Post-Tiananmen Chinese nationalism frames both democracy and Leninism as foreign impositions

Evidence

A Chinese cultural nationalism is thus emerging, epitomized in the words of one Hong Kong leader in 1994: “We Chinese feel nationalist which we never felt before. We are Chinese and feel proud in that.” In China itself in the early 1990s there developed a “popular desire to return to what is authentically Chinese, which often is patriarchal, nativistic, and authoritarian. Democracy, in this historical reemergence, is discredited, as is Leninism, as just another foreign imposition.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 287

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how the frame of ‘foreign imposition’ allows a regime to tar both Western democracy and its own Marxist heritage with the same brush.