In January 2025, I was chatting online with a few friends about the ongoing controversy surrounding the construction of a factory for Chinese carmaker BYD in Brazil, which had just come under scrutiny after the country’s Public Labour Prosecution Office accused it of ‘slavery’, following an investigation into the working conditions of Chinese labourers at […] The post In Praise of Hardship, or the Labour-Schooling Poetics of Chinese Youth appeared first on Made in China Journal.
