Engineering Stability
While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a postcrisis state to respond to updated concepts, new circumstance...
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2024
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| description | While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a postcrisis state to respond to updated concepts, new circumstances, changed social demands, and a realigned elite consensus. In Engineering Stability, Yan Xiaojun examines the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to reassert control and restore order on university campuses in the post-Tiananmen era. Since prominent national universities serve the nation-state as training grounds for the country’s future political, economic, and cultural elites, public life on university campuses has immediate political relevance.
Drawing on rich materials gathered from in-depth field research in China during the Xi Jinping era, Engineering Stability invites scholars of comparative politics, state theory, contentious politics, and political development to rethink and reimagine how what Yan calls “a compromised autocratic state” is rebuilt within and from itself after overcoming a traumatic moment of vulnerability. The book further details the four types of infrastructure — institutional, significative, regulatory, and incentivizing — that state rebuilders need to overhaul, and looks into the campaign of state rebuilding in post-Tiananmen Chinese universities and its implications for our understanding of politics in general. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1479562025-07-21T15:45:05Z Engineering Stability Yan, Xiaojun reinvention, state founding, institutional infrastructure, regulatory infrastructure, incentivising infrastructure, surveillance, Tiananmen Square, post-Tiananmen, China, university campus, Chinese universities, student population, China Studies, Tiananmen Movement, Cultural Revolution, visible state, invisible state, Mao Zedong, White Paper Revolution, Qiu Qingfeng Incident thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a postcrisis state to respond to updated concepts, new circumstances, changed social demands, and a realigned elite consensus. In Engineering Stability, Yan Xiaojun examines the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to reassert control and restore order on university campuses in the post-Tiananmen era. Since prominent national universities serve the nation-state as training grounds for the country’s future political, economic, and cultural elites, public life on university campuses has immediate political relevance. Drawing on rich materials gathered from in-depth field research in China during the Xi Jinping era, Engineering Stability invites scholars of comparative politics, state theory, contentious politics, and political development to rethink and reimagine how what Yan calls “a compromised autocratic state” is rebuilt within and from itself after overcoming a traumatic moment of vulnerability. The book further details the four types of infrastructure — institutional, significative, regulatory, and incentivizing — that state rebuilders need to overhaul, and looks into the campaign of state rebuilding in post-Tiananmen Chinese universities and its implications for our understanding of politics in general. 2024-11-19T04:02:31Z 2024-11-19T04:02:31Z 2024-11-18T14:06:45Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94741 9780472077052 9780472057054 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147956 eng China Understandings Today open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94741/1/9780472904679.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94741/1/9780472904679.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14364295 10.3998/mpub.14364295 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472077052 9780472057054 239 open access |
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