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Introduction (Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace)
1 The unabridged translation of Deng Zhongxiaâs essay about his trip to Changxindian is included in this volume. See the chapter âA Day Trip to Changxindianâ (1920).
2 For Deng Zhongxiaâs early years and contribution to the Chinese labour movement, see Daniel Y.K. Kwan. 1997. Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement: A Study of Deng Zhongxia 1894â1933. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
3 For an account of the Jasic struggle, see Manfred Elfstromâs essay about 2018 in the present volume.
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9 Ibid., 107, 114.
10 Wang Hui. 2020. âHow Does the Phoenix Achieve Nirvana?â Made in China Journal 5, no. 1: 94â103.
11 See Lin Chunâs essay about 1921 in the present volume.
12 For a detailed account of competing political visions of labour in late-Imperial and early Republican China, see S.A. Smith. 2002. Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895â1927. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
13 See Gail Hershatterâs essay about 1925 in the present volume; RanciĂšre, The Philosopher and His Poor, 137.
14 On these debates about the âmakingâ and âunmakingâ of the Chinese working class, see Pun Ngai and Chris King-Chi Chan. 2008. âThe Subsumption of Class Discourse in China.â Boundary 2 35, no. 2: 75â91; William Hurst. 2016. âThe Chinese Working Class: Made, Unmade, in Itself, for Itself, or None of the Above?â Made in China Journal 1, no. 2: 11â14.
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17 On the right to strike in China, see Fang Lee Cooke and Chang Kai. 2015. âLegislating the Right to Strike in China: Historical Development and Prospects.â Journal of Industrial Relations 57, no. 3: 440â55.
18 See the essays by Chen Feng about 1957, by Patricia Thornton about 1967, the 1951 speech by Li Lisan, and the 1957 interview by Lai Ruoyu in the present volume.
19 On the dossier, see Michael Dutton. 2004. âMango Mao: Infections of the Sacred.â Public Culture 16, no. 2: 161â88; Jie Yang. 2011. âThe Politics of the Dangâan: Spectralization, Spatialization, and Neoliberal Governmentality.â Anthropological Quarterly 84, no. 2: 507â33; Jie Li. 2020. Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Ch. 1.
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21 Andreas, Disenfranchised, 8â9.
22 Kevin Lin. 2019. âWork Unit.â In Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi, edited by Christian Sorace, Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere. Canberra and London: ANU Press and Verso Books, 331â34.
23 Christian Sorace. 2020. âMetrics of Exceptionality, Simulated Intimacy.â Critical Inquiry 46: 555â77.
24 See Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardiâs essay about 1968 in the present volume.
25 RanciĂšre, The Philosopher and His Poor, 219.
26 On anamorphosis, see Slavoj ĆœiĆŸek. 1992. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
27 Feng Chen. 2007. âIndividual Rights and Collective Rights: Laborâs Predicament in China.â Communist and Post-Communist Studies 40, no. 1: 59â79.
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29 On this subject, see also Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace. 2019. âIn the Name of the Working Class: Narratives of Labour Activism in Contemporary China.â Pacific Affairs 92, no. 4: 643â64.
30 Alessandro Russo. 2019. âClass Struggle.â In Afterlives of Chinese Communism, 29â35, at p. 34.
31 See Jude Howellâs essay about 1995 and ChloĂ© Froissart and Ivan Franceschiniâs essay about 2015 in the present volume.
32 RanciĂšre, The Philosopher and His Poor, 224.
33 Jacques RanciĂšre (translated by John Drury). 2012. Proletarian Nights: The Workersâ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France. London: Verso Books, 10.
34 Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party.
35 For analysis of the preservation of communist leadersâ corpses, see Alexei Yurchak. 2015. âBodies of Lenin: The Hidden Science of Communist Sovereignty.â Representations 129, no. 1: 116â57.
36 Russo, âClass Struggleâ, 35.
37 Peter Sloterdijk (translated by Sandra Berjan). 2020. Infinite Mobilization. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 60.
38 Mark Fisher. 2016. The Weird and the Eerie. London: Repeater Books, 11.
39 Li, Utopian Ruins, 156.
40 Ibid.
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