China and Sovereignty

Telos 215 continues our series of issues on contemporary Chinese politics and thought. In this issue, we examine how Chinese engagement with Western thinkers such as Marx, Foucault, and Schmitt has shaped competing visions of sovereignty and world order. We also feature a special section on China and Taiwan, drawn from a recent symposium at the University of California, Irvine, on the nature of the Chinese government and the appropriate U.S. response to China’s rise.

Introduction
David Pan

The “Cultural Revolution” in China and World Political Thought
Alexander Lukin

Immanent Critique without Rupture: Daoist Philosophy and the Archaeology of Order
Guojun Jiang

Schmitt in China

Sous l’œil des Chinois: The Reception of Carl Schmitt in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought
Alvise Capria

Carl Schmitt, Nazism, and the Silence of Chinese Intellectuals
Qi Zheng

China’s Schmitt Fever: Instrumentalization of Carl Schmitt by Chinese Ideological Elites
Joseph W. Bendersky

China, Taiwan, and the United States

The Nature of Chinese Communism: Taiwan, Free Societies, and the World of Tomorrow
Gordon G. Chang

The Three Layers of China’s Politeia
Eric Hendriks

China, Sovereignty, and World Order: The Chinese Communist Party’s Attempt to Transform International Norms
David Pan

The Nature of the Chinese Regime and What the United States Should Do
Miles Yu

From Ideology to Strategy: Rethinking the Chinese Challenge
Russell A. Berman

A Quarter Century of Peace and Prosperity
John Graham

Notes and Commentary

Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Boredom: A Rejoinder to Hendriks and Pan
Salvatore Babones