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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.
This book offers a sharp, critical analysis of the rise and fall of
the 2019 anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong, including
prior events like Occupy Central and the Mongkok Fishball
Revolution, as well as their aftermaths in light of the
re-assertion of mainland sovereignty over the SAR. Reading the
conflict against the grain of those who would romanticize it or
simply condemn it in nationalistic fashion, Vukovich goes beyond
mediatized discourse to disentangle its roots in the Basic Law
system as well as in the colonial and insufficiently post-colonial
contexts and dynamics of Hong Kong. He examines the question of
localist identity and its discontents, the problems of nativism,
violence, and liberalism, the impossibility of autonomy, and what
forms a genuine de-colonization can and might yet take in the city.
A concluding chapter examines Hong Kong's need for state capacity
and proper, livelihood development, in the light of the Omicron
wave of the Covid pandemic, as the SAR goes forward into a second
handover era.
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.
Against the dire consequences of China's market development, a new
intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the
mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social
justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the
socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the
neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and
consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of
seeking an alternative to global capitalism. This volume takes a
comprehensive look at China's New Left in intellectual, cultural,
and literary manifestations. The writers place the New Left within
a global anti-hegemonic movement and the legacy of the Cold War.
They discover grassroots literature that portrays the plight and
resilience of the downtrodden and disadvantaged. With historical
visions the writers also shed light on the present by drawing on
the socialist past.
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