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On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility

Summary by Made in China Journal

This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Gexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imagining a future in which China becomes the object, rather than the subject, of global racialisation. While Zhang’s usage was primarily a thought experiment, […]

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On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility

This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Gexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imagining a future in which China becomes the object, rather than the subject, of global racialisation. While Zhang’s usage was primarily a thought experiment, […]

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