Thomas Heberer

Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China

The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government's roadmap to modernize China comprehensively by 2049 is the process of social disciplining. This book discusses the Chinese experience of social disciplining and identifies universal tendencies of social disciplining and separates them from particular occurrences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781032404363
• ISBN-10: 1032404361
• Artikelnr.: 69943937

Autorenporträt

Thomas Heberer is Senior Professor of Chinese Politics and Society at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures vi
List of Tables vii
1 Covid-19 Pandemic: Disciplined Societies Facing a Predicament 1
2 Social Disciplining 10
3 Disciplining Concepts in Chinese History: Political
Culture Matters 28
4 State and Society in China 52
5 Disciplining Efforts During Early Modernising in the 19th and 20th
Centuries 73
6 Disciplining Processes Since the Advent of the "Reform and Opening
Policies" (Gaige kaifang) 94
7 The Power of Morality: Disciplining and Civilising Projects - Four Case
Studies 112
8 Retrospective and Lessons Learnt 168
Bibliography 183
Index 217