Disciplining the state : virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China / Patricia M. Thornton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, Patricia M.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 283.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 283

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption.

History.

Politics and government.

China--Politics and government--History.

China.

Political corruption--China--History.

Physical Description:

ix, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Summary:

an imagined political community. Thornton offers a historical reading of the state-making process as a contest between central and local regimes of bureaucratic and discursive practice.

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 language of state-making.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-236) and index.

ISBN:

0674025040

9780674025042

OCLC:

76828773