The Uprising in China – Spectre Journal

A Chinese activist writes about the unprecedented wave of protest and unrest across China, analyzing the causes of the discontent.

The Uprising in China Resisting Lockdowns, Repression, and Precarity Yun Dong November 30, 2022 doi.org/10.63478/1MSBRNHL Young, angry protesters in Shanghai confronted the police that encircled them, calling for freedom and shouting, “Aren’t you supposed to serve the people?!” Hundreds had gathered in the evening of November 26 th on Urumqi Road in Shanghai, which has served as the symbolic site to hold vigils to pay tribute to the victims of a fire at a high-rise residential building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province. The fire led to the death of at least ten people and injured nin

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