Title Righteous revolutionaries : morality, mobilization, and violence in the making of the Chinese state / Jeffrey A. Javed

Published Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts Series China understandings today China understandings today. Contents List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations for Major Archival and Documentary Sources -- Part I: Theory and OriginsIntroduction -- Chapter 1. The Context and Structure of Violent Land Reform after 1949 -- Chapter 2. Tracing the Origins of Moral Mobilization -- Part II: Mobilizing Violence -- Chapter 3. The Process of Moral Mobilization -- Chapter 4. Coercive Control and Mass Mobilized Violence -- Part III: Collective Identities and State Authority -- Chapter 5. Constructing Class Enemies in Huaibei and Jiangnan -- Chapter 6. Ingroup Solidarity and State-building During and After Land Reform -- Part IV: Comparative Perspectives and Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Moral Mobilization in Comparative Perspective -- Appendix A. Notes on Methodology and Sources -- Appendix B. Table of Landlords Struggled Against in Baoshan County for Chapter 5 -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality--shared understandings of right and wrong--to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats to their authority. Jeffrey A. Javed examines the Chinese Communist Party's mass mobilization of violence during its land reform campaign in the early 1950s, one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history. Using an array of novel archival, documentary, and quantitative historical data, this book illustrates that China's land reform campaign was not just about economic redistribution but rather part of a larger, brutally violent state-building effort to delegitimize the new party-state's internal rivals and establish its moral authority. Righteous Revolutionaries argues that the Chinese Party-state simultaneously removed perceived threats to its authority at the grassroots and bolstered its legitimacy through a process called moral mobilization. This mobilization process created a moral boundary that designated a virtuous ingroup of "the masses" and a demonized outgroup of "class enemies," mobilized the masses to participate in violence against this broadly defined outgroup, and strengthened this symbolic boundary by making the masses complicit in state violence. Righteous Revolutionaries shows how we can find traces of moral mobilization in China today under Xi Jinping's rule. In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment intergroup conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of violent mobilization and state authority are more relevant than ever before Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index Notes Information from the publisher Subject Political socialization -- China -- History -- 20th century Land reform -- China -- History -- 20th century Moral education -- China -- History Intergroup relations -- China -- History -- 20th century Dominant-party systems -- Psychological aspects History -- Asia -- China. Intergroup relations Land reform Moral education Political socialization China Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher. ISBN 9780472220458 0472220454 9780472903597 0472903594

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