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 digital platforms across technology, geopolitics, business, culture, gender, and labour. For decades, scholarship on Chinese platforms has been shaped by a dichotomy: either viewing them […]
Western multinational corporations have increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of the Chinese Communist Party. In the second week of October, the US National Basketball Association became embroiled in a predicament after Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted his support for the ongoing pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong. In the wake of […]
The Chinese government has expanded its crackdown on civil society. Since 2015, hundreds of human rights lawyers, feminists, and labour activists have been harassed, detained and sentenced to prison sentences. In 2018, workers’ demands to unionise at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Company drew the backing of left-wing students from elite universities. According to media reports, 30 […]
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