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Book SynopsisCo-winner of the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in Comparative Politics of the Canadian Political Science AssociationThe Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social tiesspecifically family tiesplayed in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Central to these ties, Kimberley Ens Manning finds, were women as both the subjects and leaders of reform. Drawing on interviews with 163 participants in the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu, as well as government documents and elite memoirs, biographies, speeches, and reports, Manning offers a new theoretical lensattachment politicsto underscore how family and ideology intertwined to create an important building block of state capacity and governance. As The Party Family details, infant mortality in China dropped by more than half within a decade of the PRC's foundation, a policy ach
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Family Ties as Political Attachments
States of Activism
1. The May Fourth Movement
2. The Chongqing Coalition
3. The Long March to Yan'an
4. Land Reform
State Capacity adn Contention
5. Maternal Bodies
6. Filial Brides
7. Household Managers
8. Shock Troops
9. Leaders
Conclusion: The Attached Politics of State Capacityand Contention
