ISBN:
9780472904679
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
China understandings today
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Yan, Xiaojun Engineering stability
DDC:
378.51
Keywords:
Zhongguo gong chan dang
;
Higher education and state
;
Universities and colleges Political aspects
;
Education, Higher Political aspects
;
Education and state 21st century
;
Universities and colleges Political aspects 21st century
;
Education, Higher Political aspects 21st century
;
Éducation - Politique gouvernementale - Chine - 21e siècle
;
Universités - Aspect politique - Chine - 21e siècle
;
Enseignement supérieur - Aspect politique - Chine - 21e siècle
;
Enseignement supérieur - Politique gouvernementale - Chine
;
Universités - Aspect politique - Chine
;
Enseignement supérieur - Aspect politique - Chine
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
;
China Politics and government 21st century
;
Chine - Politique et gouvernement - 21e siècle
Abstract:
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 post-crisis 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: The Compromised State and Its Reinvention -- Two: Concentric Circles- The Institutional Infrastructure -- Three: A Torrent of Encounters- The Significative Infrastructure -- Four: Shaping Public Life- The Regulatory Infrastructure -- Five: Nurturing Compliance- The Incentivization Infrastructure -- Six: At the Perilous Moment- Critical and Sensitive Periods -- Seven: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index
