Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China: A Conversation with Ting Guo
https://madeinchinajournal.com/2025/06/17/religion-secularism-and-love-as-a-political-discourse-in-modern-china-a-conversation-with-ting-guo/
Published: June 17, 2025 08:24
Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) examines how the language of love (愛 ai) has been appropriated and politicised by Chinese political leaders throughout the twentieth and twenty-first…
Imagining the ‘Utopia of Homeownership’: Tracing the Online Virality of a Chinese Rust Belt City
https://madeinchinajournal.com/2025/06/13/imagining-the-utopia-of-homeownership-tracing-the-online-virality-of-a-chinese-rust-belt-city/
Published: June 13, 2025 07:48
‘I have saved up 50,000 yuan, planning to buy a house in Hegang. I will budget 30,000–40,000 yuan for the house itself, and the remaining 10,000 for living supplies.’ This post went viral on the Chinese online forum Baidu Tieba in May 2019, attracting more…
A History of Uyghur Buddhism: A Conversation with Johan Elverskog
https://madeinchinajournal.com/2025/06/10/a-history-of-uyghur-buddhism-a-conversation-with-johan-elverskog/
Published: June 10, 2025 07:28
In the past decades, the Uyghurs in China have become known as an oppressed ethnic and religious minority in their homeland, today’s Xinjiang. Islam and Islamophobia are central to that story, but visitors to Xinjiang and students of Uyghur history know…
Radicalness in Suspension: From ‘Ge Yu Lu’ to Ge Yulu
https://madeinchinajournal.com/2025/05/26/radicalness-in-suspension-from-ge-yu-lu-to-ge-yulu/
Published: May 26, 2025 14:10
This essay presents a case study of the widely known—and at times controversial—artist Ge Yulu and his interventionist practice. Through an account of Ge’s life and career, including his early years as a grassroots migrant artist navigating precarity in…