Engineering Stability: Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities (China Understandings Today) - Softcover

Yan, Xiaojun

 
9780472057054: Engineering Stability: Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities (China Understandings Today)
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ISBN 10: 0472057057 ISBN 13: 9780472057054
Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a postcrisis state to respond to updated concepts, new circumstances, changed social demands, and a realigned elite consensus. In Engineering Stability, Yan Xiaojun examines the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to reassert control and restore order on university campuses in the post-Tiananmen era. Since prominent national universities serve the nation-state as training grounds for the country’s future political, economic, and cultural elites, public life on university campuses has immediate political relevance.

Drawing on rich materials gathered from in-depth field research in China during the Xi Jinping era, Engineering Stability invites scholars of comparative politics, state theory, contentious politics, and political development to rethink and reimagine how what Yan calls “a compromised autocratic state” is rebuilt within and from itself after overcoming a traumatic moment of vulnerability. The book further details the four types of infrastructure ― institutional, significative, regulatory, and incentivizing ― that state rebuilders need to overhaul, and looks into the campaign of state rebuilding in post-Tiananmen Chinese universities and its implications for our understanding of politics in general.

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Yan Xiaojun is Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong.

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Verlag
The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472057057
ISBN 13 
9780472057054
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Anzahl der Seiten
238
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