Analysis of economic crisis in China, translated from new German project Gongchao

Overview of the situation of migrant workers & their struggles over the past few years.

Special issue of EPW on postsocialist capitalism in China, featuring articles by Ching Kwan Lee & Selden, Riskin, Bramall, Wang Shaoguang, Weil, Pun Ngai, Li Minqi, Dale Wen, Dic Lo & Yu Zhang

Ethnographic study of young women from rural Anhui who work in Beijing as domestics, "the best book to date on migrant labor, gendered domestic labor, and capitalist transformation in China"

Reflecting on Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing, Joel Andreas traces the path of property relations, social services and income distribution in the PRC since the late seventies, reaching unambiguous conclusions.

Summer 2008 issue of boundary 2 w/ intro by Dirlik & contributions by Wang Shaoguang, Alex Day, Pun Ngai, Han Shaogong, and Wang Hui, among others

Influential literary historian Wang Hui's first investigation into the struggles of the Chinese working class against neoliberal restructuring and dispossession, in his home town of Yangzhou

examines 3 areas where class conflicts have arisen as a result of China's integration as a distinct epicentre in the US-centred world accumulation of capital

Is socialist revolution necessary? Under what conditions? How far should it go? If the revolution is “defeated,” was it still worth undertaking? And finally, who gets to decide these questions, and write the history of revolutionary change?

Important new book published by Pluto Press: THE BATTLE FOR CHINA'S PAST: Mao and the Cultural Revolution by Mobo Gao.

"A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang’s recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed." Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff