Shaken authority : China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake /
Sorace, Christian P., 1981-
Shaken authority : China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake / Christian P. Sorace. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Communist Party's miracle -- Party spirit made flesh -- Blood transfusion, generation, and anemia -- The utopia of urban planning -- The mirage of development -- The ideological pursuit of ecology.
In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. Sorace argues that the Communist Party has never abandoned its conviction that discourse can shape the world and the people who inhabit it. Sorace also demonstrates how the Communist Party's planning apparatus continues to play a crucial role in engineering China's economy and market construction, especially in the countryside. Sorace takes a distinctive and original interpretive approach to understanding Chinese politics, and Shaken Authority demonstrates how Communist Party discourse and ideology influenced the official decisions and responses to the Sichuan earthquake. Sorace provides a clear view of the lived outcomes of Communist Party plans, rationalities, and discourses in the earthquake zone. The three case studies he presents each demonstrate a different type of reconstruction and model of development: urban-rural integration, tourism, and ecological civilization. Sorace's work emphasizes the need for a grounded literacy in the political concepts, discourses, and vocabularies of the Communist Party itself. To dismiss China's official discourse as "empty propaganda," Sorace argues, makes China and Chinese realities harder to understand, not easier.
9781501708497 (epub/mobi) 150170849X 9781501708503 (pdf) 1501708503
22573/ctt1r0gtms JSTOR
2016049201
Zhongguo gong chan dang.
Zhongguo gong chan dang.
2008
Earthquake relief--China--Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
Emergency management--China--Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008.
Secours aux victimes de tremblements de terre--Chine--Wenchuan Xian.
Tremblement de terre de Wenchuan, Chine, 2008.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Economic Policy.
Earthquake relief.
Emergency management.
China.
China--Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV600 2008.W46
363.34/958095138
Shaken authority : China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake / Christian P. Sorace. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Communist Party's miracle -- Party spirit made flesh -- Blood transfusion, generation, and anemia -- The utopia of urban planning -- The mirage of development -- The ideological pursuit of ecology.
In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. Sorace argues that the Communist Party has never abandoned its conviction that discourse can shape the world and the people who inhabit it. Sorace also demonstrates how the Communist Party's planning apparatus continues to play a crucial role in engineering China's economy and market construction, especially in the countryside. Sorace takes a distinctive and original interpretive approach to understanding Chinese politics, and Shaken Authority demonstrates how Communist Party discourse and ideology influenced the official decisions and responses to the Sichuan earthquake. Sorace provides a clear view of the lived outcomes of Communist Party plans, rationalities, and discourses in the earthquake zone. The three case studies he presents each demonstrate a different type of reconstruction and model of development: urban-rural integration, tourism, and ecological civilization. Sorace's work emphasizes the need for a grounded literacy in the political concepts, discourses, and vocabularies of the Communist Party itself. To dismiss China's official discourse as "empty propaganda," Sorace argues, makes China and Chinese realities harder to understand, not easier.
9781501708497 (epub/mobi) 150170849X 9781501708503 (pdf) 1501708503
22573/ctt1r0gtms JSTOR
2016049201
Zhongguo gong chan dang.
Zhongguo gong chan dang.
2008
Earthquake relief--China--Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
Emergency management--China--Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008.
Secours aux victimes de tremblements de terre--Chine--Wenchuan Xian.
Tremblement de terre de Wenchuan, Chine, 2008.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Economic Policy.
Earthquake relief.
Emergency management.
China.
China--Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV600 2008.W46
363.34/958095138