LEADER 04709nam 22007693u 450 001 9910786415803321 005 20230207220311.0 010 $a0-8223-9762-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822397625 035 $a(CKB)3710000000116829 035 $a(EBL)3007814 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001227917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11738411 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001227917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11280413 035 $a(PQKB)11643625 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007814 035 $a(DE-B1597)554430 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822397625 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161136 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000116829 100 $a20151005d2005|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolicing Chinese Politics$b[electronic resource] $eA History 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (427 p.) 225 1 $aAsia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-3477-1 327 $a""Contents ""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: A Theoretical Explanation""; ""1. Friends and Enemies: The War Within""; ""2. From Class to Nation: Limiting the Excess in Yana???an""; ""3. The Government of Struggle: Institutions of the Binary""; ""4. The Years That Burned""; ""5. The End of the (Mass) Line? : Chinese Policing in the Era of the Contract""; ""Concluding Reflections""; ""Glossary""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index"" 330 $aBeginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores the question of revolutionary violence and the political passion that propels it. ?Who are our enemies, who are our friends, that is a question germane to the revolution,? wrote Mao Zedong in 1926. Michael Dutton shows just how powerful this one line was to become. It would establish the binary division of life in revolutionary China and lead to both passionate commitment and revolutionary excess. The political history of revolutionary China, he argues, is largely framed by the attempts of Mao and the Party to harness these passions.The economic reform period that followed Mao Zedong?s rule contained a hint as to how the magic spell of political faith and commitment could be broken, but the cost of such disenchantment was considerable. This detailed, empirical tale of Chinese socialist policing is, therefore, more than simply a police story. It is a parable that offers a cogent analysis of Chinese politics generally while radically redrafting our understanding of what politics is all about. Breaking away from the traditional elite modes of political analysis that focus on personalities, factions, and betrayals, and from ?rational? accounts of politics and government, Dutton provides a highly original understanding of the far-reaching consequences of acts of faith and commitment in the realm of politics. 410 0$aAsia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society 606 $aChina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 606 $aInternal security -- China -- History -- 20th century 606 $aInterpersonal relations -- China -- History -- 20th century 606 $aPolitical persecution -- China -- History -- 20th century 606 $aInternal security$xHistory$y20th century$zChina 606 $aPolitical persecution$xHistory$y20th century$zChina 606 $aInterpersonal relations$xHistory$y20th century$zChina 606 $aSocial Welfare & Social Work$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aCriminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency$2HILCC 615 4$aChina -- Politics and government -- 20th century. 615 4$aInternal security -- China -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aInterpersonal relations -- China -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aPolitical persecution -- China -- History -- 20th century. 615 0$aInternal security$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical persecution$xHistory 615 0$aInterpersonal relations$xHistory 615 7$aSocial Welfare & Social Work 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aCriminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency 676 $a363.2/3 700 $aDutton$b Michael Robert$0638243 701 $aChow$b Rey$0559761 701 $aHarootunian$b H.D$0636820 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786415803321 996 $aPolicing Chinese Politics$93775294 997 $aUNINA