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- Title
From the 'Chinese National Character' Debates of Yesterday to the Anti-China Foreign Policy of Today.
- Authors
LI, Promise
- Abstract
Retracing the basic contours of the debates about the 'Chinese national character', this essay considers the harkening back to the 'national character' discourse of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by many liberal Sinophone dissident scholars in the 1980s and Hong Kong cultural critics in the 2000s as a reaction against decades of class discourse in China. This revival of cultural essentialism has since provided a key ideological register for dissidents, especially those on the frontlines of shaping anti-China foreign policy in the West today, thus limiting the horizon for alternative imaginaries of democratic politics.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); POLITICAL science; DEMOCRACY; NINETEENTH century; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Made in China Journal, 2021, Vol 6, Issue 3, p47
- ISSN
2652-6352
- Publication type
Article