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In October 2021, Ju Hyeongeon (朱贤健), a North Korean defector held in Jilin Prison in Northeast China, broke out of the facility and spent 40 days on the run before he was caught near the Fengman Dam, a site with a long history of Japanese colonial engineering. Artist Zhang Hanwen (张瀚文) retraces this journey in […] The post Hostile Landscapes: A Conversation with Zhang Hanwen appeared first on Made in China Journal.
In Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age (MIT Press, 2026), Ling Tang invites readers to explore the aspirations, achievements, and everyday struggles of women at the forefront of China’s digital economy. Through the stories of elite businesswomen navigating e-commerce and the broader internet industry, the book explores how gender, sexuality, entrepreneurship, […] The post Burnout Market Feminism: A Conversation with Ling Tang appeared first on Made in China J
Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话: 悟空; hereinafter BMW), an action role-playing game developed by the Chinese studio Game Science (游戏科学), became both a commercial and a cultural phenomenon after its release on 20 August 2024. BMW belongs to the ‘Souls-like’ genre, named after the Dark Souls series, whose punishing difficulty is by design: it appeals to […] The post ‘Keep Politics in Games’: Reactionary Circuits between the Anglo-European Sphere and China appeared first on Made in China Journal.
In recent years, political depression has emerged not only as a psychological condition but also as a culturally embedded affective response shaped by broader socio-political forces. Clinically, it resembles depression, but its aetiology is tied explicitly to political events and structural disenfranchisement. It manifests as hopelessness, a loss of faith in personal agency, and a […] The post In the Woods appeared first on Made in China Journal.
Dance from and by ethnic minorities constitutes a significant part of how people perceive both ethnic minority cultures in China and Chinese dance at large. However, observers often miss how the staging of contemporary Chinese ethnic folk dance is not a direct representation of some original ‘folk body’. It is, rather, the accumulated product of […] The post To Whom Does Ethnic Folk Dance Belong? appeared first on Made in China Journal.
The road to Long Bow used to be much longer. When American agronomist and author of Fanshen (1966), William Hinton, made the journey to this seemingly unremarkable village in the autumn of 1947, he spent weeks navigating the North China Plain. Travelling at the height of the Chinese Civil War, he traversed territories held by […] The post Secretary Wang’s American Friend: William Hinton and the Long History of ‘Fanshen’ appeared first on Made in China Journal.
Diaspora is conventionally understood as the dispersion of a people from a shared homeland—a formulation that could reproduce binary imaginaries of centre and periphery, origin and afterlife, homeland and shadow. Such frameworks also tend to tether diasporic belonging to lineage and return, treating political life as something transmitted through continuity. As David Eng (2010: 13) […] The post From Political Depression to Creative Praxis appeared first on Made in China Journal.
The need for food and medicine is universal. Yet, few subjects have stirred as much nationalistic debates on both sides of the Pacific as the development and application of biotechnologies. Why, in a country scarred by famine like China, did the public turn against genetically modified crops? Should medicine be a commodity, and if so, […] The post Episode 11 | To Feed and to Cure appeared first on Made in China Journal.
In her new book, The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society (University of Michigan Press, 2026), Mujun Zhou provides an ambitious and insightful account of the concept of ‘civil society’ (公民社会) as an ideational movement that informs, inspires, and at times conflicts with the development of Chinese civil society, from the early 1990s to […] The post The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society appeared first on Made in China Journal.
Environmental historians of modern China have often examined how states transformed landscapes in pursuit of economic development and ideological visions of remaking nature. In Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2025), Micah Muscolino shifts the focus from the environmental outcomes of conservation to the […] The post Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People appeared first on Made in China Journal.
