An unprecedented, national wave of protests and labor actions have swept China. This Spectre Live panel moderated by David McNally and featuring Eli Friedman, Stephanie Wang, Rayhan Asat, and Tobita Chow will examine the roots of the uprising, the various struggles expressed in it, as well as its impact and possible trajectory.

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Moderator:

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of several books including Blood and Money, Global Slump, and Monsters of the Market.

Speakers:

Eli Friedman teaches in the department of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell University and is the author of The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City (Columbia 2022). He is also the co-editor of The China Question: Toward Left Perspectives (Verso 2022).

Rayhan Asat is a Uyghur human rights advocate and Tom & Andi Bernstein Fellow at Yale Law School. Since 2020, she has led a public campaign for the release of her brother, Ekpar Asat, who has been held in the Xinjiang internment camp system since 2016, and on behalf of the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China.

Stephanie Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at St. Lawrence University. Her work focuses on feminist political economy, labor, affect, NGO politics and queer studies. She is the author of “Unfinished Revolution: An Overview of Three Decades of LGBT Activism in China,” in Made in China Journal.

Tobita Chow is the founding Director of Justice Is Global, which organizes for a just and sustainable global economy and an end to right-wing nationalism. He is a leading progressive critic of the rise of great power conflict between the US and China and the threat this trend poses to progressive forces in both countries.

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