nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200729-120022-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200729s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200729-120022-0 doi eng 342 23 Brang, Lucas Author aut The Counter-Enlightenment Strikes Back Constitutional Anti-Globalism and the Lexicon of Particularity in China Brang, Lucas Verfassungsblog 2020-07-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier How does one make sense of the piece of legislation known as the “Constitution” in a political context where there are no effective mechanisms for its enforcement, and where constitutional text and political reality diverge dramatically? For the longest part of the post-1989 era, the majority of Chinese jurists approached this predicament with an avowedly reformist attitude. Using the familiar language of Enlightenment universalism, they called for the gradual overcoming, through an empowered judiciary, of the rift separating political reality from normative ideal: China, it was said, was “marching toward an age of rights”. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Anti-Globalism Constitutionalism law and language Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-counter-enlightenment-strikes-back/ raw object