The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi
| Autor: | Christian Sorace |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | The China Quarterly. 248:29-51 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2648 0305-7410 |
| Popis: | In its one hundred years of existence, the Communist Party of China has experimented with how to connect its narratives of legitimacy to people's affects. In this essay, I trace the conceptualization of gratitude, from its repudiation in the Mao era as a vestige of feudalism and imperialism to its return in the reform era as a re-verticalization of Party sovereignty. The paper addresses four examples of gratitude work: Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang's short-lived critique of gratitude in the name of a different conception of popular sovereignty;the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake as a day of gratitude;the detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang who are taught to be grateful to the Communist Party in a campaign of religious de-radicalization;and the refusal of gratitude in quarantined Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic. In these cases, the Communist Party's sovereignty stands at the threshold between bio-and necro-politics, promising life and salvation in the midst of death and destruction. Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. |
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