature presentation. Today, such a practice continues even in screening events that are not sponsored by the government, such as those inside construction compounds. In this image, a short clip on construction work-site safety, along with clips emphasizing the importance of social order and morality, is being shown before the feature film. Chongqing, China, 2014.

In China, the idea of delivering entertainment, education, and propaganda t...

in Portable and Precarious: Life and Spectacle in China’s Construction Camps > Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 2. In China, the idea of delivering entertainment, education, and propaganda to the countryside through outdoor screenings can be traced back to the mid-twentieth century. During the socialist era, government projectionists routinely showed short educational programs and propaganda footage More
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Portable and Precarious: Life and Spectacle in China’s Construction Camps

Tong Lam
Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 173–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-6942477
Published: 01 October 2018
...Figure 2. In China, the idea of delivering entertainment, education, and propaganda to the countryside through outdoor screenings can be traced back to the mid-twentieth century. During the socialist era, government projectionists routinely showed short educational programs and propaganda footage...
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When a Dragon Changes Its Colors: Governance Implications of the New Sino-Southern African Relations

Phineas Bbaala
Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 139–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355245
Published: 01 May 2018
...Phineas Bbaala Sino-Southern African relations, which span over five decades, have evolved in both purpose and sincerity over the years. While early engagements were anchored in mutual support for territorial sovereignty and human rights through China’s widely publicized policy of noninterference...
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Race, Empire, and Humanism in the Work of Lillian Smith

Jay Garcia
Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 59–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-038
Published: 01 May 2008
... of African Americans contributed to growing calls for civic and legal transformations of the racist social order during the 1940s, when she gained national recognition for her fiction, essays, and editorials. This article explores Smith's experiences in China in the 1920s. Witnessing forms of colonial...
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Cold Blood: HIV/AIDS and the Global Blood Biotechnology Industry

Jih-Fei Cheng
Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 143–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841718
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jih-Fei Cheng Abstract This article historicizes viral transmissions through the global supply chain of blood plasma between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Since the 1941 initiation of plasma donation to serve US armed forces, privately exported US blood products have...
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“Seropedagogy”: Teaching the Global History of HIV/AIDS

Robert Franco
Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 9–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841658
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the United States, Haiti, China, and elsewhere that sought to find a scapegoat for the pandemic, the course then turns to the global power of the pharmaceutical industry. It examines the marketing and lobbying strategies of companies such as Gilead, which use the stigma of HIV/AIDS to transform impoverished...
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A Moonless Night

Solveig Qu Suess
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 103–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637190
Published: 01 October 2023
...Solveig Qu Suess Abstract Curated Spaces features the work of artist and filmmaker Solveig Qu Suess. This essay provides narrative and visual context for her film Little Grass . The film explores the history of geopolitical division between China and the West through the lens of her mother’s career...
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Fighting Fascism on Empire’s Doorstep: Mediodía and Popular Front Politics in 1930s Cuba

Tony Wood
Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (150): 80–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-11257408
Published: 01 October 2024
... with struggles for democratic representation and for racial and gender equality. But for the magazine’s editors, these battles could not be disconnected from the broader turbulence afflicting the world in the 1930s, from the Spanish Civil War to the Japanese occupation of China and the Nazi threat in Europe...
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Archiving Peripheral Taiwan: The Prodigy of the Human and Historical Narration

Howard Chiang
Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (120): 204–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2704110
Published: 01 October 2014
... on Zeng Qiuhuang, arguably the most famous renyao in the 1950s, reveals and captures a reciprocal chimera effect whereby the margins of sexuality and the periphery of “China” and “Chineseness” converge into the mimetic recalcitrant traces of the past. The prodigy of the human— renyao —configures the basis...
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Figure 4. On-site dormitories are common in Chinese construction sites. Construction companies want to ensure the minimal well-being of their workers to guarantee their productivity. The giant slogan on the background building reads: “The protection of the environment starts with me. For good health, pay attention to hygiene.” Chengdu, China, 2013.

On-site dormitories are common in Chinese construction sites. Construction ...

in Portable and Precarious: Life and Spectacle in China’s Construction Camps > Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
health, pay attention to hygiene.” Chengdu, China, 2013. More