TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thornton,Patricia M.
TI  - Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China 
SN  - 9780674025042 (cl : alk. paper)
AV  - JQ1510 .T48 2007
U1  - 320.951 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006038683.html
ER  -