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Disciplining the state virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China

Patricia M. Thornton (Author)
Introduction -- Virtue and venality in the Qing -- Localist critiques of corruption and virtue -- Political corruption and the nationalist state -- Local communities and political corruption during the Nanjing decade -- Political corruption and the Maoist state -- Local variations in the "big four cleans" -- Conclusion : the moral language of state-making

Print Book, English, 2007
Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2007