TY - JOUR
T1 - Always Already and Never Yet
T2 - Does China even Have a Present?
AU - Lanza, Fabio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2023/6/22
Y1 - 2023/6/22
N2 - This essay traces how China's changing presents have been represented in Anglo-American discourse and in China studies from the Cold War to today. It shows how, in popular opinion but also in academia, that discourse has displayed a stubborn tendency to explain-or rather explain away-China's presents, configuring them strictly in relation to pasts that can never be overcome and futures that are either never realized or always dangerously looming. This ideological framing has its roots in Cold War anticommunism, which was foundational to China studies in the US, but lingers on to this day, as China's coevalness is continuously denied.
AB - This essay traces how China's changing presents have been represented in Anglo-American discourse and in China studies from the Cold War to today. It shows how, in popular opinion but also in academia, that discourse has displayed a stubborn tendency to explain-or rather explain away-China's presents, configuring them strictly in relation to pasts that can never be overcome and futures that are either never realized or always dangerously looming. This ideological framing has its roots in Cold War anticommunism, which was foundational to China studies in the US, but lingers on to this day, as China's coevalness is continuously denied.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1479244322000130
DO - 10.1017/S1479244322000130
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85164345956
SN - 1479-2443
VL - 20
SP - 601
EP - 611
JO - Modern Intellectual History
JF - Modern Intellectual History
IS - 2
ER -