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Going Invite Public · Talk · Hosted by Jacobin Magazine
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Tuesday, August 26 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Show Map The Commons Brooklyn 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217
Sponsored by Jacobin Magazine and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - New York Office.
China has undoubtedly been the most dynamic center of capitalist accumulation over the past generation. But this explosive growth has also generated staggering inequality and social polarization.
What are the political underpinnings of China's economic "miracle"? Workers and peasants have been subject to brutal forms of exploitation, dispossession, and precarity — but they have also been fighting back.
What are the dynamics of this resistance, and how is the state responding to widespread social insurgency? What sorts of political limits and contradictions have emerged with more recent attempts to "rebalance" the economy away from wage repression and export processing and towards higher value added production and domestic consumption?
And what potential does social insurgency in China hold for a creating a more just and equitable society?
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Eli Friedman is the recent author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China. He teaches at Cornell University.
Julia Chuang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. During her doctoral research, she conducted two years of ethnographic fieldwork following rural migrants and their labor brokers across China.
Esther Wang is a New York City-based community organizer, communications strategist, and writer.
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Suggested reading:
"Outside the New China" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/09/outside-the-new-china/
"China in Revolt" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/08/china-in-revolt/