Tsui Sit
Biographic Data
| ID | 274756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tsui Sit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tsui |
| FAMILY NAME | Sit |
| SIGNATURE | SIT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4534-7409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural Resilience of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Global Health Regime
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the Chinese government and people to utilize traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in addressing the crisis. It is not only a question of the effectiveness of herbal treatment but also an alternative philosophy of life, countering capitalist logic based on the survival of the fittest and an orientation toward profit-making. This article argues for the cultural resilience of TCM during the pandemic, then revisits it…
Emerging Oceanic Struggles for No-Nukes in Japan
In this deeply stirring account, Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi share their field research, conducted over years of travel and relationship-building, into the Japanese antinuclear movement. As the people and environment of Fukushima continue to be impacted by the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, the No-Nukes movement has grown in response, encompassing aspects of society ranging from artists and monks to fisherfolk and intel…
Communal Governance and Production in Rural China Today
Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi elucidate the history of China's People's Communes as told through the lens of three present-day rural villages. In these villages, they observe the effects of the project's dismantling and diminishing collective ownership and land management, with the conclusion that a return to collectivism is vital for carrying forward the socialist project
Chinese Strategies of Delinking Amid the Implosion of Financial Imperialism
This article analyzes the Chinese strategies of delinking amid the implosion of financial imperialism. Drawing on Samir Amin's theory of delinking and financial implosion, the authors outline the problem of financialization in the Old Cold War, Post-Cold War, and New Cold War. The article highlights the Chinese efforts to pursue industrialization in the 1950s and 1960s, when the country was first delinked by the United States and then the Soviet …
Grassroots Initiatives for Ecological Transition in China
In light of ecological disasters in China and social alienation among the Chinese people, this article argues that ecology must take precedence over economy, agriculture over industry and finance, and life over money and profit. The article focuses on the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Loving Home Village campaigns and identifies several grassroots initiatives in search for pathways to social and ecological transition. It presents in d…
Surviving Through Community Building in Catastrophic Times
Over the last twenty years, China has gained recognition for its efforts to reduce pollution and remediate the effects of industrialization within its borders. To mitigate the adverse effects of this reality, communities are returning to grassroots projects that present an alternative to unchecked globalization
The Blue Maoist Jacket
Legacies of Definancialization and Defending Real Economy in China
Confronting the triple trap of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic downturn, and ecological crisis, the Chinese leadership has reiterated that "China puts the people's interests first—nothing is more precious than people's lives." This kind of people-centered governance philosophy is ostensibly meant to protect the lives and health of the people, while defending people's property under the basic system of collective ownership
Building a Global Feminist Alliance for Peace in East Asia
In an era of vacillations between threats of a nuclear war and promises of peace breakthroughs in East Asia, this article takes examples from public campaigns of women’s peace groups—such as Women’s Peace Walk, Women Cross DMZ (the Demilitarized Zone), Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, and PeaceWomen Across the Globe—and argues for feminist scholarship to take an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, to fuse peace studies with cult…
Toward Delinking
During the 1960s, China was effectively excluded from the two major camps: the Soviet camp and the U.S. camp. For about a decade, China was obliged to seek development within its own borders and thereby achieved some extent of delinking: a refusal to succumb to U.S.-eurocentric globalization and an embrace of a people's agenda of development. While foreign relations were later normalized and China once again brought in foreign capital, since bein…
Tracing a Trajectory of Hope in Rural Communities in China
Zhoujiazhuang and the Puhan Rural Community offer contrasting experiences of how communities in different parts of China have responded to, negotiated, and undergone extensive changes during the last forty years since the reform policy was implemented in the country in 1979
Negotiating Debt
Originally set up in 1998 in China, the Puhan Rural Community was the first peasant-initiated, cross-village organization established after the collapse of the top-down people's communes and the implementation of the household responsibility system. Puhan learned a lesson about the exploitation of usurious microfinance and decided that it was capable of establishing a system of mutual aid credit by itself, changing the cultural emphasis on money.…
In Transition to Rural Vitalization
This article examines how China deals with the global crises. China's policies to counter the crises rely on maintaining investment-led growth, which, however, has incurred an overexpansion of credits and serious debts similar to those of the West entering the era of financial capitalism. The current challenge is whether China can deploy the strategy of rural vitalization to turn to ecological civilization
China’s Strategic Responses to Crises and for Rural Vitalisation
The tyranny of global monopoly-finance capital can be seen in part as monetary geopolitics backed by military power. It directly appropriates, through investment schemes, production gains from the physical and resource economies of developing countries. At the same time, it engages in financial speculation by means of buying long and selling short in capital markets. The end result is the plundering of social wealth. China is not immune to this t…
Rural Communities and Economic Crises in Modern China
Throughout China's nearly seventy-year history of industrialization and financialization, whenever the cost of an economic crisis could be transferred to the rural sector, capital-intensive urban industries have had a "soft landing" and existing institutional arrangements have been maintained—a pattern that continues today. We argue that Chinese peasants and rural communities have rescued the country from no fewer than ten such economic crises
Renminbi
There is considerable interest in the history and characterization of China's economy. This overview of the evolution of the renminbi from the late Qing dynasty to the present, shows how China's political and economic changes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are reflected in the development of its highly contested modern currency system
The Tyranny of Monopoly-Finance Capital
Since the 1980s, economic growth in the core capitalist countries has been driven by an enormous expansion of financial capital, accompanied by steady deindustrialization. In recent years, the monopoly power of this financial capital has displayed increasingly tyrannical characteristics: it depends for its continued growth on ever-increasing indebtedness and dependence in developing nations, widening the divide between rich and poor and ultimatel…
One Belt, One Road
In late 2013, Chinese premier Xi Jinping announced a pair of new development and trade initiatives for China and the surrounding region: the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road," together known as One Belt, One Road (OBOR). Along with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the OBOR policies represent an ambitious spatial expansion of Chinese state capitalism, driven by an excess of industrial produ…
Grain Financialization and Food Security
The globalization led by financial capital has already resulted in 'grain financialization' (or grain dollarization), which is the most important factor giving rise to the grave situation in global food security, as well as turmoil in developing countries that rely heavily on grain imports.* This article analyzes food security issues in the twenty-first century in the context of international financial globalization. In particular, it pays attent…
Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China
The recurrent crises of financial capitalism that has erupted within core countries have resulted in a double cost-transfer to countries in the Global South in conditions where the South suffers from political upheaval, economic down turns and social unrest. Encountering the challenges of global financialization and de-industrialization, the Global South needs to strengthen national sovereignty over common resources and enhance its capability of …
The Rhetoric and Reality of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Since announcing its foreign policy "pivot to Asia" shortly after the election of Barack Obama, the United States has made extensive use of its institutional and discursive power to encourage denationalization among developing countries whose economies chiefly rely on manufacturing and trade—part of its global strategic goal of expanding the hegemony of finance capital at the lowest possible cost. The development of the Trans-Pacific Partnership …
Something more to Xiaoying's pain
This short article concentrates on various representations of Xiaoying, a seriously injured survivor of the Zhili Toy Factory fire of 1993 in Shenzhen, China. Visual materials including a music video by the Hong Kong band, Noise Cooperative, TV documentaries by Radio Television Hong Kong and Phoenix TV, and written literary reports, such as ‘Bloody Tracing: a Recent Report on the Victims of the Zhili Toy Factory Fire in Shenzhen on November 19, 1…
The Development Trap of Financial Capitalism
On the basis of an understanding that the crises of core nations are being transferred to developing countries and thus globalized, this article highlights two issues, the 'sovereignty externalities' borne by developing countries and the 'currency-strategy' of the superpower in financial capitalism. These are the causes of the predicament with which developing countries are faced today. Furthermore, to illustrate how manufacturing countries bear …
Double Task
This article begins from a presupposition that capitalist development induces war, whereas community building nurtures peace. This assumption is based on the ideas of two PeaceWomen: Joan Hinton and Mahasweta Devi. Developing a Marxist and feminist perspective, I argue that the core value of capitalist development is individualism and competition, whereas community building requires collectivity and cooperation. And I propose rural women’s collec…
Questioning the Self
After accession to the World Trade Organization in 1999, China has been further incorporated into the global track. The national policy of economic development requires a continuing exploitation of natural resources and intensive labor from the rural sector, and over the last few decades there has been a ceaseless wave of rural women going to the cities and working mainly as assembly-line workers, domestic helpers, and sex workers. Developing a s…
One Belt, One Road
In late 2013, Chinese premier Xi Jinping announced a pair of new development and trade initiatives for China and the surrounding region: the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road," together known as One Belt, One Road (OBOR). Along with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the OBOR policies represent an ambitious spatial expansion of Chinese state capitalism, driven by an excess of industrial produ…
The Development Trap of Financial Capitalism
On the basis of an understanding that the crises of core nations are being transferred to developing countries and thus globalized, this article highlights two issues, the 'sovereignty externalities' borne by developing countries and the 'currency-strategy' of the superpower in financial capitalism. These are the causes of the predicament with which developing countries are faced today. Furthermore, to illustrate how manufacturing countries bear …
Grassroots Initiatives for Ecological Transition in China
In light of ecological disasters in China and social alienation among the Chinese people, this article argues that ecology must take precedence over economy, agriculture over industry and finance, and life over money and profit. The article focuses on the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Loving Home Village campaigns and identifies several grassroots initiatives in search for pathways to social and ecological transition. It presents in d…
In Transition to Rural Vitalization
This article examines how China deals with the global crises. China's policies to counter the crises rely on maintaining investment-led growth, which, however, has incurred an overexpansion of credits and serious debts similar to those of the West entering the era of financial capitalism. The current challenge is whether China can deploy the strategy of rural vitalization to turn to ecological civilization
Grain Financialization and Food Security
The globalization led by financial capital has already resulted in 'grain financialization' (or grain dollarization), which is the most important factor giving rise to the grave situation in global food security, as well as turmoil in developing countries that rely heavily on grain imports.* This article analyzes food security issues in the twenty-first century in the context of international financial globalization. In particular, it pays attent…
The Rhetoric and Reality of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Since announcing its foreign policy "pivot to Asia" shortly after the election of Barack Obama, the United States has made extensive use of its institutional and discursive power to encourage denationalization among developing countries whose economies chiefly rely on manufacturing and trade—part of its global strategic goal of expanding the hegemony of finance capital at the lowest possible cost. The development of the Trans-Pacific Partnership …
Double Task
This article begins from a presupposition that capitalist development induces war, whereas community building nurtures peace. This assumption is based on the ideas of two PeaceWomen: Joan Hinton and Mahasweta Devi. Developing a Marxist and feminist perspective, I argue that the core value of capitalist development is individualism and competition, whereas community building requires collectivity and cooperation. And I propose rural women’s collec…
Specters of the subaltern
China has speeded up modernization since the reform and open-door policy was introduced in 1978. After accession to the World Trade Organization in 1999, China has been further incorporated into the global track. The national policy of economic development requires a continuing exploitation of natural resources and intensive labor from the rural sector, and over the last few decades, there has been a ceaseless wave of rural women going to the cit…
Questioning the Self
After accession to the World Trade Organization in 1999, China has been further incorporated into the global track. The national policy of economic development requires a continuing exploitation of natural resources and intensive labor from the rural sector, and over the last few decades there has been a ceaseless wave of rural women going to the cities and working mainly as assembly-line workers, domestic helpers, and sex workers. Developing a s…
Double Task
This article begins from a presupposition that capitalist development induces war, whereas community building nurtures peace. This assumption is based on the ideas of two PeaceWomen: Joan Hinton and Mahasweta Devi. Developing a Marxist and feminist perspective, I argue that the core value of capitalist development is individualism and competition, whereas community building requires collectivity and cooperation. And I propose rural women’s collec…
Something more to Xiaoying's pain
This short article concentrates on various representations of Xiaoying, a seriously injured survivor of the Zhili Toy Factory fire of 1993 in Shenzhen, China. Visual materials including a music video by the Hong Kong band, Noise Cooperative, TV documentaries by Radio Television Hong Kong and Phoenix TV, and written literary reports, such as ‘Bloody Tracing: a Recent Report on the Victims of the Zhili Toy Factory Fire in Shenzhen on November 19, 1…
The Development Trap of Financial Capitalism
On the basis of an understanding that the crises of core nations are being transferred to developing countries and thus globalized, this article highlights two issues, the 'sovereignty externalities' borne by developing countries and the 'currency-strategy' of the superpower in financial capitalism. These are the causes of the predicament with which developing countries are faced today. Furthermore, to illustrate how manufacturing countries bear …
The Rhetoric and Reality of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Since announcing its foreign policy "pivot to Asia" shortly after the election of Barack Obama, the United States has made extensive use of its institutional and discursive power to encourage denationalization among developing countries whose economies chiefly rely on manufacturing and trade—part of its global strategic goal of expanding the hegemony of finance capital at the lowest possible cost. The development of the Trans-Pacific Partnership …
The Tyranny of Monopoly-Finance Capital
Since the 1980s, economic growth in the core capitalist countries has been driven by an enormous expansion of financial capital, accompanied by steady deindustrialization. In recent years, the monopoly power of this financial capital has displayed increasingly tyrannical characteristics: it depends for its continued growth on ever-increasing indebtedness and dependence in developing nations, widening the divide between rich and poor and ultimatel…
One Belt, One Road
In late 2013, Chinese premier Xi Jinping announced a pair of new development and trade initiatives for China and the surrounding region: the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road," together known as One Belt, One Road (OBOR). Along with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the OBOR policies represent an ambitious spatial expansion of Chinese state capitalism, driven by an excess of industrial produ…
Grain Financialization and Food Security
The globalization led by financial capital has already resulted in 'grain financialization' (or grain dollarization), which is the most important factor giving rise to the grave situation in global food security, as well as turmoil in developing countries that rely heavily on grain imports.* This article analyzes food security issues in the twenty-first century in the context of international financial globalization. In particular, it pays attent…
Re-organizing Peasant Labour for Local Resilience in China
The recurrent crises of financial capitalism that has erupted within core countries have resulted in a double cost-transfer to countries in the Global South in conditions where the South suffers from political upheaval, economic down turns and social unrest. Encountering the challenges of global financialization and de-industrialization, the Global South needs to strengthen national sovereignty over common resources and enhance its capability of …
Rural Communities and Economic Crises in Modern China
Throughout China's nearly seventy-year history of industrialization and financialization, whenever the cost of an economic crisis could be transferred to the rural sector, capital-intensive urban industries have had a "soft landing" and existing institutional arrangements have been maintained—a pattern that continues today. We argue that Chinese peasants and rural communities have rescued the country from no fewer than ten such economic crises
Renminbi
There is considerable interest in the history and characterization of China's economy. This overview of the evolution of the renminbi from the late Qing dynasty to the present, shows how China's political and economic changes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are reflected in the development of its highly contested modern currency system
China’s Strategic Responses to Crises and for Rural Vitalisation
The tyranny of global monopoly-finance capital can be seen in part as monetary geopolitics backed by military power. It directly appropriates, through investment schemes, production gains from the physical and resource economies of developing countries. At the same time, it engages in financial speculation by means of buying long and selling short in capital markets. The end result is the plundering of social wealth. China is not immune to this t…
Building a Global Feminist Alliance for Peace in East Asia
In an era of vacillations between threats of a nuclear war and promises of peace breakthroughs in East Asia, this article takes examples from public campaigns of women’s peace groups—such as Women’s Peace Walk, Women Cross DMZ (the Demilitarized Zone), Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, and PeaceWomen Across the Globe—and argues for feminist scholarship to take an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, to fuse peace studies with cult…
Toward Delinking
During the 1960s, China was effectively excluded from the two major camps: the Soviet camp and the U.S. camp. For about a decade, China was obliged to seek development within its own borders and thereby achieved some extent of delinking: a refusal to succumb to U.S.-eurocentric globalization and an embrace of a people's agenda of development. While foreign relations were later normalized and China once again brought in foreign capital, since bein…
Tracing a Trajectory of Hope in Rural Communities in China
Zhoujiazhuang and the Puhan Rural Community offer contrasting experiences of how communities in different parts of China have responded to, negotiated, and undergone extensive changes during the last forty years since the reform policy was implemented in the country in 1979
Negotiating Debt
Originally set up in 1998 in China, the Puhan Rural Community was the first peasant-initiated, cross-village organization established after the collapse of the top-down people's communes and the implementation of the household responsibility system. Puhan learned a lesson about the exploitation of usurious microfinance and decided that it was capable of establishing a system of mutual aid credit by itself, changing the cultural emphasis on money.…
In Transition to Rural Vitalization
This article examines how China deals with the global crises. China's policies to counter the crises rely on maintaining investment-led growth, which, however, has incurred an overexpansion of credits and serious debts similar to those of the West entering the era of financial capitalism. The current challenge is whether China can deploy the strategy of rural vitalization to turn to ecological civilization
The Blue Maoist Jacket
Legacies of Definancialization and Defending Real Economy in China
Confronting the triple trap of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic downturn, and ecological crisis, the Chinese leadership has reiterated that "China puts the people's interests first—nothing is more precious than people's lives." This kind of people-centered governance philosophy is ostensibly meant to protect the lives and health of the people, while defending people's property under the basic system of collective ownership
Surviving Through Community Building in Catastrophic Times
Over the last twenty years, China has gained recognition for its efforts to reduce pollution and remediate the effects of industrialization within its borders. To mitigate the adverse effects of this reality, communities are returning to grassroots projects that present an alternative to unchecked globalization
Grassroots Initiatives for Ecological Transition in China
In light of ecological disasters in China and social alienation among the Chinese people, this article argues that ecology must take precedence over economy, agriculture over industry and finance, and life over money and profit. The article focuses on the New Rural Reconstruction Movement and the Loving Home Village campaigns and identifies several grassroots initiatives in search for pathways to social and ecological transition. It presents in d…
Emerging Oceanic Struggles for No-Nukes in Japan
In this deeply stirring account, Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi share their field research, conducted over years of travel and relationship-building, into the Japanese antinuclear movement. As the people and environment of Fukushima continue to be impacted by the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, the No-Nukes movement has grown in response, encompassing aspects of society ranging from artists and monks to fisherfolk and intel…
Communal Governance and Production in Rural China Today
Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi elucidate the history of China's People's Communes as told through the lens of three present-day rural villages. In these villages, they observe the effects of the project's dismantling and diminishing collective ownership and land management, with the conclusion that a return to collectivism is vital for carrying forward the socialist project
Chinese Strategies of Delinking Amid the Implosion of Financial Imperialism
This article analyzes the Chinese strategies of delinking amid the implosion of financial imperialism. Drawing on Samir Amin's theory of delinking and financial implosion, the authors outline the problem of financialization in the Old Cold War, Post-Cold War, and New Cold War. The article highlights the Chinese efforts to pursue industrialization in the 1950s and 1960s, when the country was first delinked by the United States and then the Soviet …
Economics (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · China (20 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Economy (9 works)