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Books The reach of the state, Peasant China in Transition: The Dynamics of Development Toward Socialism, 1949-1956 Similar People Joel S Migdal, Andrew G Walder, Edward A McCord, Yunxiang Yan, Louis G Putterman | ||
Vivienne shue elvera kwang siam lim memorial lecture 2016
Vivienne Shue, FBA (Chinese: 许慧文; pinyin: Xǔ Huìwén) is Emeritus Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary China Studies at Oxford University. She specializes in Chinese politics and society, local governance and patterns of state-society interaction. Shue received her B.A. from Vassar College, her B.Litt. from Oxford and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was elected to the British Academy in 2002.
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The Reach of the State
Shue is best known for her book The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1988. The book "changed the field" by arguing that the Chinese government could only be understood in the context of its history, the relations between the centre and the periphery and the continuing role of elites.