Description: Shaken Authority China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquakeby Christian P. Sorace ISBN-13: 9781501707537 ISBN-10: 1501707531 Publisher: Cornell University Press Binding: Hardcover Year: 2017 Edition: First Condition: Missing dust jacket • clean pagesAbout:“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.” mySku 4363
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Book Title: Shaken Authority
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Topic: Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Asia, China, Regional, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Emergency Management, Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng)
Format: Hardcover
Author: Christian P. Sorace
Publication Year: 2017
Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Genre: History, Environment, Nature & Earth, Political Science, Social Science, Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1501707531
Shipping Weight: Under 2 Pounds
