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Shaken Authority
2017
Overview
InShaken 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, andShaken Authoritydemonstrates 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.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ China
/ contemporary Chinese politics
/ Earthquake relief -- China -- Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
/ Emergency management -- China -- Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
/ History
/ intellectual heritage of Maoism
/ Maoism
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief
/ Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008
ISBN
9781501707537, 1501707531, 9781501708497, 150170849X, 9781501708503, 1501708503
