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1 online resource. |
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China understandings today |
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China understandings today.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index. |
| Summary |
While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a post-crisis state to respond to updated concepts, new circumstances, changed social demands, and a realigned elite consensus. In Engineering Stability, Yan Xiaojun examines the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to reassert control and restore order on university campuses in the post-Tiananmen era. Since prominent national universities serve the nation-state as training grounds for the country's future political, economic, and cultural elites, public life on university campuses has immediate political relevance. Drawing on rich materials gathered from in-depth field research in China during the Xi Jinping era, Engineering Stability invites scholars of comparative politics, state theory, contentious politics, and political development to rethink and reimagine how what Yan calls "a compromised autocratic state" is rebuilt within and from itself after overcoming a traumatic moment of vulnerability. The book further details the four types of infrastructure - institutional, significative, regulatory, and incentivizing - that state rebuilders need to overhaul, and looks into the campaign of state rebuilding in post-Tiananmen Chinese universities and its implications for our understanding of politics in general. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Access |
Open access |
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: The Compromised State and Its Reinvention -- Two: Concentric Circles- The Institutional Infrastructure -- Three: A Torrent of Encounters- The Significative Infrastructure -- Four: Shaping Public Life- The Regulatory Infrastructure -- Five: Nurturing Compliance- The Incentivization Infrastructure -- Six: At the Perilous Moment- Critical and Sensitive Periods -- Seven: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Zhongguo gong chan dang.
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Higher education and state -- China.
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Universities and colleges -- Political aspects -- China.
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- China.
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China -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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Education and state -- China -- 21st century.
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Universities and colleges -- Political aspects -- China -- 21st century.
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- China -- 21st century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yan, Xiaojun Engineering stability Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024 9780472077052 (DLC) 2024030254 |
| ISBN |
9780472904679 (electronic bk. other) |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.14364295 doi |
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