I’m unsure how long they’ve been floating around in Chinese*, but Political Logic, National Sovereignty, and Wang Huning’s Collected Works were all published this year and are currently available on Amazon [just Amazon for some reason].

I’m unsure if these are official, given that they’re simply listed as “independently published” rather than being from the Foreign Languages Press [also, they seem to be in a similar format to America Against America, which was published in 2022 but was in a bit of a shoddy condition, being in a weird font and not having page numbers]. But in any case they seem interesting enough [although I would expect the translation to not be as good as if it were done professionally, also hopefully they aren’t just fabrications]

[Also unfortunately Amazon is the only place I can find them currently. I’ll see if i can buy them and maybe upload them to the internet archive]

*I did do a search of Political Logic/ 政治逻辑 and did find something in Chinese describing Wang as just a professor, it’s possible these have been around for a very long while in China. But that’s going off of rough shod Google translate for now.

  • haui@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 days ago

    I see more content on china and specifically on the communist party. I’m so glad. When I met some people from china on the book fair in frankfurt i was massively impressed how nice and forthcoming they were. I hope to be able to learn deeper contemporary theory from them.

    I started to read governing china but didnt get very far yet.

    Are there any other suggestions what to read in terms of getting a fresher opinion on socialism from the huge brainpower over there?

    • Une Marat@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      Cheng Enfu is a CPC economist and director of the Chinese academy of marxism who translates a lot of his stuff into English [in fact i think he does so himself if i remember right]. I’ve only read “China’s Economic Dialectic: The original aspirations of reform” so far, but he also has a couple textbooks titled “Modern Political Economy; a new coursebook” and “the creation of value by living labor.” China’s Economic Dialectic is available from international publishers while the course books are available from Canut Press, so luckily you don’t have to use Amazon for him.

      Edit: Springer also publishes a series of textbooks called “China Insights.” I haven’t read them yet, but they’re written and translated by Chinese authors which is definitely nice compared to what you usually get. Springer gives institutional access, but all [or at least some of the books] are available on sci-hub.

  • Sanya@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 days ago

    I hope you or someone else will post PDFs online soon, I’d love to put my hands on it; searching online I only found America against America.

    On a sidenote, Wang Huning is such an interesting politburo member, as far as I’m aware he’s the only one who didn’t work as a regional manager of sorts, and he’s seen as the architect of modern China by some. I wonder what he brought up to the table for the party to do an exception only for him