MCLC: Made in China no. 4

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Made in China no. 4
Dear Colleagues,
I am glad to announce the publication of the fourth issue of Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights. You can download the pdf for free and subscribe at this link: http://www.chinoiresie.info/madeinchina. Below you can find the editorial of the new issue:
Eye in the Sky: Views on State Control in China
To wrap up a tumultuous year in Chinese labour and civil society, we are pleased to announce the publication of the fourth issue of Made in China. Among the most notable events in the last quarter are the protests that erupted at two Guangzhou plants owned by Sony and Danone following the announcement that the factories would be sold to local Chinese companies. Other significant happenings include a series of blasts at Chinese coal mines that claimed dozens of lives and prompted widespread public questioning of the commitment of the authorities to workplace safety in the mining sector, as well as the sentencing of Meng Han—the last labour activist on trial as part of the crackdown of December 2015—to twenty-one months in prison.
In the China Columns section, we present three essays that offer distinct perspectives on how the party-state manages an increasingly unequal and fractured society. In The Neglected Side of the Coin: Legal Hegemony, Class Consciousness, and Labour Politics in China, Elaine Sio-ieng Hui reflects on the role of labour law in China as ‘a vital vehicle through which the Chinese party-state has constructed capitalist hegemony with regard to state-capital-labour relations in the country’. In Migrant Labour and the Sustainability of China’s Welfare System, Beatriz Carrillo Garcia outlines the trajectory of China’s welfare system towards the inclusion of migrant labour and highlights the challenges posed by the economic slowdown. Finally, in What Does Wukan Have to Do With Democracy?, Luigi Tomba analyses the protests that recently took place in Wukan village, challenging some widely-held assumptions about the political nature of such land-related social movements in the Chinese countryside.
In this issue, you will also find a forum on Narratives of Labour Activism: Informalisation or Empowerment?, in which Anita Chan, Kaxton Siu, and Sarah Swider discuss how precarisation has impacted the Chinese workforce in key sectors of the economy. In the Work of Arts section, Ivan Franceschini reviews The Cow and the Goat Descend the Mountain, an album of ancient Chinese poems set to music by folk singer Zhou Yunpeng, reflecting on the role of poetry as a form of resistance. We conclude with the Academic Watch, which introduces the edited volume China at Work through a conversation with co-editor Liu Mingwei.
This journal is hosted by Chinoiresie.info. In the final pages of this issue, you can find highlights from the website. If you would like to contribute a piece of writing, please contact us; to receive this journal regularly by email, please subscribe to our mailing list. We welcome any feedback and we hope you will consider sharing this journal with your friends and colleagues.
The Editors
Ivan Franceschini (ivan.franceschini at anu.edu.au), Kevin Lin, and Nicholas Loubere
by denton.2 at osu.edu on December 22, 2016
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