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  • 3 - Making Sense through Ideology

  • from Part I - Ideology and the Party in Law
  • Edited by Rogier J. E. H. Creemers, Universiteit Leiden, Susan Trevaskes, Griffith University, Queensland
  • Book:
    Law and the Party in China
    Published online:
    17 December 2020
    Print publication:
    07 January 2021, pp 64-96

  • Summary

    Gloria Davies’ chapter focuses on two aspects of ideology that help to determine how we can look at law in China. She contrasts two different ways of thinking about ideology, one implicit and the other explicit. She first considers how the disciplinary rules and conventions of academic work sustain the discursive dominance of certain patterns of understanding. Second, she looks at the dominance of ideology under Xi Jinping, particularly how it has worked to undermine academic inquiry in China in some areas and to produce a more explicitly political understanding of China’s ‘socialist rule of law’ in others. With these issues in mind, she explores Party ideology as a cultural and linguistic phenomenon of China’s Party-state system. She argues that to the extent that ideology is shaped by spoken and written communications, texts and images, its imprint as a dominant pattern of understanding is contingent as much on the persuasiveness of what it promises and represents as on its institutional entrenchment.