Daniel F. Vukovich

Illiberal China (eBook, PDF)

The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C. How do mainland politics and discourses challenge 'our' own, chiefly liberal and anti-'statist' political frameworks? To what extent is China paradoxically intertwined with a liberal economism? How can one understand its general refusal of liberalism, as well as its frequent, direct responses to electoral democracy, universalism, Western media, and other normative forces? Vukovich argues that the Party-state poses a challenge to our understandings of politics, globalization, and even progress. To be illiberal is not necessarily to be reactionary and vulgar but, more interestingly, to be anti-liberal and to seek alternatives to a degraded liberalism. In this way Chinese politics illuminate the global conjuncture, and may have lessons in otherwise bleak times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811305412
• Artikelnr.: 53212847

Autorenporträt

Daniel F. Vukovich is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Hong Kong University. Author of the acclaimed China and Orientalism (2012), his research masterfully integrates a variety of disciplines and insights from Western and Chinese academia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. On Illiberalism & Seeing Like An Other State.- 2. The New Left & the Old Politics of Knowledge: Battling for Chinese Political Discourse.- 3. From Making Revolution to Making Charters: Liberalism and Economism in the Late Cold War.- 4. No Country, No System: Liberalism, Autonomy, and Depoliticization in Hong Kong.- 5. Wukan!: Democracy, Illiberalism, and their Vicissitudes.- 6. The Ills of Liberalism: Thinking Through the P.R.C & the Political.

Rezensionen

"The strengths of the book lie in its coverage of a wide range of discourses, interdisciplinary outlook, and the contextualization of Chinese illiberalism. Its critique of deep-seated liberal presumptions of mainstream China studies also deserves further debate." (Shih-Diing Liu, China Information, Vol. 34 (1), 2020)
"Vukovich's book is an intellectually-challenging and therefore interesting read. The book makes an important contribution that puts the Chinese state in a broader theoretical context of (neo-) liberalism and its apparent decline. Scholars interested in critical theory as well as those observing the Chinese political system and especially those willing to challenge the Western narrative of China are strongly recommended to study this work." (Felix Wiebrecht, Democratization, Vol. 2016 (2), 2019)