TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vivienne Shue
AU  - Vivienne Shue
TI  - The reach of the state : : sketches of the Chinese body politic
SN  - 9780804718042
U1  - 951.05 SHU 
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Stanford, Calif. 
PB  - : Stanford University Press
KW  - History
KW  - ;China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
KW  - ;Socialism -- China
N1  - Introduction; 1. State, society, and politics under Mao; 2. Peasant localism and the Chinese state; 3. The reach of the state; 4. Honeycomb and web; Notes
N2  - Includes four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China that argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. This title 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
ER  -