![]() Leaving aside the monumental question of Chinese exceptionalism as seen from within China, this Element focusses on heated international debates around some of the key issues of our present moment – that is, labour rights, digital surveillance, mass internment in Xinjiang, investment overseas, and the erosion of academic freedom. It frames positive, negative, and ambivalent discussions about the country, particularly in relation to the increasing presence and entanglement of Chinese entities in the global socio-economic and geopolitical systems. This holds true for those who look at China from the outside and those who experience it from the inside, as ‘Othered’ representations of China are also common in Chinese official and unofficial discourses.īoth in China and the West – and across much of the Global South – this underlying assumption of China’s inherent separation and difference, and its status as an external agent of change, cuts across political and ideological spectrums. Either implicitly or explicitly, China is often depicted as something that can be understood in isolation – an external force with the potential to impact the ‘normal’ functioning of things. Even after four decades of integration into the global socio-economic system, becoming the ‘world’s factory’ and second largest economy, most discussions of China continue to be underpinned and bounded by a core assumption – that the country represents a fundamentally different ‘Other’ that somehow exists apart from the ‘real’ world. ![]() ![]() Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. ![]()
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