nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191128-180809-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191128s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191128-180809-0 doi eng 342 23 Renninger, Philipp Author aut Chinese (Anti-)­Constitutionalism Sino-Marxism, Xi Jinping Thought, and Hong Kong Renninger, Philipp Verfassungsblog 2019-11-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Many (Verfassungs-)blog posts on China, be it on tweets, white papers, or the Social Credit System, criticize legal institutions and realities by highlighting their difference from “Western” or constitutionalist traditions. This makes it rather easy for the explicitly anti-Western and anti-constitutionalist official Chinese system of thought, Sino-Marxism, to reject any criticism – either as Eurocentric, (legal) Orientalist, and “culturally hegemonic” or as ignorant of “theoretical basis” of the Chinese system. Knowing Sino-Marxism, which provides powerful political but only limited analytical tools, is thus crucial for transnational and global constitutionalists in order to defend their values without being accused of a lack of understanding – also in the current case of Hong Kong. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutionalism Hong Kong legal theory Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/chinese-anti-constitutionalism/ raw object