Introduction: Legitimisation, Resistance and Discursive Struggles in Contemporary China

Cao, Qing

Abstract

Without legitimacy, words are invalid; invalid words lead man to nowhere’.(名不正则言不顺，言不顺则事不成。Mingbuzheng zhe yanbushun; yanbushun zhe shibucheng) Confucius (The Analects)‘Truth’ is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statement.‘Truth’ is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A ‘regime’ of truth.Foucault (in Rabinow 1984: 74)

Citation

Cao, Q. (2014). Introduction: Legitimisation, Resistance and Discursive Struggles in Contemporary China. In Q. Cao, H. Tian, & P. Chilton (Eds.), Discourse, politics and media in contemporary China (1-22). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.54.01int

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Aug 3, 2014
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
• Pages: 1-22
• Series Title: Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture
• Series Number: 54
• Book Title: Discourse, politics and media in contemporary China.
• ISBN: 9789027206459
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.54.01int
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1648722