Illiberal China - Daniel F Vukovich Gebunden

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 unde rstandings 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.