This essay examines the global reproduction of China’s ‘dormitory labour regime’ (DLR) through a comparative analysis of special economic zones (SEZs). It argues that Chinese-inspired SEZ-based indust...

Jian Lin, Wilfred Yang Wang, and Ping Sun’s Chinese Platforms: A Critical Introduction (Polity Press, 2025) is one of the first English-language books to offer a systematic examination of Chinese digi...

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.

Involution is the first book to present a detailed account of how the people coming of age in China’s post-miracle moment navigate job searches, exploitation, educational competition, and familial pre...

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to suppres...

Seen from above, the island of Bangka is etched with scars: open pits and flooded craters that bear witness to centuries of tin extraction. This landscape is

The West ignores the warning signs in the Sahel at its own peril.

Die Sinologin Marina Rudyak erklärt, was China und seinen mächtigen Staatschef Xi Jinping antreibt, wer neben ihm das Sagen hat, welche Rolle seine Frau spielt – und wie Peking über Europa, Amerika un...

As Europe’s biggest economy is pummelled by structural problems and external threats, rocky China ties are compounding the dreary picture.

Countries contemplating letting Chinese firms invest in areas like EVs should seek to emulate China’s strategy in full.

Tanzania’s Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.

How does the paideía of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?

Those affected by a catastrophic spill at a copper mine in Chambishi say the authorities are not doing enough

In Deutschland nach mehr Chinakompetenz zu rufen, aber immer weniger dafür zu tun, kann nicht funktionieren, sagt Joanna Klabisch von der Stiftung Asienhaus.

A counter-archive of found and crowd-sourced photographs from Zambia’s past.

Speaker: Yu Sun, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow

World maps are not neutral and marginalize Africa, says the “Correct the Map” campaign. The European side should therefore review its map...

China’s appetite for critical minerals, fossil fuel, timber, and other commodities is the subject of countless news articles and has created anxiety in capital cities around the world. The dominant narrative is one of concern over Beijing’s dominance of global supply chains. Yet while the country clearly exhibits strengths as a commodity superpower, it also suffers from

From August 31 to September 1, China hosted twenty foreign leaders in Tianjin for a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, the biggest meeting since the formation of the security group in 2002. Group photos of all the attendees and video and photos of Xi Jinping enjoying moments of bonhomie with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Jingjing Zhang has fought polluting Chinese companies for decades. Now she’s teaching lawyers across the Global South how to do the same. Her work has never been more urgent.

The World Order without the US is gradually taking shape.