Illiberal China The Ideological Challenge Of The Peoples Republic Of China Daniel F Vukovich by Daniel F. Vukovich 9789811305412, 9789811344466, 9811305412, 9811344469 instant download after payment.

Illiberal China begins after Tiananmen and in the decidedly post-1980s era of China's rise, a rise I take to be a real thing, definitive and even epochal, not something that is going to blow away as so much hype. We can love it or hate it or feel both things at once or with sentiments in-between. But the People's Republic of China has 'happened' and 'arrived' and isn't going to collapse or shut up or snap out of it. Frankly this stability's opposed to regime-collapse or some Russian-esque abdication of the party-elite is a good thing. I do not understand why so many people--primarily outside of China, it must be said--desire an end to the Party-state when this does not seem at all to be a major desire, let alone movement, within its own borders. Also good, in the analysis here, is the speaking back to the arrogante or presumptuousness of supposedly universal norms and political forms.

My desire here is to understand and think through China's 'illiberalism' as well as to offer a more cogent critique where needed, especially in terms of China's political economy and paradoxical commitment to liberal free-market economics, or what I will later call economism, that is the subjection of politics and society to the dictates of the market. I have never pretended to be an economist, unlike some of my academic Marxist comrades, but there is no doubt that 'the political' and politics (and ideology and so on) must be read economically as well, as a venerable and subtle base/super-structure dialectic without end.