China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy (eBook)

Reforming the Communist Party through Its Public Servants

Shaoying Zhang, Derek McGhee (Autoren)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
X, 320 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-51496-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects. In the context of the Party's history of the military revolution, Cultural Revolution and Economic Reform (or economic revolution), the authors argue that under President Xi Jinping the Party has launched an ethical revolution within the Party for the sake of sustaining its legitimacy. This book examines the various combined components of this ethical revolution, including anti-corruption, anti-four undesirable working styles and Mass-Line Education programme from the perspective of the fifty current Communist Party officials. 

Shaoying Zhang is Associate Professor of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and a Shanghai Young Eastern Scholar.

 

Derek McGhee is Professor and Head of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.  

Inhalt

1. Introduction2. The China Dream, History, Religion and Modernization3. Comparisons, Paradigms and the Remnant of Division: Our Approach4. Discourses of Corruption: The Contest between Different Authorities5. State of Exception: The Examination of Anti-Corruption Practices6. The Discourse of Formalism and Bureaucraticism: The Contest of Order within the Party7. Discourse of Hedonism and Extravagance: Tension between the Agency and the Actor8. The Mass Line Education Programme9. Technologies of the Self10. Remnant and Hybridization: The Effects of Governing

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Development of Contemporary China
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Development of Contemporary China
• Zusatzinfo: X, 320 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Anti-Corruption • China • China Dream • communism • Democracy • Economic Reform • ethics • Xi Jinping
• ISBN-10: 3-319-51496-2 / 3319514962
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-51496-3 / 9783319514963