关键词: 协商民主, 翻译的创造性叛逆, 实践的创造性再生

Abstract: During a short period of tenplus years since it was introduced in China, deliberative democracy has undergone a transition from the creative treason of translation to the creative rebirth in practice. The creative treason of translation is mainly revealed in the attempts of using the existing political terminology in China to translate and connect with the theory of deliberative democracy from the West, in an expectation to develop the “deliberation” resources in the Chinese political discourses and practice to give rise to a new situation of deliberative democracy with Chinese characteristics. Nevertheless, such attempts are still trapped in a mode of thinking that simply embeds a model into a different space, ie. applying the Western concepts and theories as standards to the Chinese reality. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the deliberative democracy research has shown a new style, with the Chinese theories and discourses being consciously adopted by the academia to summarize and prove the features and advantages of deliberative democracy in China. The creative rebirth in practice is demonstrated in the Chinese deliberative democracy in the new era in three dimensions: the relations between the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, the driving forces in the practice of deliberative democracy, and the domains of the deliberative democracy practice.

Key words: deliberative democracy, creative treason of translation, creative rebirth in practice