Asphalt encounters: Chinese road building in Ethiopia by Driessen, M

“…</p> <p>Chinese workers' struggles with development in Africa, I argue, should be understood in relation to their background as upwardly mobile rural migrants at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy, successors of engineers dispatched under Mao Zedong who had enjoyed a respectable reputation at home – a reputation current workers felt they were about to lose – and as citizens aware of their country’s status in the world as superior to Africa and inferior to the West. …”

[着魔 : 论高行健的 "没有主义" 和 "毛体"] = Obsession : on Gao Xingjian’s “without Isms” and “Maoist style” by 許维贤 Hee, Wai Siam

“…As Gao is unable to surpass the object that his love and hatred try to escape from, his spiritual obsession is just caught up in the displaced and misplaced play among the three major signifiers: "China," "Mao Zedong," and "woman."…”
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Chinese propriety medicines: an "alternative modernity?" The case of the anti-malarial substance artemisinin in East Africa by Hsu, E

“…These Western-Chinese combinations, produced in strife toward fulfilling Mao Zedong's Communist-revolutionary vision, have a potential to represent a critical alterity to Western health policies, challenging rhetoric against such combinations. …”

People's Wall : reconstructing a new city wall for the modern city of Beijing by Peng, Kaining

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从「译文」到「世界文学」：以1950年代中国大陆的政治语境为例 = From Yi Wen to Shijie Wenxue : the politics in translation in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s... by 崔峰 Cui Feng, 郭思妤 Arista Kuo Szu-Yu

“…During that time, China was dominated by Maoism and the unified communist ideology, and Mao Zedong's mandate that ＂literature should reflect politics＂ exerted ideological influences on the literary translation. …”
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