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The new issue of MIC is out! In it, we consider the extent to which Xi’s ecological civilisation can be understood as Prometheanism and...

The new issue of MIC is out! In it, we consider the extent to which Xi’s ecological civilisation can be understood as Prometheanism and the price China is paying to transition towards a heavily engineered ‘sustainable’ market utopia. Download FOR FREE at https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/01/19/prometheus-in-china/

||NEW PROFILE|| on the People's Map of Global China.China’s engagement with Algeria can be traced back to colonial times, when Beijing...

||NEW PROFILE|| on the People's Map of Global China.

China’s engagement with Algeria can be traced back to colonial times, when Beijing backed the country's independence movement. Today, China’s relations with Algeria are among its strongest in Africa and the Arab world, writes Tin Hinane El Kadi.

https://thepeoplesmap.net/country/algeria/

In this essay that takes the tone of a manifesto, Marine Brossard considers the tangping attitude as a political subject, praising its...

In this essay that takes the tone of a manifesto, Marine Brossard considers the tangping attitude as a political subject, praising its subversive potential to help us face our contemporary global crises.

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/01/08/lying-flat-profiling-the-tangping-attitude/

We look forward to a new year of exciting initiatives in 2023, and we hope you will continue to follow us with the same interest! /END

We look forward to a new year of exciting initiatives in 2023, and we hope you will continue to follow us with the same interest! /END

Finally, throughout the year, the editorial board of the 'People's Map of Global China', another sister project of ours, has...

Finally, throughout the year, the editorial board of the 'People's Map of Global China', another sister project of ours, has worked to expand the coverage of Chinese engagements overseas for the Map. 9/

https://thepeoplesmap.net/peoples-map-of-global-china/

In September, we established a new collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, sharing content in a joint monthly newsletter....

In September, we established a new collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, sharing content in a joint monthly newsletter. The latest issue can be viewed here: https://a6d3i7.emailsp.com/f/rnl.aspx/?fif=qwxr/_&x=pv&bje=s_.l-=s18.9.:=&f3g95i60be95:i9e&x=pp&q/0.9.:56bf299g=q2NCLM. 8/

In August, we released 'Out of Time', a new issue of MIC guest edited by Matthew Galway in which we unpacked feelings of yearning...

In August, we released 'Out of Time', a new issue of MIC guest edited by Matthew Galway in which we unpacked feelings of yearning for pasts real, imagined, and somewhere in between in the Sinophone world. 7/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/07/28/out-of-time/

Also in July, we released 'Global China as Method' by Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere with Cambridge University Press, a...

Also in July, we released 'Global China as Method' by Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere with Cambridge University Press, a critique of current discussions on China that weaves together various themes and ideas that have been covered in our journal over the years. 6/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/global-china-as-method/E384D0A1545B1DBC554C878C3012011D

In July, we launched a new sister journal, the 'Global China Pulse', focused on China’s international engagements and linked to...

In July, we launched a new sister journal, the 'Global China Pulse', focused on China’s international engagements and linked to 'The People's Map of Global China'. You can download the inaugural issue from https://thepeoplesmap.net/globalchinapulse/global-china-pulse-1-2022/. 5/

In June, we released 'Proletarian China', edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace, a mosaic of perspectives on what being a...

In June, we released 'Proletarian China', edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace, a mosaic of perspectives on what being a worker meant in China over the past century. The book can be bought from Verso Books or downloaded for free at
https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/12/01/proletarian-china/ 4/

In February, we released ‘Being Water’, a special issue of MIC guest edited by Shui-yin Sharon Yam taking stock of the aftermath of the...

In February, we released ‘Being Water’, a special issue of MIC guest edited by Shui-yin Sharon Yam taking stock of the aftermath of the 2019 movement in Hong Kong and reflecting on the changes that are taking place in the city’s political and civil society. 3/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/03/09/being-water/

In January, we worked with ANU Press to release ‘Xinjiang Year Zero’, edited by Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini, and Nicholas Loubere....

In January, we worked with ANU Press to release ‘Xinjiang Year Zero’, edited by Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini, and Nicholas Loubere. The book, available for free download, aims to document and analyse what is happening in Xinjiang, as well as to propose action. 2/

https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/xinjiang-year-zero

In an academic landscape dominated by commercial publishers that put up paywalls unaffordable to most, we at the Made in #China Journal...

In an academic landscape dominated by commercial publishers that put up paywalls unaffordable to most, we at the Made in #China Journal pride ourselves on being entirely #OpenAccess. Here are a few more openly accessible projects that came to fruition this year. 1/

No. 1 is Mary Ann O’Donnell’s account of Shenzhen’s response to the Omicron outbreak, in which she examines how technocratic methods...

No. 1 is Mary Ann O’Donnell’s account of Shenzhen’s response to the Omicron outbreak, in which she examines how technocratic methods and ideologies of trust in the Party-State were deployed to control the outbreak. /END

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/04/22/covid-among-us-viral-mobilities-in-shenzhens-moral-geography/

No. 2 is Christian Sorace and Nicholas Loubere's critique of how the libertarian right framed the A4 protests in China as vindication of...

No. 2 is Christian Sorace and Nicholas Loubere's critique of how the libertarian right framed the A4 protests in China as vindication of their own stance against any biopolitical state interventions. 10/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/12/02/biopolitical-binaries-or-how-not-to-read-the-chinese-protests/

No. 3 is Jing Wang’s examination of podcasts released during the Shanghai lockdown, in which she highlights how lockdown sound diaries...

No. 3 is Jing Wang’s examination of podcasts released during the Shanghai lockdown, in which she highlights how lockdown sound diaries served as defiant gestures in uncertain times, making fun out of bitterness. 9/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/04/27/lockdown-sound-diaries/

No. 4 is Björn Alpermann’s reflection on the ethical compromises that are acceptable in order to do research in and about China....

No. 4 is Björn Alpermann’s reflection on the ethical compromises that are acceptable in order to do research in and about China. 8/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/06/27/ethics-in-social-science-research-on-china/

No. 5 is Promise Li on the harkening back to the ‘national character’ discourse by many liberal Sinophone dissident scholars in the...

No. 5 is Promise Li on the harkening back to the ‘national character’ discourse by many liberal Sinophone dissident scholars in the 1980s and Hong Kong cultural critics in the 2000s as a reaction against decades of class discourse in China. 7/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/03/08/from-the-chinese-national-character-debates-of-yesterday-to-the-anti-china-foreign-policy-of-today/

No. 6 is Sigrid Schmalzer’s reading of recent environmental projects of the Chinese state as deeply embedded in economic and systems...

No. 6 is Sigrid Schmalzer’s reading of recent environmental projects of the Chinese state as deeply embedded in economic and systems thinking, two ideologies that foster technocratic and growth-oriented approaches to managing the natural environment. 6/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/09/27/prometheus-and-the-fishpond/

No. 7 is Petula Sik Ying Ho and Minnie Ming Li’s provocative analysis of the politics of the Hong Kong protest movement and the...

No. 7 is Petula Sik Ying Ho and Minnie Ming Li’s provocative analysis of the politics of the Hong Kong protest movement and the displacement of feminism within it. 5/

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2022/03/08/a-feminist-snap-feminism-in-hong-kong/