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Author Strauss, Julia C., author

Title State formation in China and Taiwan : bureaucracy, campaign, and performance / Julia C. Strauss
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : modalities of state building and institution building : bureaucracies, campaigns, and performance -- Virtue and talent in making Chinese states : heroes and technocrats in Sunan and Taiwan, 1949-1954 -- Comparative terror in regime consolidation : Sunan and Taiwan, 1949-1954 -- Performing terror : lenience, legality, and the dramaturgy of the consolidating state -- Repertoires of land reform campaigns in Sunan and Taiwan, 1950-1954 -- Theatres of land reform : bureaucracy, campaign, and the show, 1950-1954 -- Conclusion -- Appendix : List of interviewees -- Documentary collections, reports, and periodicals
Summary This 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Political stability -- China -- Sunan Yuguzu Zizhixian
Political stability -- Taiwan
Bureaucracy -- China -- Sunan Yuguzu Zizhixian
Bureaucracy -- Taiwan
Land reform -- China -- Sunan Yuguzu Zizhixian
Land reform -- Taiwan
Bureaucracy
Land reform
Political stability
Politics and government
SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024173
Sunan Yuguzu Zizhixian (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132000
Subject China
China -- Sunan Yuguzu Zizhixian
Taiwan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108569163
1108569161