These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they explore two major themes from different historical and theoretical points of departure.
First, the author argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved. She shows, instead, how the Maoist state frequently pursued policies that in fact had the ironic effect of strengthening the resistance of rural communities against the central political apparatus. Second, she contends that once the true limitations on the Maoist state's power in rural areas are rightly understood, it becomes clear that one effect of the post-Mao economic and political reforms may be to enhance rather than to diminish the state's authority in the countryside — despite all the reformists' rhetoric to the contrary.
These essays on "how to think about the Chinese state" are designed to stimulate debate about assumptions and methods in the field of Chinese political analysis. The controversies they raise, however, make them highly relevant to scholars outside Chinese studies who are interested in theories of the state, in the interrelations of state and society, and in the fate of the peasantry under socialism.
Vivienne Shue is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University.
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有的地方已成常识,有的地方值得商榷,有的地方过于理想化,但依旧值得一读。英文写得很漂亮,抄了不少(
评分Interesting argument which I cannot agree
评分I want to write like Shue, but I cannot agree with her theory of the state.
评分Beautifully written, but sometimes can be repetitive.一些观点过于ideal和simplified,在作者提出关注“process”的同时却缺乏更多的细致描写。当然不能太过苛求一本近似methodology的书。第一章对social scientist关于PRC的研究梳理得很好,第三章的长时段变迁阅读体验不错但略显粗糙。如果和Duara的作品一起读会很有趣。虽然Duara同样擅长建立新概念和模型,但相比Shue显得更令人信服。Still biased toward a historian.
评分有的地方已成常识,有的地方值得商榷,有的地方过于理想化,但依旧值得一读。英文写得很漂亮,抄了不少(
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