Shaken Authority (eBook)

China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake

Christian P. Sorace (Autor)

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2017
248 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-0849-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. Sorace argues that the Communist Party has never abandoned its conviction that discourse can shape the world and the people who inhabit it. Sorace also demonstrates how the Communist Party's planning apparatus continues to play a crucial role in engineering China's economy and market construction, especially in the countryside. Sorace takes a distinctive and original interpretive approach to understanding Chinese politics, and Shaken Authority demonstrates how Communist Party discourse and ideology influenced the official decisions and responses to the Sichuan earthquake. Sorace provides a clear view of the lived outcomes of Communist Party plans, rationalities, and discourses in the earthquake zone. The three case studies he presents each demonstrate a different type of reconstruction and model of development: urban-rural integration, tourism, and ecological civilization. Sorace's work emphasizes the need for a grounded literacy in the political concepts, discourses, and vocabularies of the Communist Party itself. To dismiss China's official discourse as empty propaganda, Sorace argues, makes China and Chinese realities harder to understand, not easier.

Autor

Christian P. Sorace is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre on China in the World.

Inhalt

Introduction1. The Communist Party's Miracle2. Party Spirit Made Flesh3. Blood Transfusion, Generation, and Anemia4. The Utopia of Urban Planning5. The Mirage of Development6. The Ideological Pursuit of EcologyConclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2017
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: China, Sichuan earthquake, Communist Party, natural disaster, disaster response, disaster politics, contemporary Chinese politics, policymaking, political authority, political agenda, Chinese politics, Maoism, intellectual heritage of Maoism
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-0849-X / 150170849X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-0849-7 / 9781501708497