Women hold up half the sky: how China eradicated extreme poverty
Artist and researcher Tings Chak writes for Capire on grassroots organizing and policies to fight poverty in China.
Guangzhou 1927: The Paris Commune of the East
On the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune, its legacy is remembered in the Guangzhou Uprising, when workers and peasants established a popular republic in the southern Chinese capital in 1927.
The enduring legacy of China’s Red Detachment of Women
On the eve of the Communist Party of China’s centenary in July 2021, the story of the country’s first women’s military brigade in the 1930s continues to find life in popular culture and the imagination of the Chinese people
The Lekra spirit lives: Martin Aleida on Indonesia’s revolutionary cultural group
Designer Tings Chak spoke with Indonesian writer Martin Aleida about Lekra and the legacy of repression of left movements in Indonesia
Not only to stay alive, but to stay human: An interview with Pavel Égüez
Designer Tings Chak spoke at length with Ecuadorian artist Pavel Égüez about revolutionary art, the crisis of capitalism and his series ‘Cuarentena’ which seeks to address the human suffering provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic
Painting an epidemic: An interview with Li Zhong (李钟)
Tings Chak of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research speaks to Li Zhong a Chinese painter who produced a series of paintings on the country’s heroic fight against the COVID-19 pandemic