State formation in China and Taiwan bureaucracy, campaign, and performance

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949. Julia C....

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1. Verfasser: Strauss, Julia C. ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press [2020]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : modalities of state building and institution building : bureaucracies, campaigns, and performance
  • Virtue and talent in making Chinese states : heroes and technocrats in Sunan and Taiwan, 1949-1954
  • Comparative terror in regime consolidation : Sunan and Taiwan, 1949-1954
  • Performing terror : lenience, legality, and the dramaturgy of the consolidating state
  • Repertoires of land reform campaigns in Sunan and Taiwan, 1950-1954
  • Theatres of land reform : bureaucracy, campaign, and the show, 1950-1954
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: List of interviewees
  • Documentary collections, reports, and Periodicals