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The Making of the Modern Chinese State

1600–1950

By: Huaiyin Li

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The Making of the Modern Chinese State

1600–1950

By: Huaiyin Li

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding the rise of modern China. This book explores the question of why today’s China is unlike any other nation-state in size and structure. It inquires into the reasons behind the striking continuity in China's territorial and ethnic compositions over the past centuries, and explicates the genesis and tenacity of the Chinese state as a highly centralized and unified regime that has been able to survive into the twenty-first century. Its analysis centres on three key variables, namely geopolitical strategy, fiscal constitution, and identity building, and it demonstrates how they worked together to shape the outcome of state transformation in modern China. Enhanced by a selection of informative tables and illustrations, The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 is ideal for undergraduates and graduates studying East Asian history, Chinese history, empires in Asia, and state formation.

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0429777892

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The Making of the Modern Chinese State

1600–1950

By: Huaiyin Li

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1600–1950

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The Master in Bondage

Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

By: Huaiyin Li

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The Master in Bondage

Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

By: Huaiyin Li

Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provides a bottom-up examination of working class participation in factory life during socialist and reform-era China. Huaiyin Li offers a series of new interpretations that challenge, revise, and enrich the existing scholarship on factory politics and worker performance during the Maoist years, including the nature of the Maoist state as seen in the operation of power relations on the shop floor, as well as the origins and dynamics of industrial enterprise reforms in the post-Mao era. In sharp contrast with the ideologically driven goal of promoting grassroots democracy or manifesting workers' status as the masters of the workplace, Li argues that Maoist era state-owned enterprises operated effectively to turn factory workers into a well-disciplined labor force through a complex set of formal and informal institutions that functioned to generate an equilibrium in power relations and work norms. The enterprise reforms of the 1980s and 1990s undermined this preexisting equilibrium, catalyzing the transformation of the industrial workforce from predominantly privileged workers in state-owned enterprises to precarious migrant workers of rural origins hired by private firms. Ultimately, this comprehensive and textured history provides an analytically astute new picture of everyday factory life in the world's largest manufacturing powerhouse.

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Stanford University Press

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1503635295

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Reinventing Modern China

Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

By: Huaiyin Li

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Reinventing Modern China

Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

By: Huaiyin Li

This work offers the first systematic analysis of writings on modern Chinese history by historians in China from the early twentieth century to the present. It traces the construction of major interpretive schemes, the evolution of dominant historical narratives, and the unfolding of debates on the most controversial issues in different periods. Placing history-writing in the context of political rivalry and ideological contestation, Huaiyin Li explicates how the historians’ dedication to faithfully reconstructing the past was compromised by their commitment to an imagined trajectory of history that fit their present-day agenda and served their needs of political legitimation. Beginning with an examination of the contrasting narratives of revolution and modernization in the Republican period, the book scrutinizes changes in the revolutionary historiography after 1949, including its disciplinization in the 1950s and early 1960s and radicalization in the rest of the Mao era. It further investigates the rise of the modernization paradigm in the reform era, the crises of master narratives since the late 1990s, and the latest development of the field. Central to the author’s analysis is the issue of truth and falsehood in historical representation. Li contends that both the revolutionary and modernization historiographies before 1949 reflected historians’ lived experiences and contained a degree of authenticity in mirroring the historical processes of their own times. In sharp contrast, both the revolutionary historiography of the Maoist era and the modernization historiography of the reform era were primarily products of historians’ ideological commitment, which distorted and concealed the past no less than revealed it. In search of a more effective approach to rewriting modern Chinese history, Reinventing Modern China proposes a within-time, open-ended perspective, which allows for different directions in interpreting the events in modern China and views modern Chinese history as an unfinished process remaining to be defined as the country entered the twenty-first century.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824837266

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Village China Under Socialism and Reform

A Micro-History, 1948-2008

By: Huaiyin Li

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Village China Under Socialism and Reform

A Micro-History, 1948-2008

By: Huaiyin Li

Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community. Li's rich examination draws on original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and his own fieldwork in Qin village of Jiangsu province to highlight the continuities in rural transformation. Firmly disagreeing with those who claim that recent developments in rural China represent a radical break with pre-reform sociopolitical practices and patterns of production, Li instead draws a clear history connecting the current situation to ecological, social, and institutional changes that have persisted from the collective era.

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Stanford University Press

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0804771073

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Village Governance in North China

1875-1936

By: Huaiyin Li

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Village Governance in North China

1875-1936

By: Huaiyin Li

This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author's interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.

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0804767556

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The Master in Bondage

Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

By: Huaiyin Li

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Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

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Village Governance in North China

1875-1936

By: Huaiyin Li

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1875-1936

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Reinventing Modern China

Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

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Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

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Village China Under Socialism and Reform

A Micro-History, 1948-2008

By: Huaiyin Li

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Village China Under Socialism and Reform

A Micro-History, 1948-2008

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Book's by Huaiyin Li

The Making of the Modern Chinese State

The Making of the Modern Chinese State

The Making of the Modern Chinese State

The Making of the Modern Chinese State

The Master in Bondage

The Master in Bondage

Reinventing Modern China

Reinventing Modern China

Village China Under Socialism and Reform

Village China Under Socialism and Reform

Village Governance in North China

Village Governance in North China

The Master in Bondage

The Master in Bondage

Village Governance in North China

Village Governance in North China

Reinventing Modern China

Reinventing Modern China

Village China Under Socialism and Reform

Village China Under Socialism and Reform

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