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Policing Chinese Politics - A History (Paperback)
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Policing Chinese Politics - A History (Paperback)
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
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Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of
the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild
excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics
explores the question of revolutionary violence and the political
passion that propels it. "Who are our enemies, who are our friends,
that is a question germane to the revolution," wrote Mao Zedong in
1926. Michael Dutton shows just how powerful this one line was to
become. It would establish the binary division of life in
revolutionary China and lead to both passionate commitment and
revolutionary excess. The political history of revolutionary China,
he argues, is largely framed by the attempts of Mao and the Party
to harness these passions. The economic reform period that followed
Mao Zedong's rule contained a hint as to how the magic spell of
political faith and commitment could be broken, but the cost of
such disenchantment was considerable. This detailed, empirical tale
of Chinese socialist policing is, therefore, more than simply a
police story. It is a parable that offers a cogent analysis of
Chinese politics generally while radically redrafting our
understanding of what politics is all about. Breaking away from the
traditional elite modes of political analysis that focus on
personalities, factions, and betrayals, and from "rational"
accounts of politics and government, Dutton provides a highly
original understanding of the far-reaching consequences of acts of
faith and commitment in the realm of politics.
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