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Record Nr.

UNINA9910350249703321

Autore

Vukovich Daniel F

Titolo

Illiberal China [[electronic resource] ] : The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China / / by Daniel F. Vukovich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

981-13-0541-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 250 p.)

Collana

China in Transformation

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political theory

Comparative politics

Asia-Politics and government

Political Theory

Comparative Politics

Asian Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.  .

Sommario/riassunto

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.