Disciplining the State
Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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Author
Publication
2007-05-31 - Harvard University Asia Center
Language
English
Word Count
68,750 words, Guess
Page Count
275 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7691953M
- ISBN-139780674025042
- ISBN-100674025040
- OCLC Control Number76828773
- OCLC Control Number173717360
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number979929890
- Library of Congress Control Number2006038683
- Goodreads1679711
- LibraryThing6150478
Classifications
- LCCJQ1510 .T48 2007
Description
"What are states, and how are they made? Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral regulation and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power." "The key finding is that state-making is, in China as elsewhere, a profoundly normative and normalizing process. Central leaders seek not only to impose a particular moral order, but also to make the presence of the state at the center of that vision appear both natural and necessary. This study maps the complex processes of state-making, moral regulation, and social control during three critical reform periods: the Yongzheng reign (1723-1735), the Guomindang's Nanjing decade (1927-1937); and the Communist Party's Socialist Education Campaign (1962-1966)."--BOOK JACKET.
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