Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic

The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic

Shue, Vivienne

Paperback

Chinese History

ISBN10: 0804718040
ISBN13: 9780804718042
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 1990
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.49
Language: English

These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they explore two major themes from different historical and theoretical points of departure.

First, the author argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved. She shows, instead, how the Maoist state frequently pursued policies that in fact had the ironic effect of strengthening the resistance of rural communities against the central political apparatus. Second, she contends that once the true limitations on the Maoist state's power in rural areas are rightly understood, it becomes clear that one effect of the post-Mao economic and political reforms may be to enhance rather than to diminish the state's authority in the countryside -- despite all the reformists' rhetoric to the contrary.

Also in

Chinese History

View All