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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.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	09 mai 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501708503
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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SHAKEN AUTHORITY

SHAKEN AUTHORITY China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake

CHRisTiaN P. SORacE

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges support from the First Book Subvention Program of the Association for Asian Studies and receipt of a Subsidy for Publication grant from the Chiang Chingkuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA), both of which aided in the publication of this book.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2017 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Sorace, Christian P., 1981–author. Title: Shaken authority : China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake / Christian P. Sorace. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2016048273 (print) | LCCN 2016049201 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501707537 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501708497 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501708503 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Earthquake relief—China—Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng) | Emergency management—China—Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng) | Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008. | Zhongguo gong chan dang. Classiﬁcation: LCC HV600 2008.W46 S67 2017 (print) | LCC HV600 2008.W46 (ebook) | DDC 363.34/958095138—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048273

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Photographs are by the author.

Cover illustration: Detail from Bingyi,Apocalypse,2011–2015, ink on silk, 2600×90 cm. Used by permission of the artist.

To my parents, Phillip and Faustina

Contents

Acknowledgments Maps

Introduction 1. The Communist Party’s Miracle 2. Party Spirit Made Flesh 3. Blood Transfusion, Generation, and Anemia 4. The Utopia of Urban Planning: Dujiangyan Municipality 5. The Mirage of Development: Yingxiu Township 6. The Ideological Pursuit of Ecology: Qingchuan County Conclusion

Notes Glossary of Terms and Phrases Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments

In writing this book, I have accumulated many intellectual debts, only a few of which I can mention here. I must begin by thanking William Hurst, who has played several signiﬁcant roles in my life as teacher, adviser, coauthor, intellectual companion, and friend. Since I met him several years ago at a conference, Andy Mertha has been a constant source of intellectual generosity, inspiration, and encouragement. I am grateful to Geremie R. Barmé for the refreshing candor of his friendship and for the red ink he has donated to various portions of this manuscript. I would also like to thank Geremie for suggesting the title of this book. I am deeply thankful to Gloria Davies for inestimably improving my manuscript with her detailed and thoughtful comments. Many thanks are due to Luigi Tomba for his critical commentary and helpful suggestions on how to revise and sharpen several key concepts and ideas in this book and the project I am working on now. For insightful feedback on earlier versions and chapters of this project as it has evolved over several years, I thank Elizabeth Perry, Catherine Boone, Jon athan Unger, Anita Chan, Jonathan Kinkel, Edwin Schmitt, Jane Golley, and the two anonymous readers for Cornell University Press. Especially deserving of thanks is my editor Roger Haydon for his conﬁdence, guidance, and patience in responding to my anxious email queries. Bingyi also deserves many thanks for generously allowing me to reproduce a section of her breathtaking inkon silk scroll paintingApocalypseas the book cover. I am particularly fortunate to have been supported by wonderful institutions and networks while researching and writing this book. I thank the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Government, in particular Robert Moser and Tom Pangle for generously funding my preliminary trips to China; the Fulbright Hays Doctoral Research Fellowship for enabling me to have ample time in the ﬁeld; Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences for hosting me and allowing me to follow my hunches; the Universities Service Centre for China Studies at the Chi nese University of Hong Kong for its treasure troves; participants in the 2014 Association for Asian Studies–Social Science Research Council (AASSSRC) Dissertation Workshop “Dispossession, Capital and the State” for their critical feedback on an early version of chapter 4; the Cornell Contemporary China Ini tiative for inviting me to present a lecture that would become the basis of chap ter 2; the Political Science Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for

ACknowledgmentS

the opportunity to be a visiting professor and learn from the process of teaching; ANU College of Asia and the Paciﬁc CartoGIS for the beautiful maps at the front of the book; and my current institutional home, the Australian National Univer sity’s Centre on China in the World (ANUCIW), for the invaluable gifts of time and intellectual nourishment needed to bring this book to fruition. This book includes excerpts from the author’s following articles, reprinted with permission. Chapter 2 is a slightly altered version of my article “Party Spirit Made Flesh: The Production of Legitimacy in the Aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake,” published in theChina Journal. Chapter 3 contains revised sections from “The Communist Party’s Miracle? The Alchemy of Turning PostDisaster Reconstruction into Great Leap Development,” published inComparative Politics. I thank the mentors, friends, interlocutors, and comrades who have inﬂuenced my life over the years, including but not limited to Eric Santner, Lauren Berlant, Erik Vogt, Drew Hyland, George Higgins, the late Kenneth LloydJones, Jodi Dean, Stacey Philbrick Yadav, David Ost, Joseph Mink, Stefanie Fishel, Benjamin Farrer, Kamran Ali, Benjamin Gregg, Patricia Maclachlan, Henry Dietz, Wendy Hunter, Paula Newberg, Fiona Jenkins, Haun Saussy, Mark Frazier, Kjeld Erik Brøds gaard, Bin Xu, Jean Hong, Guo Hong, Zhang Xiangrong, Li Yongdong, Guan Kai, Peng Dapeng, Todd Altschul, Mark Gutzmer, Ceschi Ramos, Caleb Ford, Joshua Mandell, Nicholas Loubere, Ying Qian, Olivier Krischer, Ivan Franceschini, Maria Repnikova, MarieÈve Reny, Suzanne Scoggins, John Wagner Givens, James Joshua Hudson, Regina Goodnow, Peter Mohanty, and Elise Giuliano. I am forever grateful to my parents for instilling in me a love for books and learning that made me the masochistic academic I am today. They are the pillars of my faith that there is kindness in the world. Finally, I would like to thank my source of light and happiness, ILing Liu. Our life together is what keeps my world vibrant, dreamlike, and hopeful.