This is great: Adam Tooze and Wang Hui
'When we read the writings of Chinese thinkers from the early decades of the century, we find that they are already wrestling with the issues that Benjamin or Adorno would later address. Lu Xun, for example, wrote about defeat as the permanent condition of the honest observer – someone who sees what the wreckage of history leaves behind but still refuses the consolation of progress narratives'
#history #philosophy #economics #china
https://www.equator.org/articles/the-two-faced-present
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