Easting the West. Interview with Chenchen Zhang – 21 July 2026

Chenchen Zhang, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 272 pp.

Luke de Noronha is joined by Chenchen Zhang, Associate Professor in International Relations at Durham University. Chenchen’s book Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2026. The book examines how ideas of ‘the West’ and articulations of China-West difference are produced and mobilized in contemporary China, with a focus on reactionary political discourse in Chinese cyberspace. Chenchen situates the Chinese case study within a wider critique of the global far right and postcolonial nationalisms.

Anti-Baizuo Discourse (en), Antifeminism (en), Chenchen Zhang (en), China (en), Chinamaxxing (en), Civilisational Discourse (en), Culture (en), Developmental Racism (en), Developmentalism (en), East Asia (en), Internet (en), Left and Right (en), Luke de Noronha (en), Majoritarianism (en), Masculinism (en), Media (en), Meritocracy Discourse (en), Nationalism (en), Neoliberalism (en), Postliberalism (en), Public Opinion in China (en), Racialisation (en), Racism (en), Racism in China (en), Reactionary Decolonialism (en), Social Evolutionism (en), The Far Right (en), The Far Right in China (en), The Far Right in East Asia (en), The Global Far Right (en), Whiteness (en)

Easting the West. Interview with Chenchen Zhang – 21 July 2026

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