Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China : The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics (Paperback)

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