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Disciplining the state
- Alternative title:
- virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China
- Abstract:
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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 process. This study maps the complex processes of state...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China Journal website
- Host title:
- Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China
- Publication date:
- 2007-05-01
- Source identifiers:
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640274
- ISBN:
- 9780674025042
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- Pubs id:
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:640274
- Deposit date:
- 2016-08-23
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- Copyright holder:
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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