[DEBATE] : launch of new website - China Left Review

[Nicola Bullard]

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Subject: launch of new website - China Left Review
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 19:57:09 -0700
From: China Study Group <chinastudygroup at gmail.com>
To: n.bullard at focusweb.org

China Study Group is pleased to announce the launch of the bilingual 
web-journal China Left Review: http://www.chinaleftreview.org/. Our 
purpose is to stimulate discussion and collaboration between 
left-leaning scholars and activists in Chinese and English-speaking 
worlds. We seek to do this by compiling, translating, and commenting on 
a variety of works related to controversial and pressing social issues. 
Our focus is on China, including both the struggles of China's 
subordinated classes in today's capitalist context, as well as the 
lessons, positive and negative, that yesterday's socialist experiments 
provide for those struggles. But we hope also to explore how such 
struggles and lessons relate to the struggles of people everywhere 
oppressed by capitalism, patriarchy, and racism, and to contribute to 
the global circulation of struggles toward building a more just, 
sustainable, and inclusive world.

We hope eventually to publish several issues a year full of original 
contributions in both Chinese and English, and translations or summaries 
of all contents in both languages. At this point, however, we are 
running almost entirely on uncompensated labor done when most of us 
should be sleeping or working for capital. As we grow, these stolen 
moments may add up to a proper voluntary workforce, but for now, we are 
limiting our goal to two issues per year, each with a few original 
contributions and translations, and introductory overviews in both 
English and Chinese.

Works originally published here are common property. You are welcome to 
use and circulate this material for non-profit purposes, but please 
indicate that it was originally published by China Left Review.

If you would like to submit a Chinese or English article, essay, story, 
poem, or picture for publication, or if you would like to help us by 
translating or working on the website, please contact us at 
chinastudygroup at gmail.com.

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Issue 1:
The Question of Land Privatization in China's "Urban-Rural Integration"

-Sam Austin: English Introduction

I. Letters to the News Media about Peasant Protests and Village Land Tenure
-Tan Tongxue: How Could the countryside Not Be Lost? Reflections on 
Anderlini's "Losing the Countryside: A Restive Peasantry Calls on 
Beijing for Land Rights"
-Dale Jiajun Wen: China's Poor Protect Communal Land Ownership
-Yan Hairong: The Myth of Private Ownership: Not in the Name of 
Supporting Chinese Farmers

II. Quiet Revolution: De Facto Privatization of Land in the "Urban-Rural 
Integration" Reforms
-Hu Jing: A Critique of Chongqing's New 'Land Reform'

III. Arguments against Land Privatization
-Luke Erickson: Land from the Tiller: The Push for Rural Land 
Privatization in China
-Li Changping: Be Cautious When Talking about Land Privatization

IV. Peasant Land Protection Struggles
-Zhao Ling: Significant shift in focus of peasants' rights activism: An 
interview with rural development researcher Yu Jianrong of the Chinese 
Academy of Social Sciences

V. "New Rural Reconstruction" Efforts to Preserve the Peasant Economy
-Wang Ximing: Villager Teams on the Chengdu Plain: A Study of Jing Village

VI. Rural Collectives Today
-Liu Yongji: Proposing a Cooperative Reform of Collective Village 
Economies like Nanjie Village

VII. Rural Collectives Yesterday
-William Hinton: Mao, Rural Development, and Two-Line Struggle

VIII. Sustainable Development and Common Ownership of Land
-Zhu Jian: Education and Rural Technology Development in the Mao Era: 
Explore their Continuing Significance for the Commons
-Dale Jiajun Wen: Tragedy of No Commons: A Case Study of Environmental 
Challenge in Inner Mongolia

IX. Commentary on Current Affairs
-Robert Weil: A Few Questions on the Tibetan Situation
-Barry Sautman: Protests in Tibet and Separatism: the Olympics and Beyond
-Ben Mah: U.S. Funding for the Tibetan Exiles: Past and Present
-Stephen Gowans: Spielberg: Chauvinist in Humanitarian Drag
-Barry Sautman and Kenneth King: Steven Spielberg, China and Darfur



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Nicola Bullard
Focus on the Global South
CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University
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