Michael Dutton is a reader in political science at the University of Melbourne. He also has an appointment as a professor of politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to “The People” and The Crisis of Marxism in China and the editor of Streetlife China.
Preface vii
Introduction: A Theoretical Explanation 1
1. Friends and Enemies: The War Within 23
2. From Class to Nation: Limiting the Excess in Yan’an 71
3. The Government of Struggle: Institutions of the Binary 133
4. The Years That Burned 197
5. The End of the (Mass) Line? Chinese Politics in the Era of the Contract
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Concluding Reflections 301
Glossary 317
Notes 331
References 375
Index 395
