Thornton, Patricia M. <br/><br/>
Disciplining the state :  virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China / 
Patricia M. Thornton. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Asia Center :  Distributed by Harvard University Press,  2007. 
 - ix, 247 p. ;  247 cm. 
 - Harvard East Asian monographs ;  283 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674025042 (cl : alk. paper) 0674025040 (cl : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006038683 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA718671  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013689207  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political corruption--History.--China
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JQ1510  / .T48 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.951