\u95ef Chu\u01ceng: The image of a horse breaking through a gate. Meaning: To break free; To attack, charge; To break through, force one\u2019s way in or out; To act impetuously. \u95ef\u5173 (chu\u01cenggu\u0101n): to run a blockade. \u95ef\u5ea7 (chu\u01cengzu\u00f2): to attend a feast without being invited.<\/p>\n
Over the past three decades, China has transformed from an isolated state-planned economy into an integrated hub of capitalist production. Waves of new investment are reshaping and deepening China\u2019s contradictions, creating billionaires like Ma Yun while the millions below \u2014 those who farm, cook, clean, and assemble his electronic infrastructure \u2014 struggle to escape fates of endless grueling work. But as China\u2019s wealthy feast ever more lavishly, the poor have begun to batter down the gates to the banquet hall. \u95ef is the sudden movement when the gate is broken and the possibilities for a new world emerge beyond it.<\/p>\n
\u95ef \u00a0Chu\u01ceng\u00a0will publish a journal analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it. \u00a0Chu\u01ceng\u00a0is also a blog chronicling these developments in shorter and more immediate form, and will publish translations, reports, and comments on Chinese news of interest to those who want to break beyond the bounds of the slaughterhouse called capitalism.<\/p>\n