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Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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What Is the Ending of Socialism in China?

pania says china is not simply the lucky survivor of the twentieth century's crisis in socialism. Pania: The future of socialist theory and systems is staked to china's success or failure. Could you tell us a little bit more about socialist futures, or the chinese communist party imagination thereof?pania: I was really interested in actually how flexible and enduring a particular kind of state formation could be. But one would have to track that through its experimental quality, and not through its sort of coherence.

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