{"product_id":"social-contagion-and-other-material-on-microbiological-class-war-in-china-9780882860077","title":"Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China","description":"Social Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught between a lethal virus and a repressive state. They argue that China's rapid but fragile economic growth has created the social and biological conditions for new and deadly viruses, of which COVID-19 was merely the latest iteration. Through on-the-ground interviews, reports, and analysis, Social Contagion gives us a piercing portrait of the simultaneously draconian and ineffectual response of the Chinese state, as well as the self-organizing survival strategies of ordinary Chinese workers. Chuang concludes that the pandemic has enabled a new mode of counterinsurgent governance, one rooted in decades of institutional experimentation and an emergent theory of statecraft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChuang:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 闯 Chuǎng is a collective of communists living inside and outside China. Together they publish a journal analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it, and a blog chronicling these developments in shorter and more immediate form.","brand":"Charles Kerr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727006109970,"sku":"9780882860077","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f9e85aa9-acb0-4994-b3f7-2c0a3065974b.jpg?v=1734890064","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/social-contagion-and-other-material-on-microbiological-class-war-in-china-9780882860077","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}