The Central Politics School and Local Governance in Nationalist China
Toward a Statecraft beyond Science
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2969-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2969-0 (ISBN)
This book provides a political history of China’s Nationalist government through officials trained at the Central Politics School. The author examines how these officials engaged in such matters as land administrative reform, the challenges of statebuilding during World War II, and rebellions among ethnic minorities.
This book is a political history of global attempts to reduce politics to science and the results of such an attempt in modern China. The book follows the discourses and activities of a special group of local officials in China’s Nationalist government (1928–1949). These officials had been students or faculty at the Central Politics School (CPS), the only national university in modern Chinese history that trained professional bureaucrats according to the blueprint of the United States’ science of public administration conceived by Frank Goodnow. Through its accounts of how these officials handled land administrative reforms, the battlefront of statebuilding during World War II, and rebellions of ethnic minorities, the book discusses why some of the most talented CPS officials resorted to non-modern humanistic political techniques and achieved a Chinese statecraft more efficient and sustainable than science. As such, the book invites readers to think whether science and the rational-legal authority proposed by Woodrow Wilson and Max Weber, is a proper conceptual framework for understanding politics in China and the rest of world.
This book is a political history of global attempts to reduce politics to science and the results of such an attempt in modern China. The book follows the discourses and activities of a special group of local officials in China’s Nationalist government (1928–1949). These officials had been students or faculty at the Central Politics School (CPS), the only national university in modern Chinese history that trained professional bureaucrats according to the blueprint of the United States’ science of public administration conceived by Frank Goodnow. Through its accounts of how these officials handled land administrative reforms, the battlefront of statebuilding during World War II, and rebellions of ethnic minorities, the book discusses why some of the most talented CPS officials resorted to non-modern humanistic political techniques and achieved a Chinese statecraft more efficient and sustainable than science. As such, the book invites readers to think whether science and the rational-legal authority proposed by Woodrow Wilson and Max Weber, is a proper conceptual framework for understanding politics in China and the rest of world.
Chen-cheng Wang is assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History Archives, Academia Sinica.
Part I: Early Development
Chapter 1: The Advent of Public Administration in the United States and China
Chapter 2: The Orthodox Approach and the Jiangning Experiment
Chapter 3: The Lanxi Experimental County and Its Unorthodox Practices
Part II: The Battlefront Administrative State
Chapter 4: The Rationality Project Based on Irrationality
Chapter 5: The Beauty of Humanistic Politics
Part III: The Frontier of Modern Chinese Statecraft
Chapter 6: Guizhou: The Promised Land for Public Administration?
Chapter 7: Eliminating the Brutal and Safeguarding the Good
Chapter 8: The Counter-Public Administration Insurgency
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.01.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 662 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-2969-7 / 1666929697 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-2969-0 / 9781666929690 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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