China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy

Shaoying Zhang is Associate Professor of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and a Shanghai Young Eastern Scholar.Derek McGhee is Professor and Head of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

• 1. Introduction .- 2. The China Dream, History, Religion and Modernization .- 3. Comparisons, Paradigms and the Remnant of Division: Our Approach .- 4. Discourses of Corruption: The Contest between Different Authorities .- 5. State of Exception: The Examination of Anti-Corruption Practices .- 6. The Discourse of Formalism and Bureaucraticism: The Contest of Order within the Party .- 7. Discourse of Hedonism and Extravagance: Tension between the Agency and the Actor .- 8. The Mass Line Education Programme .- 9. Technologies of the Self .- 10. Remnant and Hybridization: The Effects of Governing.