> ...I don't know what's become of it in recent years. What do other
> people think?
I find the articles almost always interesting in their breadth of topic and depth of analysis. Anderson himself is insightful on everything from American elections to Taiwanese separatism. For those who don't know what's become of it in recent years, here's a description of the current issue. --CGE
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In NLR 32, March-April 2005
As the CCP now attempts to de-escalate the anti-Japanese demonstrations it has promoted over the past few weeks, Wang Chaohua - a central leader in Tiananmen Square and editor of the acclaimed One China, Many Paths - analyses the distinctive forms of nationalist consciousness in mainland China and Taiwan: A Tale of Two Nationalisms. Protest poet Yang Lian writes on the seething discontent in the Chinese countryside: Dark Side of the Chinese Moon. For past coverage see also:
* Roundtable on Taiwan: artists, activists and intellectuals discuss
their island's future
* W. J. F. Jenner, Race and Class in China
* Wang Hui, Fire at the Castle Gate
* He Qinglian, China’s Listing Social Structure
Also in NLR 32:
* Giovanni Arrighi, Hegemony Unravelling. Operation Iraqi Freedom and
the ballooning US deficit in the longue duree of declining American
hegemony: the first part of a major engagement with David
Harvey's New Imperialism.
* Gopal Balakrishnan, Future Unknown. Re-reading Machiavelli as a
strategist of new beginnings, in the context of historic defeat. See
also Algorithms of War and From Florence to Moscow.
* Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian Defiance. The Ramallah doctor and
activist speaks about building a new political movement to combat
both the Israeli Occupation and the corrupt and authoritarian
Palestinian Authority. See other‘ Movement of Movements’
texts: Ngwane, Bello, Stedile.
* Matthew Jesse Jackson, Neomanagerial Art. Borrowings from the
revolutionary avant-garde in the practices of contemporary
creator-impresarios, and the refusenik stance of Ilya Kabakov's
conceptual counter-projects.
Book Reviews:
* Robin Blackburn on Anatol Lieven, America Right or Wrong. Universal
principles and local ressentiments as twin motors of US nationalism.
* John Newsinger on David Anderson, Histories of the Hanged and
Caroline Elkins, Britain's Gulag. The throttling of Kenya's
anti-colonial movement by gallows and gaol, re-examined in the shadow
of Abu Ghraib.
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