We need to operate as if America did not exist. –Rem Koolhaas What happens when the countryside— the global periphery —becomes the center of human progress, and America, once the heartland of modernity, turns into an exceptional, possibly obsolete island? Maybe America pivots, leaving twentieth-century allies behind and reorienting toward the places that will play…
Read MoreWang critiqued liberalism as a tool of global capitalism, arguing that China’s post-1978 reforms had led to inequality, depoliticization, and elite dominance. He advocated for a return to socialist ideals, with greater political participation, state intervention, and resistance to Western ideological hegemony. In his 2008 tract, “Depoliticized Politics,” he argued that liberal intellectuals had aligned with market elites, promoting a vision of democracy that ultimately served capital rather than the people. In 2009’s “The End of the Revolution,” Wang argued that China’s problem wasn’t an oppressive government, but its integration into globalist capitalism…
Read MoreIt is difficult for Chinese to idealize the United States anymore, perhaps particularly for those Chinese who spend time there or are fluent in English. And yet, China is not anywhere close to “finished,” and so the map is being redrawn in the middle of a voyage. Today, China’s society is like Frankenstein’s monster, with different parts grafted into a single organism…
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