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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA006045/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Theatres of land reform Performance and State Building in Su'nan and Taiwan, 1950-53
- Creator:
- Strauss, Julia C.
- Affiliation:
- SOAS University of London -- Centre of Taiwan Studies
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publisher:
- SOAS University of London
- Publication Date:
- 2014
Notes
- Abstract:
- Most of the received wisdom on land reform in China and Taiwan postulates that it was economically necessary, socially desirable, and demanded from below. Rather than evaluating land reform in these terms, this lecture conceives of land reform initiatives as campaigns that were both performative in seeking to inculcate rural populations into a new set of state norms and directly instrumental in clearing the ground of extant social elites that could block regime ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical Information: Julia C. Strauss is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Politics at SOAS, University of London. Her key focusses on the evolution and transformation of the 20th century Chinese state, and she served as Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002-2011.
- General Note:
- Recorded on 16 Octover 2014 at an event hosted by SOAS University of London
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Strauss, Julia C. : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/29842213
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- SOAS University of London
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
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