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Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online!
academic.oup.com/book/62722
The print version will come out next month.
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Really thoughtful ‘letter to Marx’ by a Chinese netizen on WeChat (now censored) reflecting on delivery worker labor activist Feng Rui’s recent disappearance by the state, labor conditions in China today, while engaging with excerpts of Marx.
at.laborinfocn6.com/articles…
looking forward to a couple of book events this autumn, starting with the EISA conference in Lisbon next week!
ALT poster. text: Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China book conversations. 2 Sept Lisbon 22 Sept Lund October London
ticked off the list: @NewBooksNetwork podcast!
it was really great to talk to Ed Pulford about the book and he made a brilliant introduction!
newbooksnetwork.com/easting-…
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Proud to be one of the signatories of this letter in Solidarity with politcal prisoners in Iran.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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People inside Iran are not symbols of anti-imperialism. They are not a tool for “bringing down the empire” for you. They are not there for you to hold up their corpses as symbols of the cruelty of the empire, and be silent whenever who killed them was the state you fetishize.
this claim is unsourced and misleading. It was true in 2004 but not in 2023. In 2023 most people attribute it to unequal opportunity and unfair system bigdatachina.csis.org/is-it-…
our piece on meritocratic nationalism
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Surveys show that most Chinese citizens believe that poverty is due to individual failings and laziness, and only 25% support redistribution.
The country’s brutal winner-takes-all examination system helps foster this ideology. jacobin.com/2026/08/china-ed…
if you want to read about the gaokao & inequality beyond simplistic stories
chenchenzhang.net/2026/07/12…
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"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
she's US trained through and through so I wouldn't attribute the alt-right ideas to "Chinese intellectual culture". however, the popularity of her podcast tells you sth about the popularity of alt-right ideas in China. and guess what I wrote a book on it
academic.oup.com/book/62722
This interview of Christopher Nolan by the Chinese student Yiyang Zhuge is getting attention. I find it politically tendentious, though, and inflected by curiously 'alt-right' ideas about the celebration of war and the rightful pride of great men. These ideas don't add much to Homer, though may be insightful about modern Chinese intellectual culture. [1/n]
this is a very good (and very long) analysis of the podcast and the phenomenon
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DzPkSBW55…
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On this topic, highly recommend @chenchenzh 's new book, Easting the West (Oxford University Press, 2026)
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ICYMI: I joined the SPRC podcast to talk about my book, digital reactionary discourse, and our own Shicha podcast & the new Chinese diaspora
on.soundcloud.com/vO1SgWFnvU…
many thanks to Clyde Yicheng Wang for engaging with my book and raising generative questions. I really enjoyed this conversation for @MIC_Journal , and I hope you do as well!
madeinchinajournal.com/2026/…
one exam, 31 contests. I wrote about the geography of the gaokao.
to get why much of the recurring debates about the gaokao are centred on regional inequalities and perceptions of privilege and unfairness, one has to know the provincial quota system.
chenchenzhang.net/2026/07/12…
I wrote a "casual" introduction to the book, starting with an anecdote about my mom and I getting into an argument about the use of antibiotics. chenchenzhang.net/2026/06/25…
take a look and I hope the book could make it to your summer reading list!
📚Introduction free to download📚
It's the official release day of my book and OUP has made the Introduction chapter free to read.
academic.oup.com/book/62722/…
Take a look if you're interested in... why do I want to study ideas of 'the west' from without, why do I want to theorize
I just discovered that my book is available on Kindle and Google Play at a relatively reasonable price (yep no one told me that and I had to find out myself)
there's also free sample to read, in case it could be useful
play.google.com/store/books/…
amazon.co.uk/Easting-West-Po…
Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online!
academic.oup.com/book/62722
The print version will come out next month.
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ retweeted
Thank you @chenchenzh and Yimin for hosting me at 时差 inbetweenness podcast 🎙️open.spotify.com/episode/4z1…
