State Formation in China and Taiwan

Autorentext

Julia C. Strauss is Professor of Chinese Politics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where she served as Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002 to 2011. Her work focuses on the twentieht-century Chinese state in China and Taiwan, the performative dimensions of politics, and China's 'Going Out' to the developing world, particularly towards Africa, and has published widely on these topics.

Zusammenfassung
This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory on mainland China in 1949. Strauss sheds new light on twentieth-century political change and state formation in East Asia.

Inhalt

Introduction. Modalities of state building and institution building: bureaucracies, campaigns, and performance; 1. Virtue and talent in making Chinese states: heroes and technocrats in Sunan and Taiwan, 194954; 2. Comparative terror in regime consolidation: Sunan and Taiwan, 194954; 3. Performing terror: lenience, legality, and the dramaturgy of the consolidating state; 4. Repertoires of land reform campaigns in Sunan and Taiwan, 195054; 5. Theatres of land reform: bureaucracy, campaign, and the show, 195054; Conclusion; Appendix: list of interviewees; Documentary collections, reports, and periodicals.