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On Sinopessimism, or Junkies o...
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On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal
This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Zhexi 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, […]