Engineering stability : rebuilding the state in twenty-first-century Chinese universities / Yan Xiaojun

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yan, Xiaojun.

Series:

China understandings today.

China Understandings Today

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zhongguo gong chan dang.

Education and state--China--21st century.

Education and state.

Universities and colleges--Political aspects--China--21st century.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Political aspects--China--21st century.

Education, Higher.

China--Politics and government--21st century.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Summary:

While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a post-crisis state to respond to updated concepts, new circumstances, changed social demands, and a realigned elite consensus. In Engineering Stability, Yan Xiaojun examines the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to reassert control and restore order on university campuses in the post-Tiananmen era. Since prominent national universities serve the nation-state as training grounds for the country's future political, economic, and cultural elites, public life on university campuses has immediate political relevance. Drawing on rich materials gathered from in-depth field research in China during the Xi Jinping era, Engineering Stability invites scholars of comparative politics, state theory, contentious politics, and political development to rethink and reimagine how what Yan calls "a compromised autocratic state" is rebuilt within and from itself after overcoming a traumatic moment of vulnerability. The book further details the four types of infrastructure -- institutional, significative, regulatory, and incentivizing -- that state rebuilders need to overhaul, and looks into the campaign of state rebuilding in post-Tiananmen Chinese universities and its implications for our understanding of politics in general.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One: The Compromised State and Its Reinvention

Two: Concentric Circles- The Institutional Infrastructure

Three: A Torrent of Encounters- The Significative Infrastructure

Four: Shaping Public Life- The Regulatory Infrastructure

Five: Nurturing Compliance- The Incentivization Infrastructure

Six: At the Perilous Moment- Critical and Sensitive Periods

Seven: Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472904679

0472904671

OCLC:

1443191417