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Utopian Shenzhen, 1978-1982
Below I summarize thoughts about the importance of Shenzhen in shaping China’s post Mao utopianism. In the heady rush of hyperbole, it is tempting to describe the SEZ’s first thiry years as the –...
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Changing Patterns of Rural Suicide (1980-2009)
Below, I have summarized Liu Yanwu’s article, The Problem of Rural Suicide (1980-2006) [刘燕舞：中国农村的自杀问题（1980－2006)]. The article responds to previous research on rural suicide, which had focused on the...
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the yaopi float glass factory
The Yaopi float glass factory hovers at memory’s edge, abandoned to ideology and chance encounters. In 1987, the Shekou factory represented the highest level of float glass technology production in...
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the violence of rural (re)construction (3): living genealogies
If you google “Hakka” all sorts of information comes up, ranging from Wikipedia’s Hakka People brief through the overwhelming comprehensive blog 客家风情 to more academic takes such as “The Secret History...
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the violence of rural (re)construction (4): what gets preserved
Monday I joined the Meizhou preservationists in Enning Neighborhood Guangzhou, where we met to talk about how we could intervene in what was happening in Meizhou. There were two issues at stake. The...
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