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LEE, Ching Kwan and Ming SING, (eds). 2019. Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Take Back Our Future offers a detailed account of the 79-day Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong’s contemporary political history. Using an interdisciplinary approach of social…

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BONINO, Michele, Francesca GOVERNA, Maria Paola REPELLINO, and Angelo SAMPIERI (eds.). 2019. The City after Chinese New Towns: Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China. Basel: Birkhäuser.

Since the mid-2000s, the development of Chinese towns has brought about radical change not only to urban and rural spaces but also to temporalities and…

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Protesting with Text and Image: Four Publications on the 2019 Pro-democracy Movement from Hong Kong Civil Society

Introduction On 4 September 2019, the Hong Kong government officially announced the withdrawal of a highly contentious extradition law that had sent more than two…

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“Rappers React to Covid-19”: What the Mobilisation of Chinese Rappers Teaches Us about Artistic Engagement in Times of Crisis

 “It’s for the soldiers fighting in the hospitals all night Thanks for the lanterns lighting up the dark” — AR ft. Q.luv[1] The “ad hoc…

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Yugong Yishan: Myth, Utopia, and Community in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art

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Afterword

It is a great pleasure for us to see that the notion of a “multiplication of labour,” originally elaborated in our book Border as Method…

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The Forming of E-platform-driven Flexible Specialisation: How E-commerce Platforms Have Changed China’s Garment Industry Supply Chains and Labour Relations

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Platform Labour and Contingent Agency in China

Introduction The question of how digital technologies have changed the employment structure in China leads to no easy answer. Some scholars see digital workers as…

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Bordering Work and Personal Life: Using “the Multiplication of Labour” to Understand Ethnic Performers’ Work in Southwest China

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Edito – Precarity, Platforms, and Agency: The Multiplication of Chinese Labour

“I want my blood and sweat money back” (Wo yao wode xuehan qian 我要我的血汗錢): these are the words of Liu Jin 劉進, a 47-year-old delivery…

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