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From the P2P Foundation, Uncommons and 706 M-Lab

P2P: The Commons Manifesto is now available in the Chinese language!

一本社会转型指南:《P2P共有资源宣言》 | 中译新书发布！

706 M-Lab 翻译小组与 Uncommons 合作完成的中译本《P2P共有资源宣言》（Peer to Peer The Commons Manifesto）正式上线！

本书是 Michel Bauwens @mbauwens，Vasilis Kostakis 与 Alex Pazaitis @AlexPazaitis

三位作者于2019年发表的小册子，广泛考察了构成数字时代的 “共有资源”(Commons) 的种种 P2P 技术——区块链、互联网、数字制造技术……从中提炼出一种“对等者生产”模式，探讨运用这种技术改变组织结构和价值创造，我们将如何进入一个以共有资源为基础的社会形态当中。

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Contextual Quote

The Chinese Model of Industrial Commoning creates a global development model

"China today exports more than products. It exports the capacity to industrialise.

Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, countries are building power grids, transit systems, and manufacturing lines with Chinese equipment because it works and it is affordable. Panels, batteries, turbines, robotics, and vehicles arrive at a fraction of the price once charged by Western suppliers. These are not just goods; they are the means to produce modernity.

The logic is straightforward: if you can industrialise cheaply, you can also educate cheaply. Once a country gains access to low-cost capital goods, it gains the same leverage China used to upgrade its own population—turning factories into training grounds and logistics networks into learning systems. Cheap capital goods are the equivalent of cheap intelligence. They allow nations to lift the cognitive and technical floor of their citizens without waiting for a generational overhaul of schools, universities, or bureaucracies."

- Chor Pharn [1]

The New Rome from the East

"China’s project is not simply national; it is imperial in form and administrative in soul. Like the Rome that turned conquest into law, it has converted scale into a kind of procedural faith. Where others debate ideology, it iterates architecture: data centres, power corridors, high-speed lines—each new artery extending the reach of a single metabolic logic.

The Party is no longer a party; it is the civilisation’s operating system. Its bureaucracy has merged with its machinery. The sensors of the grid feed the planners; the planners refine the algorithms that route energy back to the grid. Every port, plant, and province participates in a feedback loop that aspires to total lucidity. It is the dream of empire re-realised as infrastructure.

This New Rome seeks order through coherence. It does not merely govern machines; it governs through them. In the dark factories of the Pearl River Delta and the neuromorphic foundries of Chongqing, you can feel the administrative imagination at work—procedural, serene, absolute. It has achieved what the classical empires could not: a world where obedience is automated.

Yet perfection carries its own fragility. The system anticipates every variable except the human one. It can model storms and pandemics, but not love or fatigue. Its beauty is enduring, cold, and slightly funereal. New Rome will last, but it may not be loved."

- Chor Pharn [2]

Key Resources

Key Articles

Essential:

• The Grey Canon vs the Red Canon in the Sino-Stack. Chor Pharn.

Key Books

* Book: The Question Concerning Technology in China. By Yuk Hui. [3]: "A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics." [4]

"introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani."