Waning Marxism: a Hidden Lineage of Chinese Cultural Conservatism and the Reshaping of Depoliticized Politics

Chinese cultural conservatism used to participate in shaping the course of modernization to a large extent. In this paper, I aim to describe a hidden lineage of Chinese cultural conservatism of the twentieth century that is still alive and appears to be more and more influential in mainland China. R...

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Published inEast Asia (Piscataway, N.J.) Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 355 - 370
Main Author Zhou, Yichuan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2022
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
20th century
Analysis
Anxiety
Conservatism
Intellectuals
International relations
Legitimacy
Lineage
Marxism
Modernity
Modernization
Philosophy, Marxist
Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies
Politics
Radicalism
Social science research
Social Sciences
State-society relations
Traditions
China
Conservatism
Legitimacy
Hong Kong
Neo-Confucianism
Chinese modernity
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Summary:Chinese cultural conservatism used to participate in shaping the course of modernization to a large extent. In this paper, I aim to describe a hidden lineage of Chinese cultural conservatism of the twentieth century that is still alive and appears to be more and more influential in mainland China. Relying on several ideas developed by Neo-Confucians of the early twentieth century, Gan Yang’s paper in 2007 represented a contemporary revival of Chinese cultural conservatism. More importantly, in recent years, this kind of revival of conservative discourse went through another big change, which not only matters to the self-underpinning of the legitimate basis of the current regime, but also combined with the political conservations related to the Hong Kong protest of 2019–2020 explains why this country is so ideologically different from the West.
ISSN:1096-6838
1874-6284
DOI:10.1007/s12140-022-09390-5