State Formation in China and Taiwan - Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance (Paperback)

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949. Julia C. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their divergent ideology and institutions fails to recognise their similarities and their relative successes. Both, after all, emerged from a common background of Leninist party organization amid civil war and foreign invasion. However, by the mid-1950s they were on clearly different trajectories of state-building and development. Focusing on Sunan and Taiwan, Strauss considers state personnel, the use of terror and land reform to explore the evolution of these revolutionary and conservative regimes between 1949 and 1954. In so doing, she sheds important new light on twentieth-century political change in East Asia, deepening our understanding of state formation.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2019
Authors:	Julia C. Strauss
Dimensions:	228 x 153 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-70165-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism
LSN:	1-108-70165-5
Barcode:	9781108701655

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