You remember Den Van Boo?

No!

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

They didn't have anything but a rank.

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's great to be with you. Yeah, nice to see you too. It's actually, it feels like it's been a little while since I've seen you, but I'm glad that we're here today. Also joined by our other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. I also feel like it's been a while since I've seen you, but I'm very happy to be here with you today.

Absolutely. Yeah, I'm doing great and really looking forward to this conversation. I absolutely love talking and learning about China.

Absolutely. This should be a fantastic conversation. We are being joined today by our guest, Jun Xu, who is an associate professor of economics at John Jay College at the City University of New York.

I'll just mention his most recent book, which sounds really interesting to me. I haven't read it yet.

It's from commune to capitalism, how China's peasants lost collective farming and gained urban poverty.

Hello, Professor. It's nice to have you on the show.

Thank you, Henry. Thank you, Brett and Atlan. It's a great honor for me to join the show.

Absolutely. So listeners, this is going to be an extension of our ongoing sanctions as war series.

This episode, we're planning on releasing it just in time for Chinese New Year. And as Brett alluded to, this episode is going to be focused on China. So the chapter of sanctions this war

that we are looking at today is titled the political economy of U.S. sanctions against China.

And it's co-authored by June and a co-author, Feng Fei Lin, who unfortunately was not able to make it today,

but that would have been great. She's a sociologist and anthropologist at Xinjiang University in

China. So that would have been fantastic to have her, but we're very happy to have June here.

So let's get this conversation underway.

We're going to be talking about sanctions and China.

I think that perhaps a good starting point might be discussing the pre-revolutionary

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