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About Du Xiaojun

Du Xiaojun works as a translator and is based in Shanghai. His research is in international relations, cross-cultural communication, and applied linguistics.
  • The blame game is a virus

    How China broke the chain of infection

    Vijay Prashad and Du Xiaojun and Weiyan Zhu

    As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread.

  • Growing Xenophobia Against China in the Midst of CoronaShock

    How China learned about SARS-CoV-2 in the weeks before the global pandemic

    Vijay Prashad and Weiyan Zhu and Du Xiaojun

    In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail.

  • A 10-year-old patient draws on the notice board at a Wuhan hospital every day

    Growing xenophobia against China in the midst of CoronaShock

    Vijay Prashad and Du Xiaojun and Weiyan Zhu

    Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Du Xiaojun

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Du Xiaojun

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Du Xiaojun

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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