1st Edition
Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics
List of Figures vi
List of Tables vii
1 Covid-19 Pandemic: Disciplined Societies Facing a Predicament 1
2 Social Disciplining 10
3 Disciplining Concepts in Chinese History: Political
Culture Matters 28
4 State and Society in China 52
5 Disciplining Efforts During Early Modernising in the 19th and 20th Centuries 73
6 Disciplining Processes Since the Advent of the “Reform and Opening Policies” (Gaige kaifang) 94
7 The Power of Morality: Disciplining and Civilising Projects – Four Case Studies 112
8 Retrospective and Lessons Learnt 168
Bibliography 183
Index 217
Biography
Thomas Heberer is Senior Professor of Chinese Politics and Society at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
"Heberer’s volume is comprehensive and synthetic, and of particular interest to those working on state–society relations, the “civilizing process” in China and issues around the social credit system."
Patricia Thornton, University of Oxford, UK
