Disciplining the state : virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China / Patricia M. Thornton.
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TextSeries: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 283Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007Description: ix, 247 p. ; 247 cmISBN: 9780674025042 (cl : alk. paper); 0674025040 (cl : alk. paper)Subject(s): Political corruption -- China -- History | China -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 320.951 LOC classification: JQ1510 | .T48 2007Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Introduction -- Virtue and venality in the Qing -- Localist critiques of corruption and virtue -- Political corruption and the nationalist state -- Local communities and political corruption during the Nanjing decade -- Political corruption and the Maoist state -- Local variations in the "big four cleans" -- Conclusion : the moral language of state-making.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index.
Introduction -- Virtue and venality in the Qing -- Localist critiques of corruption and virtue -- Political corruption and the nationalist state -- Local communities and political corruption during the Nanjing decade -- Political corruption and the Maoist state -- Local variations in the "big four cleans" -- Conclusion : the moral language of state-making.
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