03800nam 2200601 450 991059115900332120220418011758.09780472903597(electronic bk.)978047207549210.3998/mpub.10131159(MiAaPQ)EBC7076091(Au-PeEL)EBL7076091(OCoLC)1311281546(CKB)24778985000041(NjHacI)9924778985000041(MiU)10.3998/mpub.10131159(PPN)264383850(EXLCZ)992477898500004120220418h20222022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRighteous revolutionaries morality, mobilization, and violence in the making of the Chinese state /Jeffrey A. JavedAnn Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,2022.©20221 online resource (313 pages)China understandings todayPrint version: Javed, Jeffrey A. Righteous Revolutionaries Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,c2022 9780472075492 Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index.Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality--shared understandings of right and wrong--to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats to their authority. Jeffrey A. Javed examines the Chinese Communist Party's mass mobilization of violence during its land reform campaign in the early 1950s, one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history. Using an array of novel archival, documentary, and quantitative historical data, this book illustrates that China's land reform campaign was not just about economic redistribution but rather part of a larger, brutally violent state-building effort to delegitimize the new party-state's internal rivals and establish its moral authority. Righteous Revolutionaries argues that the Chinese Party-state simultaneously removed perceived threats to its authority at the grassroots and bolstered its legitimacy through a process called moral mobilization. This mobilization process created a moral boundary that designated a virtuous ingroup of "the masses" and a demonized outgroup of "class enemies," mobilized the masses to participate in violence against this broadly defined outgroup, and strengthened this symbolic boundary by making the masses complicit in state violence. Righteous Revolutionaries shows how we can find traces of moral mobilization in China today under Xi Jinping's rule. In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment intergroup conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of violent mobilization and state authority are more relevant than ever before.China understandings today.Political socializationChinaHistory20th centuryLand reformChinaHistory20th centuryMoral educationChinaHistoryIntergroup relationsChinaHistory20th centuryDominant-party systemsPsychological aspectsChinaPolitics and government1949-ChinafastHistory.fastPolitical socializationHistoryLand reformHistoryMoral educationHistory.Intergroup relationsHistoryDominant-party systemsPsychological aspects.951.05Javed Jeffrey A1255579EYMEYM9910591159003321Righteous Revolutionaries2911058UNINA