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Brang, Lucas . The Dilemmas of Self-Assertion: Chinese Political Constitutionalism in a Globalized World. Mod. China. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1552-6836

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Abstract

Political constitutionalism emerged on the Chinese academic scene in the mid-2000s as a countermovement to the rights-based, court-centered, and textual mainstream in Chinese constitutional scholarship. On the surface, it has launched a biting and sophisticated critique of academic and institutional Westernization and reasserted a sense of Chinese constitutional particularity. However, contrary to its intellectual self-representation as a genuinely Chinese phenomenon, the movement's academic formation, methodological agenda, and theoretical vocabulary are inseparable from global ideological trends and draw heavily on European and American precedents. Consequently, the movement is troubled by a set of performative contradictions. These include the contradiction between its transnational genealogy and nationalist agenda; its pluralist theoretical makeup and anti-pluralist political rhetoric; as well as its putatively value-neutral sociological methodology and the politically selective application of said methodology. These antinomies, I argue, speak to the recurring dilemmas of national self-assertion in a globalized world.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Brang, Lucas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-567623
DOI:	10.1177/0097700421994738
Journal or Publication Title:	Mod. China
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1552-6836
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LAW; JUDICIALIZATION; FORMALISM; PARTY Multiple languages Area Studies Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56762