Julia C. Strauss

State Formation in China and Taiwan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476867
• ISBN-10: 1108476864
• Artikelnr.: 56875260

Autorenporträt

Julia C. Strauss is Professor of Chinese Politics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where she served as Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002 to 2011. Her work focuses on the twentieht-century Chinese state in China and Taiwan, the performative dimensions of politics, and China's 'Going Out' to the developing world, particularly towards Africa, and has published widely on these topics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Modalities of state building and institution building: bureaucracies
campaigns
and performance; 1. Virtue and talent in making Chinese states: heroes and technocrats in Sunan and Taiwan
1949-1954; 2. Comparative terror in regime consolidation: Sunan and Taiwan
1949-1954; 3. Performing terror: lenience
legality
and the dramaturgy of the consolidating state; 4. Repertoires of land reform campaigns in Sunan and Taiwan
1950-1954; 5. Theatres of land reform: bureaucracy
campaign
and the show
1950-1954; Conclusion; Appendix: list of interviewees; Documentary collections
reports
and periodicals.