Made in China Journal
A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights
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A Hundred Flowers: A Conversation with Dayton Lekner
In A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Dayton Lekner presents a detailed historical account of the influence of literary practice and circulation on Mao Zedong–era politics and mass campaigns in China. His approach differs from…
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Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past: Reactionary Politics in China
When the libertarian looks upon society, he does not see isolated individuals; he sees private, often hierarchical, groups, where a father governs his family and an owner his employees. —Corey Robin (2011: 16) What is reactionary politics? The global resurgence of the…
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Episode 13 | Arise, Workers of China
Growing up in 1990s China, Yangyang encountered two contradictory narratives about what it meant to be a worker. In older periodicals and occasionally in state media, workers were hailed as the ‘master class’ and being one was glorious. Many of her relatives and teachers,…
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On Bureaucratic Ownership: From Anti-Bureaucratism to Anti-Official Profiteering
Scholars have long debated whether the transition from the Mao Zedong era to Deng Xiaoping’s Reform and Opening Up was a moment of rupture or continuity. One influential view holds that the 1980s saw a rise of Western-influenced liberalism (Calhoun 1994) and Deng’s program…
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Homesick Nation: A Conversation with Linda Qian
Linda Qian’s Homesick Nation: Development, Migration and Yearning in Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines rural development in contemporary China through the lens of 乡愁 xiangchou, a concept connoting homesickness and rural nostalgia. Centred on Heyang, a…
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Agricultural Drones: Material Afterlives of Mao’s Green Revolution
The four propellers begin to spin. A gust of wind presses down the surrounding rice plants as a pulsing rotor-whir fills the air. The drone, carrying its battery and a tank of pesticides, lifts off and stabilises, hovering briefly before angling towards the fields. It…
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Episode 12 | Entrapped by E-Commerce
Life before e-commerce can feel like a foreign country. For the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd, fresh meals and fancy gadgets delivered to your doorstep almost instantly, at astonishingly low prices, are among the country’s top draws. Yet these conveniences come with hidden costs, and…
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China’s Approach to AI: Infrastructural Statecraft, Managed Pluralism
China’s artificial intelligence (AI) trajectory is often characterised as ‘frugal innovation’ (Waters 2025), ‘self-reliance’ (Wang et al. 2025), or a state-controlled approach to innovation and diffusion (Roberts et al. 2021). Many observers have focused on China’s AI policy and…
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Making Transnational Ballroom in China
Ballroom culture emerged in Black and Latinx communities in the United States in the twentieth century as drag balls (Jones 2017). In the middle of the century, it developed into a comprehensive system of competitive balls between ‘houses’ competing to win category prizes such…
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Hostile Landscapes: A Conversation with Zhang Hanwen
In October 2021, Ju Hyeongeon (朱贤健), a North Korean defector held in Jilin Prison in Northeast China, broke out of the facility and spent 40 days on the run before he was caught near the Fengman Dam, a site with a long history of Japanese colonial engineering. Artist Zhang…
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Burnout Market Feminism: A Conversation with Ling Tang
In Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age (MIT Press, 2026), Ling Tang invites readers to explore the aspirations, achievements, and everyday struggles of women at the forefront of China’s digital economy. Through the stories of elite…