Author: Shue, Vivienne
Title: The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, ix, 175 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: State, Society & Politics Under Mao: Theory & Irony in the Study of Contemporary China; Peasant Localism & the Chinese State: A Center- Periphery Approach to the Evolution of State Socialism Under Mao; The reach of the State: A Comparative-Historical Approach to the " Modernization" of Local Government in China; Honeycomb & Web: The Process of Change in Rural China.

Keywords: Chinese Communist State, China, Communism, Political History, Politics, Local Government, Socialism Socialist, Rural Society, East Asia Peasants