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According to the Chinese zodiac, 2018 was the year of the 'earthly dog'. In the middle of the long, hot, and feverish dog days of the summer of 2018, some workers at Shenzhen Jasic Technology took their chances and attempted to form an independent union. While this action was met by the harshest repression, it also led to extraordinary demonstrations of solidarity from small groups of radical students from all over the country, which in turn were immediately and severely suppressed. China's year of the dog was also imbued with the spirit of another canine, Cerberus—the three-headed hound of Hades—with the ravenous advance of the surveillance state and the increasing securitisation of Chinese society, starting from the northwestern region of Xinjiang. This Yearbook traces these latest developments in Chinese society through a collection of 50 original essays on labour, civil society, and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 was the year of the 'fire rooster', an animal often associated with the mythical fenghuang, a magnificently beautiful bird whose appearance is believed to mark the beginning of a new era of peaceful flourishing. Considering the auspicious symbolism surrounding the fenghuang, it is fitting that on 18 October 2017, President Xi Jinping took to the stage of the Nineteenth Party Congress to proclaim the beginning of a 'new era' for Chinese socialism. However, in spite of such ecumenical proclamations, it became immediately evident that not all in China would be welcome to reap the rewards promised by the authorities. Migrant workers, for one, remain disposable. Lawyers, activists and even ordinary citizens who dare to express critical views also hardly find a place in Xi's brave new world. This Yearbook traces the stark new 'gilded age' inaugurated by the Chinese Communist Party. It does so through a collection of more than 40 original essays on labour, civil society and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.

Intro -- Introduction -- 1. Aesthetics -- 2. Blood Lineage -- 3. Class Feeling -- 4. Class Struggle -- 5. Collectivism -- 6. Contradiction -- 7. Culture -- 8. Cultural Revolution -- 9. Datong and Xiaokang -- 10. Dialectical Materialism -- 11. Dignity of Labour -- 12. Formalism -- 13. Friend and Enemy -- 14. Global Maoism -- 15. Immortality -- 16. Justice -- 17. Labour -- 18. Large and Communitarian -- 19. Line Struggle -- 20. Mass Line -- 21. Mass Supervision -- 22. Mobilisation -- 23. Museum -- 24. Nationality -- 25. New Democracy -- 26. Paper Tiger -- 27. Peasant -- 28. People's War -- 29. Permanent Revolution -- 30. Poetry -- 31. Practice -- 32. Primitive Accumulation -- 33. Rectification -- 34. Red and Expert -- 35. Removing Mountains and Draining Seas -- 36. Revolution -- 37. Self-reliance -- 38. Semifeudalism, Semicolonialism -- 39. Sending Films to the Countryside -- 40. Serve the People -- 41. Socialist Law -- 42. Speaking Bitterness -- 43. Sugarcoated Bullets -- 44. Superstition -- 45. Surpass -- 46. Third World -- 47. Thought Reform -- 48. Trade Union -- 49. United Front -- 50. Utopia -- 51. Women's Liberation -- 52. Work Team -- 53. Work Unit -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- References.

Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous perspectives to consider what lessons Chinese communism can offer today, and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that it once promised.