Zenodo. 2026This paper presents a legal-civilizational prosecution of Xi Jinping's doctrine of "ecological civilization" (shengtai wenming), which he has elevated into a defining claim of his rule and written into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. It does not measure China against Western liberal or humanitarian standards, which the state has learned to deflect as foreign imposition. It measures China against the moral standard China claims for itself: the inheritance of Heav
