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The reach of the state : sketches of the Chinese body politic /Vivienne Shue

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , ©1988.Description: ix, 175 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780804718042
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 951.05 SHU
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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