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In recent years, the increasingly important role of China and the reforms pursued by the Chinese government have been major topics of interest for political scientists. However, the emergence of governance discourse in China has largely been ignored. By analyzing this discourse, this paper has the following aims: (1) to introduce the emergence of Chinese discourse within the context of other discourses on political reforms, singling out the dominant concept of governance; (2) to examine various views held by Chinese scholars concerning the adoption of the concept; and (3) to address the question of its political relevance. ; Die wachsende Bedeutung und die politischen Reformen Chinas standen in den letzten Jahren im Fokus der politikwissenschaftlichen Chinaforschung. Der innerchinesische Governance- Diskurs ist dabei größtenteils nicht beachtet worden. Der Artikel verfolgt mit der Analyse dieses Diskurses folgende Ziele: (1) das Aufzeigen der Entstehung des Governance- Diskurses im Kontext anderer Reformdiskurse und die Identifizierung eines innerhalb dieser Diskurse dominanten Governance-Begriffes; (2) die Analyse von Sichtweisen verschiedener chinesischer Diskursteilnehmer auf das Governance-Konzept im Hinblick auf dessen Adaptierung im nationalen Kontext und (3) die Klärung der Frage nach der politischen Relevanz des Governance-Diskurses.

Abstract.Nationalism is a theory about the nature, purposes, boundaries and the basis of the legitimacy and the unity of the state. It maintains that the state should ideally be constituted as a nation. This means that a nation has a right to form a state of its own, as also that every state should endeavour to become a nation. The nationalist discourse rests on several assumptions, such as that nationalism is a universal phenomenon, that nationalist movements have identical structures, that all nations aim to become independent states, that non‐Western nationalism is derivative in nature and that nationalism is an unmitigated evil. The author elucidates the distinctive nature of nationalism and criticises these and related assumptions.

Rights are vital for the arrival of equal beings. Of late, rights are marginalised in the context of capitalism-led pauperisation and heightening ascriptive discrimination. In social sciences, rights discourse has been replaced by citizenship discourse wherein the state becomes the decider of rights. In this context, rekindling of rights discourse becomes immensely significant in the backdrop of creative theory. Rights are political affirmations and delinked from duties. There have to be interdependence and interconnection of varied rights. Besides, the new direction of rights emphasises on theorisation of world or critical knowledge production domain on four accounts (production of collective epistemic, arrival of critical theory, treatment of critical knowledge as counteraction of post-ideologies/ism /philosophies and delinking abstract and concrete rights). Reconceptualisation of rights in creative society brings back the domain of normative political theory while highlighting the deficiency of prevalent system along with the urge for an alternative system by struggling equals.