Jiang Shigong

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jiang Shigong
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Nov 11, 1967(1967-11-11)
Age	57
Birthplace	Yulin
Country	China
Birth City	Shaanxi
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jiang Shigong Biography

Jiang Shigong is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on November 11, 1967 in Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Jiang Shigong (born 11 November 1967; Chinese: 强世功 ) is a Chinese legal and political theorist, currently a professor at Peking University Law School, and a researcher on Hong Kong affairs. He is a “conservative socialist” exponent of Xi Jinping Thought and opposed to liberalism in China. Jiang previously worked at the Hong Kong Liaison Office from 2004 to 2008, and has advised the Chinese government on Hong Kong on subsequent occasions. Among his major ideas are his theory of the “absolute” or unwritten constitution of China embodied in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and his argument for the supremacy of the state as an “ethical entity” and the embodiment of the people’s drive towards self-transformation. One of the main Chinese translators of Carl Schmitt, Jiang is a notable promoter of Schmitt’s political theory in China.

Jiang has been described as a member of the Chinese New Left, a “conservative socialist”, and an implicit Legalist. He played a significant role in the introduction of the thought of Carl Schmitt in China, and is a “preeminent representative” of Schmittian theory in the country. Commenting on the colour revolutions of the 2000s, Jiang stated, “The crucial questions in politics are not questions of right and wrong, but of obedience and disobedience. If you do not submit to political authority, then ‘If I say you’re wrong, you’re wrong, even if you’re right.’ ” Echoing Schmitt’s theory of the friend–enemy distinction, he added, “Between friends and enemies, there is no question of freedom, only violence and subjugation. This is the reality of politics, a reality that liberals often do not dare to face.”

Jiang Shigong Net Worth

Jiang Shigong is one of the richest Philosopher from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jiang Shigong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born on 11 November 1967 in Yulin, Shaanxi, Jiang attended high school in Hengshan District, graduating in 1986. He describes his decision to pursue studies in law as purely accidental, motivated at the time by his lack of knowledge about alternative fields such as economics. Jiang matriculated at Renmin University of China, graduating in 1990, and went on to receive a masters at Peking University in 1996 and a doctorate there in 1999. His thesis was titled Punishment and the Rule of Law (惩罚与法治 ), and was subsequently published as a book in edited form in 2009.

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Rejecting what he sees as the liberal subordination of the state to civil society and the idea that the state is “something to take precautions against”, Jiang argues that the state is instead an “ethical entity” that represents the attempt of the people to “transcend and transform” themselves, in the manner of the Übermensch in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Jiang has attacked the thought of John Rawls on the basis that reasoning from the veil of ignorance cannot contribute to political legitimacy: the legitimacy of the state is premised on the civilisational values it embodies and cannot be understood rationally. Drawing on Max Weber, he depicts politics as the product of the “unceasing, deadly struggles of different gods”—different civilisations—with no rational conclusion; the politics of one civilisation cannot be adjudicated by the values of another.

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Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Jiang Shigong celebrates birthday on November 11 of every year.

In 2018, Jiang published a commentary on Party general secretary Xi Jinping’s report to the 19th National Congress of the CCP. In the essay, he states that certain political forces since the Deng Xiaoping era attempted to introduce “subversive reforms of the political system”, which would have diminished and eventually eliminated the leadership of the Communist Party and created a “Western democracy” in China. On the other hand, the appearance of exploitative capitalist forces in China created nostalgia for the “stagnation” of the era before reform and opening-up. “At [this] moment of historical crisis”, Jiang argues, “Xi Jinping has turned the tide”, legitimising Xi’s position as “core of the Party center, the core of the entire Party”. Jiang states that Xi is a charismatic leader who exceeds institutional constraints and constitutes the ideological and spiritual centre of the Chinese state. A major task of Xi Jinping Thought on his account is to reconfigure communism as an intuitive ideal, moving away from what he sees as the utopian and Judeo- Christian political theology of Karl Marx while retaining Marx’s focus on historical materialism.