
NBN Classic: Rebecca E. Karl, “China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History” (Verso, 2020)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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China and the Global Um Split in the 1950s and 1960s
China always placed itself in relation to colonized peoples racially ethnically politically economically and ideologically. China also elaborated through the early years of the 1950s what we have come to call a third worldist or in even newer terms a south-south sort of sensibility which starts to get really elaborated in the late 1950s and uh and into the 1960s. Alongside the socialist capitalist split you also have the anti-colonial revolutionary wars that are being fought in Africa and parts of Asia and so on versus the colonial powers.
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