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Disciplining the state : virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
283. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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)."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 247 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781684174539 1684174538 |