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Disciplining the State : Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thornton, Patricia M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 languages of state-making