H Yan
Biographic Data
| ID | 9822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Yan |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Yan |
| SIGNATURE | YAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3673-1991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 626 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Covid-19 and the racialisation of Chinese wildlife consumption
Pandemics and food consumption have long been racialised against non-Western peoples. Yellow Peril tropes of Chinese as disease vectors and consumers of 'weird' wildlife, such as bats, were conjoined again with COVID-19. US politicians and media have especially deployed these themes to blame Chinese for the pandemic, alongside tropes of Chinese as cruel, deceitful incompetents, thus serving a wider mobilisation against China that fuels a new Cold…
China, colonialism, neocolonialism and globalised modes of accumulation
The idea that China is the supreme overseas capital accumulator is part of a discourse of China as colonialist or neocolonialist. The discourse exists not because Chinese behaviour aligns with scholarly understandings of colonialism or neocolonialism, but as a rhetorical device to discredit China as the US’s ‘strategic rival’. In this paper we show that China does not practice colonialism or neocolonialism and examine the question of how China’s …
Positioning Ourselves on China in Africa: An Interview with Hairong Yan
Hairong Yan is an associate professor of the Department of Applied Social Science at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She specializes in politics of development, China–Africa links, rural-urba
Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China
Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic problematic. The state has practiced a strategic essentialism with regard to 'peasantry.' It has actively taken 'peasantry' as a temporary unifying master-category while at the same time working with the differences within the category for the long-term goal of transformation. The post-Mao contradiction, emphasizing the protection of the 'peasantry' while enc…
Mode switching: The state, market, and anti-Covid-19 shadow of socialism in China
Chinese and ‘self-segregation’ in Africa
Chinese are often said to ‘self-segregate’ in Africa. Chinese ethnocentricity is typically offered as an explanation for the putative non-interaction. Meanwhile Chinese are not compared to other non-indigenous people in Africa, implying unique Chinese self-isolation. Due to China’s semi-peripheral dynamics however, the contemporary Chinese presence in Africa cannot be generalized into a single category. Based on surveys, interviews, and documents…
Agrarian Marxism
The purpose of this special issue is to advance heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx's 200th birth anniversary. Scholarship on the origins of agrarian capitalism and the contrasts between agrarian and industrial capitalism have been a vital part of debates over and within Marxism for more than a century and have been central to the social scientific and historical understandings of the modern world system. At the …
Land reform in Zimbabwe, class dynamics and delayed Bandung: An interview with Sam Moyo
Interviewers’ note: Land reform in Zimbabwe has caught the world's attention. It's condemned by the mainstream in the West. It has also been highly controversial in South Africa, as post-apartheid South Africa has been unable to address the historical legacy of severe land inequality. What we find interesting and intriguing is that the land reform in Zimbabwe occurred at a time when neo-liberalism was raging in the world. What has been the histor…
China's soybean crisis: The Logic of Modernization and Its Discontents
Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop, this contribution examines China's dramatic turn from having been a soybean net exporter, up until the mid-1990s, to being the biggest importer of genetically modified (GM) soybeans, since 2000. With China's growing soybean imports, domestic soybean production has experienced a drastic fall, creating an outcry about a ‘soybean crisis’ in China. This paper examines …
The discourse of racialization of labour and Chinese enterprises in Africa
A 'race' and labour conjunction has been theorized based on Global North investment in the Global South. Chinese enterprising in Africa allows us to analyse it in a South-South setting. Contrary to dominant discourses, Chinese employers are not the sole racializers of the African/Chinese interface. Chinese and Africans, employers and employees, as well as Western actors, co-constitute racialization, with varied consequences for each. Rhetorical r…
Agrarian Capitalization without Capitalism? Capitalist Dynamics from Above and Below inChina
Cooperatives, family farms and dragon-head enterprises are emerging as new subjects of agriculture inChina and are being promoted by theChinese government as engines of agricultural development. The current dynamics of increasing capitalization of agriculture inChina has been characterized by scholarPhilipHuang as 'Capitalization without Proletarianization'. Through case studies, we examine the dynamics of accumulation inChinese agriculture, as w…
Bashing ‘the Chinese’: Contextualizing Zambia's Collum Coal Mine shooting
The 2010 shooting of 13 miners at Zambia's small, privately-owned ‘Chinese’ Collum Coal Mine (CCM) has been represented by Western and Zambian politicians and media as exemplifying the ‘neo-colonial’ and ‘amoral’ practices of ‘China’ and ‘the Chinese’ in Africa. CCM has been used to provide a sharp contrast to the supposed ways of the Western firms that own most of Zambia's mines. Embedded in racial hierarchy and notions of strategic competition …
The Beginning of a World Empire”? Contesting the Discourse of Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia
A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been central to global discussions of China-in-Africa since the mid-2000s. Based in the West’s putative strategic rivalry with China, the discourse also invokes racial stereotypes about Chinese cruelty and disregard for human life. Focusing on Human Rights Watch’s 2011 attempt to prove China’s firms to be Zambian copper mining’s “worst employers,” we show…
Debating the rural cooperative movement in China, the past and the present
Rural cooperatives appear to be flourishing in China. Yet this blossom has been controversial. Some contest whether specialized farmer cooperatives should be promoted. They are opposed to the implications and consequences that derive from the growth of such cooperatives. Many criticize that most of the cooperatives thus far developed are 'fake' cooperatives. Some propose comprehensive peasant associations in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a mod…
The “Right Dissident”: Liu Xiaobo and the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
Since garnering the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been lionized, particularly by Western politicians and media, who now promote him as the leader of the “democratic forces” in China. Meanwhile, Liu's politics and those of the award itself are studiously ignored. Liu, however, was chosen for the prize, over many other imprisoned dissidents (including Chinese) nominated for it, precisely because of his politics…
Chinese Farms in Zambia: From Socialist to “Agro-Imperialist” Engagement
Participation by Chinese in Zambia’s agriculture has involved three modes of engagement. Two of these, agro-socialist cooperation until the late 1980s and agro-capitalist “win-win,” since the 1990s, can be examined. The third one, an “agro-imperialist” mode, is not an experience, but a speculation, one possible future based on the Chinese state’s potential to allow firms from China to join in the large-scale, export-oriented “land grabs” by big t…
New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the “transformation of migrant women”; the women’s “transform…
Guest Editors's Introduction: What's Left of Asia
Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Research Article| May 01 2007 Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Yan Hairong Yan Hairong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (2): 429–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-036 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
Friends and Interests: China's Distinctive Links with Africa
China's expanded links to Africa have created a discourse of how to characterize those ties. Western political forces and media have criticized every aspect of China's activities in Africa, while Chinese, with significant support from Africans, have mounted a spirited defense. This article examines several factors that make China's links with Africa distinctive, including China's aid and migration policies, the distinctive "Chinese model" of fore…
Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow through Labor Recruitment Networks
Specialization of the rural: Reinterpreting the labor mobility of rural young women in post-Mao China
In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration to the cities before and after the post-Mao reform. I argue that rural young women's pursuit of a modern identity during the more recent migration has to be understood in the context of a changed rural-urban relationship resulting from China's postsocialist development in an era of flexible accumulation. I analyze how a contradiction between freedom and violence dialectically constitutes t…
On Three Major Dichotomies
Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow through Labor Recruitment Networks
Agrarian Marxism
The purpose of this special issue is to advance heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx's 200th birth anniversary. Scholarship on the origins of agrarian capitalism and the contrasts between agrarian and industrial capitalism have been a vital part of debates over and within Marxism for more than a century and have been central to the social scientific and historical understandings of the modern world system. At the …
Friends and Interests: China's Distinctive Links with Africa
China's expanded links to Africa have created a discourse of how to characterize those ties. Western political forces and media have criticized every aspect of China's activities in Africa, while Chinese, with significant support from Africans, have mounted a spirited defense. This article examines several factors that make China's links with Africa distinctive, including China's aid and migration policies, the distinctive "Chinese model" of fore…
Specialization of the rural: Reinterpreting the labor mobility of rural young women in post-Mao China
In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration to the cities before and after the post-Mao reform. I argue that rural young women's pursuit of a modern identity during the more recent migration has to be understood in the context of a changed rural-urban relationship resulting from China's postsocialist development in an era of flexible accumulation. I analyze how a contradiction between freedom and violence dialectically constitutes t…
Agrarian Capitalization without Capitalism? Capitalist Dynamics from Above and Below inChina
Cooperatives, family farms and dragon-head enterprises are emerging as new subjects of agriculture inChina and are being promoted by theChinese government as engines of agricultural development. The current dynamics of increasing capitalization of agriculture inChina has been characterized by scholarPhilipHuang as 'Capitalization without Proletarianization'. Through case studies, we examine the dynamics of accumulation inChinese agriculture, as w…
Debating the rural cooperative movement in China, the past and the present
Rural cooperatives appear to be flourishing in China. Yet this blossom has been controversial. Some contest whether specialized farmer cooperatives should be promoted. They are opposed to the implications and consequences that derive from the growth of such cooperatives. Many criticize that most of the cooperatives thus far developed are 'fake' cooperatives. Some propose comprehensive peasant associations in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a mod…
The Beginning of a World Empire”? Contesting the Discourse of Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia
A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been central to global discussions of China-in-Africa since the mid-2000s. Based in the West’s putative strategic rivalry with China, the discourse also invokes racial stereotypes about Chinese cruelty and disregard for human life. Focusing on Human Rights Watch’s 2011 attempt to prove China’s firms to be Zambian copper mining’s “worst employers,” we show…
The discourse of racialization of labour and Chinese enterprises in Africa
A 'race' and labour conjunction has been theorized based on Global North investment in the Global South. Chinese enterprising in Africa allows us to analyse it in a South-South setting. Contrary to dominant discourses, Chinese employers are not the sole racializers of the African/Chinese interface. Chinese and Africans, employers and employees, as well as Western actors, co-constitute racialization, with varied consequences for each. Rhetorical r…
Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China
Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic problematic. The state has practiced a strategic essentialism with regard to 'peasantry.' It has actively taken 'peasantry' as a temporary unifying master-category while at the same time working with the differences within the category for the long-term goal of transformation. The post-Mao contradiction, emphasizing the protection of the 'peasantry' while enc…
China's soybean crisis: The Logic of Modernization and Its Discontents
Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop, this contribution examines China's dramatic turn from having been a soybean net exporter, up until the mid-1990s, to being the biggest importer of genetically modified (GM) soybeans, since 2000. With China's growing soybean imports, domestic soybean production has experienced a drastic fall, creating an outcry about a ‘soybean crisis’ in China. This paper examines …
Chinese Farms in Zambia: From Socialist to “Agro-Imperialist” Engagement
Participation by Chinese in Zambia’s agriculture has involved three modes of engagement. Two of these, agro-socialist cooperation until the late 1980s and agro-capitalist “win-win,” since the 1990s, can be examined. The third one, an “agro-imperialist” mode, is not an experience, but a speculation, one possible future based on the Chinese state’s potential to allow firms from China to join in the large-scale, export-oriented “land grabs” by big t…
Chinese and ‘self-segregation’ in Africa
Chinese are often said to ‘self-segregate’ in Africa. Chinese ethnocentricity is typically offered as an explanation for the putative non-interaction. Meanwhile Chinese are not compared to other non-indigenous people in Africa, implying unique Chinese self-isolation. Due to China’s semi-peripheral dynamics however, the contemporary Chinese presence in Africa cannot be generalized into a single category. Based on surveys, interviews, and documents…
New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the “transformation of migrant women”; the women’s “transform…
Bashing ‘the Chinese’: Contextualizing Zambia's Collum Coal Mine shooting
The 2010 shooting of 13 miners at Zambia's small, privately-owned ‘Chinese’ Collum Coal Mine (CCM) has been represented by Western and Zambian politicians and media as exemplifying the ‘neo-colonial’ and ‘amoral’ practices of ‘China’ and ‘the Chinese’ in Africa. CCM has been used to provide a sharp contrast to the supposed ways of the Western firms that own most of Zambia's mines. Embedded in racial hierarchy and notions of strategic competition …
Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Research Article| May 01 2007 Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Yan Hairong Yan Hairong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (2): 429–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-036 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
Covid-19 and the racialisation of Chinese wildlife consumption
Pandemics and food consumption have long been racialised against non-Western peoples. Yellow Peril tropes of Chinese as disease vectors and consumers of 'weird' wildlife, such as bats, were conjoined again with COVID-19. US politicians and media have especially deployed these themes to blame Chinese for the pandemic, alongside tropes of Chinese as cruel, deceitful incompetents, thus serving a wider mobilisation against China that fuels a new Cold…
Land reform in Zimbabwe, class dynamics and delayed Bandung: An interview with Sam Moyo
Interviewers’ note: Land reform in Zimbabwe has caught the world's attention. It's condemned by the mainstream in the West. It has also been highly controversial in South Africa, as post-apartheid South Africa has been unable to address the historical legacy of severe land inequality. What we find interesting and intriguing is that the land reform in Zimbabwe occurred at a time when neo-liberalism was raging in the world. What has been the histor…
Guest Editors's Introduction: What's Left of Asia
On Three Major Dichotomies
Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow through Labor Recruitment Networks
Specialization of the rural: Reinterpreting the labor mobility of rural young women in post-Mao China
In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration to the cities before and after the post-Mao reform. I argue that rural young women's pursuit of a modern identity during the more recent migration has to be understood in the context of a changed rural-urban relationship resulting from China's postsocialist development in an era of flexible accumulation. I analyze how a contradiction between freedom and violence dialectically constitutes t…
Guest Editors's Introduction: What's Left of Asia
Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Research Article| May 01 2007 Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Yan Hairong Yan Hairong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (2): 429–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-036 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
Friends and Interests: China's Distinctive Links with Africa
China's expanded links to Africa have created a discourse of how to characterize those ties. Western political forces and media have criticized every aspect of China's activities in Africa, while Chinese, with significant support from Africans, have mounted a spirited defense. This article examines several factors that make China's links with Africa distinctive, including China's aid and migration policies, the distinctive "Chinese model" of fore…
New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the “transformation of migrant women”; the women’s “transform…
Chinese Farms in Zambia: From Socialist to “Agro-Imperialist” Engagement
Participation by Chinese in Zambia’s agriculture has involved three modes of engagement. Two of these, agro-socialist cooperation until the late 1980s and agro-capitalist “win-win,” since the 1990s, can be examined. The third one, an “agro-imperialist” mode, is not an experience, but a speculation, one possible future based on the Chinese state’s potential to allow firms from China to join in the large-scale, export-oriented “land grabs” by big t…
The “Right Dissident”: Liu Xiaobo and the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
Since garnering the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been lionized, particularly by Western politicians and media, who now promote him as the leader of the “democratic forces” in China. Meanwhile, Liu's politics and those of the award itself are studiously ignored. Liu, however, was chosen for the prize, over many other imprisoned dissidents (including Chinese) nominated for it, precisely because of his politics…
The Beginning of a World Empire”? Contesting the Discourse of Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia
A discourse fostered by Western politicians and media of Chinese copper mining in Zambia has been central to global discussions of China-in-Africa since the mid-2000s. Based in the West’s putative strategic rivalry with China, the discourse also invokes racial stereotypes about Chinese cruelty and disregard for human life. Focusing on Human Rights Watch’s 2011 attempt to prove China’s firms to be Zambian copper mining’s “worst employers,” we show…
Debating the rural cooperative movement in China, the past and the present
Rural cooperatives appear to be flourishing in China. Yet this blossom has been controversial. Some contest whether specialized farmer cooperatives should be promoted. They are opposed to the implications and consequences that derive from the growth of such cooperatives. Many criticize that most of the cooperatives thus far developed are 'fake' cooperatives. Some propose comprehensive peasant associations in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a mod…
Bashing ‘the Chinese’: Contextualizing Zambia's Collum Coal Mine shooting
The 2010 shooting of 13 miners at Zambia's small, privately-owned ‘Chinese’ Collum Coal Mine (CCM) has been represented by Western and Zambian politicians and media as exemplifying the ‘neo-colonial’ and ‘amoral’ practices of ‘China’ and ‘the Chinese’ in Africa. CCM has been used to provide a sharp contrast to the supposed ways of the Western firms that own most of Zambia's mines. Embedded in racial hierarchy and notions of strategic competition …
Agrarian Capitalization without Capitalism? Capitalist Dynamics from Above and Below inChina
Cooperatives, family farms and dragon-head enterprises are emerging as new subjects of agriculture inChina and are being promoted by theChinese government as engines of agricultural development. The current dynamics of increasing capitalization of agriculture inChina has been characterized by scholarPhilipHuang as 'Capitalization without Proletarianization'. Through case studies, we examine the dynamics of accumulation inChinese agriculture, as w…
Land reform in Zimbabwe, class dynamics and delayed Bandung: An interview with Sam Moyo
Interviewers’ note: Land reform in Zimbabwe has caught the world's attention. It's condemned by the mainstream in the West. It has also been highly controversial in South Africa, as post-apartheid South Africa has been unable to address the historical legacy of severe land inequality. What we find interesting and intriguing is that the land reform in Zimbabwe occurred at a time when neo-liberalism was raging in the world. What has been the histor…
China's soybean crisis: The Logic of Modernization and Its Discontents
Lester Brown sounded an alarm in 1995: who will feed China? Against this backdrop, this contribution examines China's dramatic turn from having been a soybean net exporter, up until the mid-1990s, to being the biggest importer of genetically modified (GM) soybeans, since 2000. With China's growing soybean imports, domestic soybean production has experienced a drastic fall, creating an outcry about a ‘soybean crisis’ in China. This paper examines …
The discourse of racialization of labour and Chinese enterprises in Africa
A 'race' and labour conjunction has been theorized based on Global North investment in the Global South. Chinese enterprising in Africa allows us to analyse it in a South-South setting. Contrary to dominant discourses, Chinese employers are not the sole racializers of the African/Chinese interface. Chinese and Africans, employers and employees, as well as Western actors, co-constitute racialization, with varied consequences for each. Rhetorical r…
Agrarian Marxism
The purpose of this special issue is to advance heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx's 200th birth anniversary. Scholarship on the origins of agrarian capitalism and the contrasts between agrarian and industrial capitalism have been a vital part of debates over and within Marxism for more than a century and have been central to the social scientific and historical understandings of the modern world system. At the …
Chinese and ‘self-segregation’ in Africa
Chinese are often said to ‘self-segregate’ in Africa. Chinese ethnocentricity is typically offered as an explanation for the putative non-interaction. Meanwhile Chinese are not compared to other non-indigenous people in Africa, implying unique Chinese self-isolation. Due to China’s semi-peripheral dynamics however, the contemporary Chinese presence in Africa cannot be generalized into a single category. Based on surveys, interviews, and documents…
Mode switching: The state, market, and anti-Covid-19 shadow of socialism in China
Positioning Ourselves on China in Africa: An Interview with Hairong Yan
Hairong Yan is an associate professor of the Department of Applied Social Science at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She specializes in politics of development, China–Africa links, rural-urba
Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China
Rural development in the Chinese state's strategy has been a changing political-economic problematic. The state has practiced a strategic essentialism with regard to 'peasantry.' It has actively taken 'peasantry' as a temporary unifying master-category while at the same time working with the differences within the category for the long-term goal of transformation. The post-Mao contradiction, emphasizing the protection of the 'peasantry' while enc…
China, colonialism, neocolonialism and globalised modes of accumulation
The idea that China is the supreme overseas capital accumulator is part of a discourse of China as colonialist or neocolonialist. The discourse exists not because Chinese behaviour aligns with scholarly understandings of colonialism or neocolonialism, but as a rhetorical device to discredit China as the US’s ‘strategic rival’. In this paper we show that China does not practice colonialism or neocolonialism and examine the question of how China’s …
Covid-19 and the racialisation of Chinese wildlife consumption
Pandemics and food consumption have long been racialised against non-Western peoples. Yellow Peril tropes of Chinese as disease vectors and consumers of 'weird' wildlife, such as bats, were conjoined again with COVID-19. US politicians and media have especially deployed these themes to blame Chinese for the pandemic, alongside tropes of Chinese as cruel, deceitful incompetents, thus serving a wider mobilisation against China that fuels a new Cold…
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