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Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
Edited by Qing Cao, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 54] 2014
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Introduction

Legitimisation, resistance and discursive struggles in contemporary China

| Durham University

‘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)

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