The Chinese Workers and the Making and Unmaking of the Socialist Project, a lecture by Yueran Zhang
This event is organized by Chinese Student Democratic Socialists (CSDS) and sponsored by the UW-Madison Department of Sociology, the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, the Department of History, and the Center for the Humanities.
Yueran Zhang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where Yueran’s research focuses on the comparative studies of capitalism(s), socialism(s), and transitions in between. Yueran is also a proud union member who participated in Harvard and UC graduate worker’s union campaign. In this talk, Yueran will present work from his project on class-politics explanation of China’s transition from socialism to capitalism, and provide a bold rethinking of what it means to understand socialism, capitalism, democracy, authoritarianism, and class subjectivity comparatively and transnationally.
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