Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
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Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake

Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake

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Christian P. Sorace (Author)  

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In Shaken 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, and Shaken Authority demonstrates 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. 7 Halftones, black and white CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Christian P. Sorace is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre on China in the World.
  • Contributor: Christian P. Sorace
  • Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781501707537
  • Number of Pages: 248
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x22mm
  • Packaged Weight: 907
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Release Date: 2017-05-09
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Christian P. Sorace is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre on China in the World.

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