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  • Involution

    A Worker Inquiry Amid China's Youth Unemployment Wave

    by Gonglao Collective ...
    Translated by Eli Friedman ...
    Series series Hundred Flowers
    A fascinating, intimate window onto China’s intensifying youth employment crisisChina’s hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. “Involution” is the term they have popularized for the ever-intensifying pressures of a job market where the rewards and conditions only worsen. Forced into a cutthroat doom loop, the people interviewed in Involution ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • China in Global Capitalism

    Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry

    by Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith, Peifeng Lin ...
    As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ever.From trade wars and pandemic politics to rioting workers, intercontinental balloons, and battles over TikTok, the US media tends to present contemporary China—when it’s discussed at all—in sensationalist terms. This portrayal has only intensified as ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The China Question

    Toward Left Perspectives

    Edited by Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Ashley Smith ...
    Is there a “Left perspective” on the US-China rivalry?The US-China conflict is no straightforward Great Power rivalry. Understanding it requires wrestling with its multiple dimensions and consequences, from geopolitics to economic interdependence, anti-Asian racism in the US and organizing amongst immigrant diasporas, social movements in China and the character of Chinese capitalism. This ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Urbanization of People

    The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City

    by Eli Friedman ...
    Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship.The Urbanization of People reveals how cities in China have granted public goods ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Urbanization of People

    The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City

    by Eli Friedman ...
    Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship.The Urbanization of People reveals how cities in China have granted public goods ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Insurgency Trap

    Labor Politics in Postsocialist China

    by Eli Friedman ...
    During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of its own devising and is thus unable to tame expansive worker unrest. Labor conflict in the process ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Striking to Survive

    Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China

    by Ellen Friedman, Eli Friedman ...
    In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle, they have gradually established a foothold as part of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • China on Strike

    Narratives of Workers' Resistance

    Edited by Zhongjin Li, Eli Friedman, Hao Ren ...
    China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • China's Crisis of Success

    by William H. Overholt ...
    China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy based on exports and infrastructure now piles up debt without producing sustainable economic ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Cool War

    The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the worldThe Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool War. Just as the Cold War matched the planet’s reigning ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • China's Foreign Policy

    by Stuart Harris ...
    Series series China Today
    China’s inexorable rise as a major world power is one of the defining features of the contemporary political landscape. But should we heed the warnings of a so-called ‘China threat?’ Is China set to become the next superpower? Or will its ambitions be tempered by economic and political realities both at home and abroad?In this insightful and balanced analysis, noted China expert Stuart Harris ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Tangled Titans

    The United States and China

    Edited by David Shambaugh ...
    Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many nations. In this definitive book, leading experts provide an in-depth exploration of the historical, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD