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1 online resource (ix, 247 pages). |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 283
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 283.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index. |
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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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
"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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
China -- Politics and government.
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China. |
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Politics and government. |
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Political corruption -- China -- History.
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Political corruption. |
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History. |
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China -- Politics and government -- History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Thornton, Patricia M. Disciplining the state. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006038683 (OCoLC)76828773 |
| ISBN |
9781684174539 (electronic book) |
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1684174538 (electronic book) |
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9780674025042 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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0674025040 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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