Kevin Lin is a researcher focusing on labor and employment relations, collective actions, and civil society in China. He is based in Hong Kong. Rosa Liu is a writer and activist based in China. Eli Friedman is associate professor and chair of international and comparative labor at Cornell University’s ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China and coeditor of the English edition of China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance. He splits his time between the US and China. Ashley Smith is a socialist writer and activist in Burlington, Vermont. He has written in numerous publications including Truthout, The International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, Jacobin, New Politics, Against the Current, and many other online and print publications.

"Books of the Year 2025," —Michael Roberts Blog"This volume is a powerful reminder of the complexity of China and the need to stop indulging in hackneyed analyses of this vast country and its amazing people." —Counter Currents"Understanding China is essential to understanding 21st century capitalism – and how to fight it. As Friedman et al argue, ‘the left must not allow the borders of the nation state to confine our political imagination; our organizing must be as international as global capitalism itself.’ [China in Global Capitalism offers] crucial contributions towards building an internationalist and anti-imperialist left opposed to all forms of exploitation and oppression." —Charlie Hore, RS21

• IntroductionPart I: The Rise of Chinese CapitalismChapter 1: China is CapitalistChapter 2: The Emergence of a New Great PowerPart II: Class, Social, and National StrugglesChapter 3: Class Struggle in the Countryside, Cities, and FactoriesChapter 4: Feminist Resistance and the Crisis of Social ReproductionChapter 5: China’s National QuestionsPart III: Imperial Rivalry and Crises of Global CapitalismChapter 6: The US v. China:The 21st Century’s Central Inter-Imperial Rivalry Chapter 7: China and Global Capitalism’s Ecological and Climate CrisesChapter 8: Pandemics in an Epoch of Imperial RivalryPart IV: International Solidarity from BelowChapter 9: “China” in the US: The Roots and Nature of Diasporic StrugglesConclusion: Neither Washington, Nor Beijing: International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry

Kevin Lin is a researcher focusing on labor and employment relations, collective actions, and civil society in China. He is based in Hong Kong. Rosa Liu is a writer and activist based in China. Eli Friedman is associate professor and chair of international and comparative labor at Cornell University’s ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China and coeditor of the English edition of China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance. He splits his time between the US and China. Ashley Smith is a socialist writer and activist in Burlington, Vermont. He has written in numerous publications including Truthout, The International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, Jacobin, New Politics, Against the Current, and many other online and print publications.

"Books of the Year 2025," —Michael Roberts Blog"This volume is a powerful reminder of the complexity of China and the need to stop indulging in hackneyed analyses of this vast country and its amazing people." —Counter Currents"Understanding China is essential to understanding 21st century capitalism – and how to fight it. As Friedman et al argue, ‘the left must not allow the borders of the nation state to confine our political imagination; our organizing must be as international as global capitalism itself.’ [China in Global Capitalism offers] crucial contributions towards building an internationalist and anti-imperialist left opposed to all forms of exploitation and oppression." —Charlie Hore, RS21

• IntroductionPart I: The Rise of Chinese CapitalismChapter 1: China is CapitalistChapter 2: The Emergence of a New Great PowerPart II: Class, Social, and National StrugglesChapter 3: Class Struggle in the Countryside, Cities, and FactoriesChapter 4: Feminist Resistance and the Crisis of Social ReproductionChapter 5: China’s National QuestionsPart III: Imperial Rivalry and Crises of Global CapitalismChapter 6: The US v. China:The 21st Century’s Central Inter-Imperial Rivalry Chapter 7: China and Global Capitalism’s Ecological and Climate CrisesChapter 8: Pandemics in an Epoch of Imperial RivalryPart IV: International Solidarity from BelowChapter 9: “China” in the US: The Roots and Nature of Diasporic StrugglesConclusion: Neither Washington, Nor Beijing: International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry

Kevin Lin is a researcher focusing on labor and employment relations, collective actions, and civil society in China. He is based in Hong Kong. Rosa Liu is a writer and activist based in China. Eli Friedman is associate professor and chair of international and comparative labor at Cornell University’s ILR School. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China and coeditor of the English edition of China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance. He splits his time between the US and China. Ashley Smith is a socialist writer and activist in Burlington, Vermont. He has written in numerous publications including Truthout, The International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, Jacobin, New Politics, Against the Current, and many other online and print publications.

"Books of the Year 2025," —Michael Roberts Blog"This volume is a powerful reminder of the complexity of China and the need to stop indulging in hackneyed analyses of this vast country and its amazing people." —Counter Currents"Understanding China is essential to understanding 21st century capitalism – and how to fight it. As Friedman et al argue, ‘the left must not allow the borders of the nation state to confine our political imagination; our organizing must be as international as global capitalism itself.’ [China in Global Capitalism offers] crucial contributions towards building an internationalist and anti-imperialist left opposed to all forms of exploitation and oppression." —Charlie Hore, RS21

• IntroductionPart I: The Rise of Chinese CapitalismChapter 1: China is CapitalistChapter 2: The Emergence of a New Great PowerPart II: Class, Social, and National StrugglesChapter 3: Class Struggle in the Countryside, Cities, and FactoriesChapter 4: Feminist Resistance and the Crisis of Social ReproductionChapter 5: China’s National QuestionsPart III: Imperial Rivalry and Crises of Global CapitalismChapter 6: The US v. China:The 21st Century’s Central Inter-Imperial Rivalry Chapter 7: China and Global Capitalism’s Ecological and Climate CrisesChapter 8: Pandemics in an Epoch of Imperial RivalryPart IV: International Solidarity from BelowChapter 9: “China” in the US: The Roots and Nature of Diasporic StrugglesConclusion: Neither Washington, Nor Beijing: International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry