{"product_id":"policing-chinese-politics-9780822334897","title":"Policing Chinese Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a history of policing in China, as well as a political history of \"the nation\" in the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eric Hobsbawm, with some irony and much love for the history profession, once remarked that ‘theoreticians of all kinds circle around the peaceful herds of historians as they graze on their rich pastures of primary sources.’ He endorsed the encircling of those pastures. Michael Dutton is one of those social science theoreticians who graze on the same rich fields, but at the same time he takes Asian studies and history into new and fascinating areas.”—Børge Bakken, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Michael Dutton’s \u003ci\u003ePolicing Chinese Politics \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of deeply committed political scholarship. It will be of great interest to scholars of Chinese politics and to historians and critics of the socialist movement.”—Piers Beirne, Department of Criminology, University of Southern Maine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Theoretical Explanation 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Friends and Enemies: The War Within 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Class to Nation: Limiting the Excess in Yan’an 71\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Government of Struggle: Institutions of the Binary 133\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Years That Burned 197\u003cbr\u003e 5. The End of the (Mass) Line? Chinese Politics in the Era of the Contract 247\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Reflections 301\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 317\u003cbr\u003e Notes 331\u003cbr\u003e References 375\u003cbr\u003e Index 395","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406037688663,"sku":"9780822334897","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822334897.jpg?v=1730494328","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/policing-chinese-politics-9780822334897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}