Reach of the State Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic

Name: Reach of the State Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic
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ISBN: 9780804718042

ISBN-10: 0804718040

ISBN-13: 9780804718042

Edition: 1988

Authors: Vivienne Shue

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These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they explore two major themes from different historical and theoretical points of departure.First, the author argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved. She shows, instead, how the Maoist state frequently pursued policies that in fact had the ironic effect of strengthening the resistance of rural communities against the central political apparatus. Second, she contends that once the true limitations…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



State, Society and Politics Under Mao Theory and Irony in the Study of Contemporary China



Peasant Localism and the Chinese State a Center-Periphery Approach to the Evolution of State Socialism Under Mao



The Reach of the State a Comparative-Historical Approach to the """"Modernization"""" of Local Government in China



Honeycomb and Web the Process of Change in Rural China


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