China's Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy

This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects. In the context of the Party's history of the military revolution, Cultural Revolution and Economic Reform (or economic revolution), the authors argue that under President Xi Jinping the Party has launched an ethical revolution within the Party for the sake of sustaining its legitimacy. This book examines the various combined components of this ethical revolution, including anti-corruption, anti-four undesirable working styles and Mass-Line Education programme from the perspective of the fifty current Communist Party officials.

Examines the various components of China's new ethical revolution from the perspectives of insiders Engages in a theoretically, methodologically, and analytically innovative approach to Chinese scholarship Acts as a bridge between Chinese scholars and Western scholars by providing a refreshing new perspective on China's politics to the English-speaking world

Autorentext
Shaoying Zhang is Associate Professor of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and a Shanghai Young Eastern Scholar.
Derek McGhee is Professor and Head of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Inhalt

1. Introduction .- 2. The China Dream, History, Religion and Modernization .- 3. Comparisons, Paradigms and the Remnant of Division: Our Approach .- 4. Discourses of Corruption: The Contest between Different Authorities .- 5. State of Exception: The Examination of Anti-Corruption Practices .- 6. The Discourse of Formalism and Bureaucraticism: The Contest of Order within the Party .- 7. Discourse of Hedonism and Extravagance: Tension between the Agency and the Actor .- 8. The Mass Line Education Programme .- 9. Technologies of the Self .- 10. Remnant and Hybridization: The Effects of Governing.