Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China

(Book #283 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

by Patricia M. Thornton

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What are states, and how are they made? Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral regulation and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power.

State-making is, in China as elsewhere, a profoundly normative and normalizing...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674025040

ISBN13:9780674025042

Release Date:May 2007

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:247 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China

(Book #283 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

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