Perhaps the most curious thing about COVID-19 is not its complicated pathology,its rapid mutations,the fact that many are infected and remain symptomless while others die,or that some experience a debilitating long ve...Perhaps the most curious thing about COVID-19 is not its complicated pathology,its rapid mutations,the fact that many are infected and remain symptomless while others die,or that some experience a debilitating long version of the disease set in after the initial infection.Rather,in our highly globalized world,the rapid spread and almost universal human encounter with the disease has become a threshold moment in human history.While other pandemics have come and gone in the past,and while scientists promise us COVID-19 is the first of many more to come,most of us will demarcate our lives in two periods:before the outbreak and after.展开更多
In contemporary political parlance,to speak of China’s modernization path is to refer to a specific,official conceptualization of both historical and ongoing efforts to develop China as a fully modernized nation,ther...In contemporary political parlance,to speak of China’s modernization path is to refer to a specific,official conceptualization of both historical and ongoing efforts to develop China as a fully modernized nation,thereby culminating the major efforts associated with national rejuvenation and doing so within a century of the People’s Republic of China’s founding in 1949.展开更多
In contemporary international discourse,the “global China” concept,as it’s generally used,risks imagining China in the first instance as a hegemony-seeking project.Some explain this as a reasonable position to asse...In contemporary international discourse,the “global China” concept,as it’s generally used,risks imagining China in the first instance as a hegemony-seeking project.Some explain this as a reasonable position to assert within a realist international relations perspective.It’s certainly guiding Washington thinking,becoming explicitly clear in a recently published summary fact sheet about America’s national defense strategy,obsessing over China as a rising threat.展开更多
I was teaching English at Liaoning University in Shenyang, capital of the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, in 1998, my first year in the country. It was a formative experience for me and my career has been c...I was teaching English at Liaoning University in Shenyang, capital of the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, in 1998, my first year in the country. It was a formative experience for me and my career has been connected to China in one way or another ever since. I’d already worked as a public health officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and spent time around the world at that point.展开更多
No Marxist has ever lived during a period when capitalism didn’t exist,when it wasn’t already globally hegemonic.The argument that some places came to capitalism later,or that they arrived via state capitalism and e...No Marxist has ever lived during a period when capitalism didn’t exist,when it wasn’t already globally hegemonic.The argument that some places came to capitalism later,or that they arrived via state capitalism and emphasized social welfare or even socialist values,does hold up.Humanity is now,and has long been.展开更多
文摘Perhaps the most curious thing about COVID-19 is not its complicated pathology,its rapid mutations,the fact that many are infected and remain symptomless while others die,or that some experience a debilitating long version of the disease set in after the initial infection.Rather,in our highly globalized world,the rapid spread and almost universal human encounter with the disease has become a threshold moment in human history.While other pandemics have come and gone in the past,and while scientists promise us COVID-19 is the first of many more to come,most of us will demarcate our lives in two periods:before the outbreak and after.
文摘In contemporary political parlance,to speak of China’s modernization path is to refer to a specific,official conceptualization of both historical and ongoing efforts to develop China as a fully modernized nation,thereby culminating the major efforts associated with national rejuvenation and doing so within a century of the People’s Republic of China’s founding in 1949.
文摘In contemporary international discourse,the “global China” concept,as it’s generally used,risks imagining China in the first instance as a hegemony-seeking project.Some explain this as a reasonable position to assert within a realist international relations perspective.It’s certainly guiding Washington thinking,becoming explicitly clear in a recently published summary fact sheet about America’s national defense strategy,obsessing over China as a rising threat.
文摘I was teaching English at Liaoning University in Shenyang, capital of the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, in 1998, my first year in the country. It was a formative experience for me and my career has been connected to China in one way or another ever since. I’d already worked as a public health officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and spent time around the world at that point.
文摘No Marxist has ever lived during a period when capitalism didn’t exist,when it wasn’t already globally hegemonic.The argument that some places came to capitalism later,or that they arrived via state capitalism and emphasized social welfare or even socialist values,does hold up.Humanity is now,and has long been.
