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Article: Illiberal China and Global Convergence: Thinking through Wukan and Hong Kong
Title | Illiberal China and Global Convergence: Thinking through Wukan and Hong Kong |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China convergence democracy Hong Kong politics protest |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | Third World Quarterly, 2015, v. 36 n. 11, p. 2130-2147 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article examines the applicability of convergence thinking via two protests in southern China: the Wukan ‘uprising’ and the ‘Umbrella Revolution’. These failed to usher in ‘democracy’ in an unnamed, ‘Western’ procedural sense. Yet the global media events expose the limits of convergence thinking, both official/PRC and Western/liberal. In so far as convergence is also about hegemony and rivalry, the events also show the fading of the latter, liberal one and the rise of the Chinese state as something which must be reckoned with analytically. It is not that the Chinese version is truer but that its relative legitimacy and actuality must be used to further citizens’ ends. The challenge is to re-politicise the state and bureaucracy, and in this the villagers have a lesson for Hong Kong. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215653 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.810 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Vukovich, DF | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T13:34:20Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T13:34:20Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Third World Quarterly, 2015, v. 36 n. 11, p. 2130-2147 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0143-6597 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215653 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the applicability of convergence thinking via two protests in southern China: the Wukan ‘uprising’ and the ‘Umbrella Revolution’. These failed to usher in ‘democracy’ in an unnamed, ‘Western’ procedural sense. Yet the global media events expose the limits of convergence thinking, both official/PRC and Western/liberal. In so far as convergence is also about hegemony and rivalry, the events also show the fading of the latter, liberal one and the rise of the Chinese state as something which must be reckoned with analytically. It is not that the Chinese version is truer but that its relative legitimacy and actuality must be used to further citizens’ ends. The challenge is to re-politicise the state and bureaucracy, and in this the villagers have a lesson for Hong Kong. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Third World Quarterly | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | convergence | - |
dc.subject | democracy | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.subject | politics | - |
dc.subject | protest | - |
dc.title | Illiberal China and Global Convergence: Thinking through Wukan and Hong Kong | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Vukovich, DF: vukovich@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Vukovich, DF=rp01178 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/01436597.2015.1065709 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84949546420 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 248042 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1360-2241 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000366384200009 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0143-6597 | - |