Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007.
China managed to maintain a certain amount of economic activity during the lockdown, but at what cost and under what conditions? This article highlights the regime’s use of the media alongside the political and market logics specific to China.
About: Sophia Rosenfeld, Democracy and Truth: A Short History, University of Pennsylvania Press
About: Catherine König-Pralong, La colonie philosophique. Écrire l’histoire de la philosophie aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, EHESS
About: Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy, Oxford University Press
