Chinese (Anti-)Constitutionalism
Sino-Marxism, Xi Jinping Thought, and Hong Kong
Renninger, Philipp
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2019
Verfassungsblog
2019-11-28
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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.
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Renninger, Philipp
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Constitutionalism
Hong Kong
legal theory
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10.17176/20191128-180809-0
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