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发表于2024-11-03
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Why did the Chinese party state collapse so quickly after the onset of the Cultural Revolution? The award-winning author of China Under Mao offers a surprising answer that holds a powerful implicit warning for today’s governments.
By May 1966, just seventeen years after its founding, the People’s Republic of China had become one of the most powerfully centralized states in modern history. But that summer everything changed. Mao Zedong called for students to attack intellectuals and officials who allegedly lacked commitment to revolutionary principles. Rebels responded by toppling local governments across the country, ushering in nearly two years of conflict that in places came close to civil war and resulted in nearly 1.6 million dead.
How and why did the party state collapse so rapidly? Standard accounts depict a revolution instigated from the top down and escalated from the bottom up. In this pathbreaking reconsideration of the origins and trajectory of the Cultural Revolution, Andrew Walder offers a startling new conclusion: party cadres seized power from their superiors, setting off a chain reaction of violence, intensified by a mishandled army intervention. This inside-out dynamic explains how virulent factions formed, why the conflict escalated, and why the repression that ended the disorder was so much worse than the violence it was meant to contain.
Based on over 2,000 local annals chronicling some 34,000 revolutionary episodes across China, Agents of Disorder offers an original interpretation of familiar but complex events and suggests a broader lesson for our times: forces of order that we count on to stanch violence can instead generate devastating bloodshed.
Andrew G. Walder is Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. His previous books include Fractured Rebellion, which won the Barrington Moore Book Award, and China Under Mao (both from Harvard). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim fellow, Walder has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Science, and the Ford Foundation.
整合了作者近年的一些工作,关于factional formation and crystallization after power seizure的部分呼应Fractured Rebellion,强调政治选择不一定源自先前的、固定的利益,也可以在多行动者互动中随机生成。这个思路跟一些做文化的计算社会学对照可以看到一些更广的理论意义。第一章的理论非常精彩,后面很多内容主要是具体史料。
评分此书极好,富有洞见。挑战了解释WG起因发展的几个广为接受的理论,如interest group只是事后归因,派系立场是随环境不断即时变化的;是cadre rebels而不是popular mobilization导致WG的极速发展……全书围绕4个相关的中心puzzle展开,就起因、发展、派系分裂、暴力程度等均提供相当有说服力的新解,其结论和方法多有可观之处。
评分整合了作者近年的一些工作,关于factional formation and crystallization after power seizure的部分呼应Fractured Rebellion,强调政治选择不一定源自先前的、固定的利益,也可以在多行动者互动中随机生成。这个思路跟一些做文化的计算社会学对照可以看到一些更广的理论意义。第一章的理论非常精彩,后面很多内容主要是具体史料。
评分此书极好,富有洞见。挑战了解释WG起因发展的几个广为接受的理论,如interest group只是事后归因,派系立场是随环境不断即时变化的;是cadre rebels而不是popular mobilization导致WG的极速发展……全书围绕4个相关的中心puzzle展开,就起因、发展、派系分裂、暴力程度等均提供相当有说服力的新解,其结论和方法多有可观之处。
评分此书极好,富有洞见。挑战了解释WG起因发展的几个广为接受的理论,如interest group只是事后归因,派系立场是随环境不断即时变化的;是cadre rebels而不是popular mobilization导致WG的极速发展……全书围绕4个相关的中心puzzle展开,就起因、发展、派系分裂、暴力程度等均提供相当有说服力的新解,其结论和方法多有可观之处。
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Agents of Disorder pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024