China: Interview with May Wong
January 14th, 2007
(May WONG, Coordinator of Globalization Monitor, Hong Kong)
1. China has gone through a great socio-economic transformation in recent years. There occurred an obvious differentiation in the class-structure and
composition of classes. How do you define this transformation and differentiation compared to the past?
The period beginning from 1992 and until now has been characterized by the complete abandoning of the command economy and the (...)

Together with the rise of large scale production, workers got together in big factories. The new conditions of production, caused the workers to develop a feeling and a thought of being a class, they gained the characteristics of being a class by struggling together. Starting from strike foundations, the appearance of trade-unions and other massive organisations of workers, the presence of a continuous movement of the class and the guidance of scientific socialism that leads the first big (...)