TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Map showing Danyang in April-May 1949. In this small town on the Yangtze River, the PLA prepared for taking Shanghai while some five thousand CCP cadres studied the city that they would soon run.

I wish Elon Musk all the success that Henry Ford had with Fordlandia. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The hand of rectification digging out the roots of capitalism. By Han Xiaoluo.

Old news: Bleach prevents COVID-19. Old-old news: Tadpoles prevent pregnancy. In 1956, Ye Xichun claimed in Beijing Daily that the method was 90% effective. The Chinese medical authority had learned of the practice "from a friend" who had seen it used in the brothels of Shanghai.

Bay Area developers get tax breaks to build "affordable" housing but the units rent at or above market rates. "Public to private sector wealth transfer" is a very polite term for the scheme. www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/01/i...

"Rebellion Against Mao Is Justified" Taiwanese psyop leaflet adopting both slogans and visuals from the Cultural Revolution. Context and analysis available on Herbert A. Friedman's "psywarrior" website

My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon.
www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...

Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words.
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol

The Berliner Zeitung has been running a number of pieces along these lines attacking the idea that the GDR was a dictatorship and claiming that this is part of some kind of new Historikerstreit. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here...

SCMP: "Beijing is stepping up efforts to tackle delayed payments for migrant workers, aiming to maintain social stability in turbulent economic times."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

For my first post here: A photo by Jack Birns. Taxi dancers from Shanghai's dance halls and nightclubs protest outside of the Guomindang gongshang office in early 1949.