For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Yueran Zhang will speak about the topic: Workers of the Socialist World: The Transnational Remaking of Chinese Workers’ Class Consciousness, circa 1980. This talk provides a transnational account of the crystallization of socialist workers’ class consciousness at a pivotal historical moment. Specifically, it reveals how, in China’s early […]

For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Yu Yao will speak about the topic: China’s Natural Rubber Plantation in the 1950s: A Global View. In the 1950s, China started its road towards becoming a major natural rubber producer. However, China’s natural rubber plantations in this decade fluctuated sharply with costs, mainly because the Chinese Communist […]