Panel discussion on Social Contagion

We are proud to present a panel discussion, recorded on November 27th, 2021, on Social Contagion and other material on microbiological class war in China. The book, authored by the anonymous binational collective Chuang, is an account and analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in China—a piercing portrait of the simultaneously draconian and ineffectual response of the Chinese state and the self-organizing survival strategies of ordinary Chinese workers. We invited leading researchers on these issues to comment on the book and launch the debate on Chuang's provocative theses.

• Aminda Smith is associate professor at Michigan State University, specializing in modern Chinese history with a particular interest in the social and cultural history of Chinese Communism.

• Kevin Lin writes for Made in China Journal and is a visiting research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Promise Li is an organizer and a founding member of Lausan Collective whose has writing has appeared in Lausan, The Nation, and Spectre Journal.

• Eli Friedman is an assistant professor at Cornell University, researching state responses to worker unrest in China and Chinese urbanization, and the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China.

Order Social Contagion from AK Press, www.akpress.org/social-contagion.html.