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lumpen 🍉 III @scrum@wanderingwires.net
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some reading resources on china @yogthos @Arindam

As to what sources are reliable a rule of thumb I look at two criteria: 1.The quality of the research they do: Are they drawing from a variety primary texts and reliable statistics? etc. and 2. What are their political biases and interests? do they have principled and coherent analysis? or are they bourgeois propagandists of some kind?

Academic Texts on China

here's some books i'd recommend

Chinese workers: A New History by Jackie Sheehan, history of labour struggles in PRC from 50's to the 90's link to Download Page

Cultural Revolution At the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis, history of post cultural revolution changes that led to the rise of Deng and market reforms link to Download Page

The Transformation of Chinese Socialism by Lin Chun, good history up to 2000 or so, they are basically reformists in chinese context link to z-lib - need login

"Rethinking ‘Capitalist Restoration’ in China" by Yiching Wu, essay dealing with this question of china's socialist character, i think Monthly Review are trots
full essay

Some leftist blogs about China

Chuang - they're basically
the anarchist line of china
Red Dust - the transition to capitalism in China

The capitalist transformation of rural China: Evidence from “Agrarian Change in Contemporary China"

Chinese Worker Bulletin - just a really cool resource we should emulate
english link

Gongchao, good resources on the Chinese left broadly
english link

Other Marxist / Maoist texts

Communist Party of China Maoist published a document called "China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power: An Integral Part of the Capitalist-Imperialist System" you can guess what that's about
​:ablobfoxexplode:​ other Communist Parties (Maoist) in Asia like in Nepal and the Philippines basically have the same line

*In the Emergence of the New-Imperialist
Countries* tract by these German Maoists that deals in part with china and other countries like India and Brazil that call "new Imperialist states"
PDF

"Is China an Imperialist Country? Considerations and Evidence"
By N. B. Turner, marxist leninist
PDF

out of room but yeah the fact anarchists, trots and maoists all come to similar conclusions is interesting