State Formation in China and Taiwan

Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvJulia C. Strauss,University of London) Strauss, Julia C. (School of Oriental and African Studies,Julia C Strauss

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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. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their divergent ideology and institutions fails to recognise their similarities and their relative successes. Both, after all, emerged from a common background of Leninist party organization amid civil war and foreign invasion. However, by the mid-1950s they were on clearly different trajectories of state-building and development. Focusing on Sunan and Taiwan, Strauss considers state personnel, the use of terror and land reform to explore the evolution of these revolutionary and conservative regimes between 1949 and 1954. In so doing, she sheds important new light on twentieth-century political change in East Asia, deepening our understanding of state formation.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-07
Mått153 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor292
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108701655

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Julia C. Strauss is Professor of Chinese Politics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where she served as Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002 to 2011. Her work focuses on the twentieht-century Chinese state in China and Taiwan, the performative dimensions of politics, and China's 'Going Out' to the developing world, particularly towards Africa, and has published widely on these topics.

Introduction. Modalities of state building and institution building: bureaucracies, campaigns, and performance; 1. Virtue and talent in making Chinese states: heroes and technocrats in Sunan and Taiwan, 1949–1954; 2. Comparative terror in regime consolidation: Sunan and Taiwan, 1949–1954; 3. Performing terror: lenience, legality, and the dramaturgy of the consolidating state; 4. Repertoires of land reform campaigns in Sunan and Taiwan, 1950–1954; 5. Theatres of land reform: bureaucracy, campaign, and the show, 1950–1954; Conclusion; Appendix: list of interviewees; Documentary collections, reports, and periodicals.

'A meticulously researched and elegantly presented study of state consolidation in mainland China and Taiwan. By shrinking the mainland geographic focus to Sunan, where the social roots of the communists were relatively weak, Strauss exploits rich archival data and builds analytical leverage to illuminate commonalities and differences in strategies of the two states as outsiders after 1949.' Melanie Manion, Duke University, North Carolina

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