What are states, and how are they made? Scholars of European
history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This
study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a
trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral
regulation and social control were at least as central to
state-making as the exercise of coercive power.
State-making is, in China as elsewhere, a profoundly normative
and normalizing process. This study maps the complex processes of
state-making, moral regulation, and social control during three
critical reform periods: the Yongzheng reign (1723-1735), the
Guomindang's Nanjing decade (1927-1937), and the Communist Party's
Socialist Education Campaign (1962-1966). During each period,
central authorities introduced--not without
resistance--institutional change designed to extend the reach of
central control over local political life. The successes and
failures of state-building in each case rested largely upon the
ability of each regime to construct itself as an autonomous moral
agent both separate from and embedded in an imagined political
community. Thornton offers a historical reading of the state-making
process as a contest between central and local regimes of
bureaucratic and discursive practice.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Asia Center
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Release date: |
May 2007 |
| First published: |
May 2007 |
| Authors: |
Patricia M. Thornton
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
275 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-02504-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-674-02504-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780674025042 |
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