Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras

by Elizabeth Remick

This book examines two eras of Chinese history that have commonly been viewed as periods of state disintegration or retreat. And they were--at the central level. When re-examined at the local level, however, both are revealed as periods of state building. In both the Nanjing decade of Guomindang rule (1927-1937) and the early post-Mao reform era (1980-1992), both national and local factors shaped local state building and created variations in local...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013980
• ISBN13: 9780674013988
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"