{"product_id":"state-formation-in-china-and-taiwan-bureaucracy-campaign-and-performance-paperback-9781108701655","title":"State Formation in China and Taiwan; Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108701655","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eState Formation in China and Taiwan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and 'conservative' Taiwan in the early 1950s.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulia C. Strauss (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108701655, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 11 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Overall, an excellent book, well worth the attention that it will receive from both historians of modern China and political scientists interested in state formation.' Carl Minzner, Journal of Chinese Political Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. Modalities of state building and institution building: bureaucracies, campaigns, and performance\u003cbr\u003e 1. Virtue and talent in making Chinese states: heroes and technocrats in Sunan and Taiwan, 1949–1954\u003cbr\u003e 2. Comparative terror in regime consolidation: Sunan and Taiwan, 1949–1954\u003cbr\u003e 3. Performing terror: lenience, legality, and the dramaturgy of the consolidating state\u003cbr\u003e 4. Repertoires of land reform campaigns in Sunan and Taiwan, 1950–1954\u003cbr\u003e 5. Theatres of land reform: bureaucracy, campaign, and the show, 1950–1954\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: list of interviewees\u003cbr\u003e Documentary collections, reports, and periodicals.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Nationalism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Nationalism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Nationalism%20%5BJPFN%5D%22\"\u003eJPFN\u003c\/a\u003e], Marxism \u0026amp; Communism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Marxism \u0026amp; Communism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Marxism%20\u0026amp;%20Communism%20%5BJPFC%5D%22\"\u003eJPFC\u003c\/a\u003e], Comparative politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Comparative politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Comparative%20politics%20%5BJPB%5D%22\"\u003eJPB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003125944600,"sku":"9781108701655","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108701655i_90131359-6151-41bb-b8c7-3a3d8dde62b1.jpg?v=1696708533","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/state-formation-in-china-and-taiwan-bureaucracy-campaign-and-performance-paperback-9781108701655","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}