Disciplining the state : virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China / Patricia M. Thornton.
Disciplining the state : virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China / Patricia M. Thornton.
Disciplining the state : virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China / Patricia M. Thornton.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
Call Numbers
N320.951/ 81
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 247 p. ; 247 cm.
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 c...
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2007.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Summary
"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 coe...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Disciplining the state : virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China / Patricia M. Thornton.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 283.
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 283.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index.
Contextual Information
Other version (online)
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
N320.951/ 81
Record Identifier
74VKzBpO7XlM
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzBpO7XlM
Other Identifiers
ISBN
0674025040 (cl : alk. paper)
9780674025042 (cl : alk. paper)
DDC
320.951
MMS ID
991023598849702626
