So over the past year or two I’ve read a LOT on china. I thought it might be a bit inappropriate not to share with ya’ll. I’ve definitely read much more, but these are the ones that are the most memorable/I’ve saved. These won’t be organized in any sort of way, but each article will be accompanied by a short description.

Personally I wouldn’t treat this as a checklist to read, but just read what you find interesting and go from there. I think it would be incredibly cool if people drop more resources here in the comments and this becomes a one-stop shop for China resources.

I just made an effort-comment and I thought, huh I haven’t made an effort-post in quite a bit, so here we are.

Qiao Collective

I’ve practically read every single article published by qiao collective and I cannot recommend it enough as a place to get started. https://www.qiaocollective.com/ A few in particular I will point to

Shattering the Iron Wall about China, Palestine, and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

This is a Great Struggle About lenovo, compradors, and socialist construction.

The Revival of Capital and the Left Turn of the Mental Laborer. Amazing piece on the history and development of chinese capital, and how material conditions radicalize(or de-radicalize?, because becoming a commie in china is conforming rather than being non-conformist?) people. Material analysis of internal contradictions and the contradiction of capitalist and marxist thought in China itself. If you can’t tell by how long this description is I love this article.

Why Rebel? A chinese person looks at america and goes like god damn ya’ll’s contradictions r bad there.

American “Revolution”: The “Black Hole” of American Electioneering and the Lessons China Must Draw A (different) chinese person looks at america’s electoral system, goes god damn, and gives a very good analysis of how it serves to placate dissent.

I love the chinese person looks at america and writes an analysis genre, there’s another on the texas snowstorm and american covid response, but for the sake of brevity I won’t delve into them.

How Chinese Socialism is Defeating the Coronavirus Outbreak

The Metamorphosis of Yuangudui, a piece on poverty alleviation.

I linked a bit more of Qiao Collective than I intended, but I truly stand by my statement that they’ve done some truly good work translating and writing articles.

Inside China Business

I really do quite enjoy his channel and analysis. I’ve heard from some other people here that he has some bad takes, but those bad takes don’t make it onto his analysis videos. I am a regular viewer of the channel and would recommend if you like stuff on industry.

CGTN Documentaries

The lockdown: One month in Wuhan , on the Wuhan pandemic response.

China’s war on poverty (Must watch), a documentary behind the process of the campaign on poverty alleviation. It’s genuinely incredibly well thought out and incredibly uplifting to see the amazing work being done. Again, please watch this it’s incredible I think.

Gay Leap Forward: LGBT in China

More Articles

Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: My Experience of China Today (2024) good account of the development that china has gone through

Article on Xi Jinping Thought .

“Managed competition” in China’s state firms

How a Chinese Engineer on the Ground Reveal About China-Africa Relation?

For my chinese-american comrades, a poignant reflection on chinese-americanness in the modern day.

Giving immigrant workers urban identities: what can be done?. On the Hukou system.

Is High-speed Rail in China a “Gray Rhino”?, tl;dr, no.

Ma Dugong: glad that we are all clowns in different makeup. Not directly related to Communism but a good read.

How Chinese TVs chip away at U.S. market shares

How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

Chinese economy hinges on market reform & rule of law, NOT monetary or fiscal policy, says Zhang Weiying. Very interesting take that I haven’t had the time to re-read and digest but interested to hear other people’s thoughts on.

shanzhai. on counterfeit, and open source

Authors/Blogs to check out

CriticalResist. CriticalResist, in the case that you are reading this, love your articles and keep up the good work. Your article about design has actually helped me in college as well, it’s always a treat to see you pop up in my inbox.

Construction Physics, not exclusively about china, but some good writing about china, and just construction in general.

East is Read Good articles to keep up with china news.

Bejing Channel, just some news.

Crossing the River. Very much a blog type author. Hear about china and real chinese people through the author’s experiences.

Ginger River Review. Explainers and things about chinese society.

Threadings not about china(sorry!), but I absolutely adore their work.

Red Sails, good articles would reccomend

dessalines. Not about china but very good primer to people to, hey maybe capitalism isn’t all that great.

The East is Still Red - Book. decent. Red Star over China. Account of the CPC before the revolution.

In Defense of the Soviet Union. Not about china either, but good video.

Dongsheng news, but their website seems broken… I believe some of their stuff can be seen here, but I have not really checked it out yet.

Jerry’s Take on China, chill dude i like him good videos, disclaimer: apparently transphobic according to a commenter below. Do approach videos with care and take what he says with a grain of salt, but good source to send to libs and introduce people who might not know much about china.

EDIT: somehow I forgot about ben norton, https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport very good analysis on china, and the broader world highly reccomend

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