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  title info:
    title: Righteous revolutionaries
    sub title: morality, mobilization, and violence in the making of the Chinese state
  name:
    name part: Javed, Jeffrey Arshad
    name part: 1986-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts.
  abstract: Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality--shared understandings of right and wrong--to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats to their authority. Jeffrey A. Javed examines the Chinese Communist Party's mass mobilization of violence during its land reform campaign in the early 1950s, one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history. Using an array of novel archival, documentary, and quantitative historical data, this book illustrates that China's land reform campaign was not just about economic redistribution but rather part of a larger, brutally violent state-building effort to delegitimize the new party-state's internal rivals and establish its moral authority. Righteous Revolutionaries argues that the Chinese Party-state simultaneously removed perceived threats to its authority at the grassroots and bolstered its legitimacy through a process called moral mobilization. This mobilization process created a moral boundary that designated a virtuous ingroup of "the masses" and a demonized outgroup of "class enemies," mobilized the masses to participate in violence against this broadly defined outgroup, and strengthened this symbolic boundary by making the masses complicit in state violence. Righteous Revolutionaries shows how we can find traces of moral mobilization in China today under Xi Jinping's rule. In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment intergroup conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of violent mobilization and state authority are more relevant than ever before.
  note: Jeffrey A. Javed.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Political socialization
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Land reform
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Moral education
    geographic: China
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Intergroup relations
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Dominant-party systems
    topic: Psychological aspects
  classification: HD926
  related item:
    title info:
      title: China understandings today
  related item:
    title info:
      title: China understandings today
  identifier: 9780472220458
  identifier: 0472220454
  identifier: 9780472075492
  identifier: 9780472055494
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10131159
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 220418
    record change date: 20221129013934.2
    record identifier: in00004604673
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng