{"id":4190,"date":"2014-12-30T20:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T01:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2014-12-30T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T01:25:59","slug":"qian-gang%ef%bc%9areading-chinese-politics-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/qian-gang%ef%bc%9areading-chinese-politics-in-2014","title":{"rendered":"Qian Gang\uff1aReading Chinese politics in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on 2014-12-30<\/p>\n<p>As we come to the end of 2014, we can say that this year has brought a \u201chardening\u201d (\u677f\u7ed3) of China\u2019s political discourse. It\u2019s been a year of cleansing in the ideological sphere, <!--more-->and we find now that virtually all of the terms related to political reform, ones we might previously have classified as \u201clight blue\u201d (\u6d45\u84dd) \u2014 not part of the official Chinese Communist Party discourse but still tolerated \u2014 have entered the taboo zone of the \u201cdark blue\u201d (\u6df1\u84dd).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the \u201clight red\u201d terms (\u6d45\u7ea2) favored by those in power have undergone a complete shake-up (\u5168\u9762\u91cd\u7ec4). To top it all off, a number of \u201cdeep red\u201d keywords associated with the Maoist pre-reform era have made a comeback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/mao-500x331.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/mao-500x331-300x198.png\" alt=\"mao-500x331\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/mao-500x331-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/mao-500x331.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>[ABOVE: China\u2019s political discourse is at least as enigmatic today as it was in the era of Mao Zedong. Is China heading forward, or back?]<\/p>\n<p>What follows is my 2014 Report on Political Keywords in China. Let us begin with the most troubled term of all, the embattled concept of \u201cconstitutionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Term \u201cConstitution\u201d (\u5baa) is Battered About in the Winds<\/p>\n<p>The biggest discourse incident of 2014 was the disappearance for a time of a pair of phrases President Xi Jinping gave some degree of emphasis soon after becoming the General Secretary of the CCP. Those terms are: \u201cruling the nation in accord with the constitution\u201d (\u4f9d\u5baa\u6cbb\u56fd) and \u201cgoverning in accord with the constitution\u201d (\u4f9d\u5baa\u6267\u653f). The terms re-emerged in September this year, following many months of chilly in-fighting over constitutionalism and its relevance for China.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cmp.hku.hk\/2014\/12\/30\/37469\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on 2014-12-30 As we come to the e &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/qian-gang%ef%bc%9areading-chinese-politics-in-2014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1092,1093],"views":4610,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}