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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Virtue and venality in the Qing
- Localist critiques of corruption and virtue
- Political corruption and the nationalist state
- Local communities and political corruption during the Nanjing decade
- Political corruption and the Maoist state
- Local variations in the "big four cleans"
- Conclusion : the moral language of state-making.