Growing up in 1990s China, Yangyang Cheng encountered two contradictory narratives about what it meant to be a worker. In older periodicals and occasionally in
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From Phenomenal World China’s class politics after 1989 In April 1989, a series of explosive pro-democracy movements erupted across China. These movements and their political
Apologists for capitalism like to point to its historically progressive aspects, like its supposed use of “free labor” rather than older forms of labor compulsion.