Chen-Cheng Wang

Central Politics School and Local Governance in Nationalist China

Toward a Statecraft beyond Science

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a political history of China's Nationalist government through officials trained at the Central Politics School. The author examines how these officials engaged in such matters as land administrative reform, the challenges of statebuilding during World War II, and rebellions among ethnic minorities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9781666929690
• ISBN-10: 1666929697
• Artikelnr.: 65695537

Autorenporträt

Chen-cheng Wang is assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Early Development
Chapter 1: The Advent of Public Administration in the United States and
China
Chapter 2: The Orthodox Approach and the Jiangning Experiment
Chapter 3: The Lanxi Experimental County and Its Unorthodox Practices
Part II: The Battlefront Administrative State
Chapter 4: The Rationality Project Based on Irrationality
Chapter 5: The Beauty of Humanistic Politics
Part III: The Frontier of Modern Chinese Statecraft
Chapter 6: Guizhou: The Promised Land for Public Administration?
Chapter 7: Eliminating the Brutal and Safeguarding the Good
Chapter 8: The Counter-Public Administration Insurgency