Vivienne Shue
Biographic Data
| ID | 735707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivienne Shue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Shue |
| SIGNATURE | SHUE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1520-6768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule
This analysis aims to place certain key elements of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule observed under Xi Jinping today into longer and fuller historical perspective. It highlights trademark CCP practices of ordering space, marking time, potent political messaging, and vigorous propaganda diffusion as these have evolved over many years up to the present, reconsidering these in light of early Chinese cosmological thought and later symbolic practice…
Party-state, nation, empire: Rethinking the grammar of Chinese Governance
Western political scientists, regarding China as a nation-state like any other, commonly classify it as a 'party-state' and as 'authoritarian'. Yet China's transition to modern statehood differed from that of almost every other postimperial or 'new' nation on the planet. Drawing on new scholarship in the history of empire and of modern China, this essay reflects on certain repercussions of the Sinic world's singular experience of empire, imperial…
The Political Economy of Compassion: China's ‘charity supermarket’ saga
With a focus on Tianjin, this article examines the recent widespread establishment of 'charity supermarkets' in China's cities. Inspired by the example of certain 'thrift shops' in the US, charity supermarkets were set up for the purpose of assisting the urban poor. Several contrasting contemporary discourses within China concerning poverty, charity, business, and the proper roles of the market, state, and community in the delivery of social welf…
Sovereignty, Rule of Law, and Ideologies of the Nation
Rule as Repertory and the Compound Essence of Authority
These brief comments reflect on several of the interrelated themes that are raised in the various articles featured in this issue, including (1) their acknowledgement of the synthetic, always-plural techniques of rule that, both historically and today, are available for deployment within the Chinese political system at any one time; (2) that powerfully informing and often-recurring ideal of governance in China that privileges a seamless blending …
The Quality of Mercy: Confucian Charity and the Mixed Metaphors of Modernity in Tianjin
Based on archival research, this study traces the development of the Guangren Tang—Tianjin’s largest benevolent Hall, established to house and support chaste widows and orphans—and its relationship to changing national and local governmental authorities over the fifty years from 1878 to 1928. It gives a detailed account of the rules governing the everyday lives of the Hall’s inmates and chronicles changes in how these charity recipients were rega…
Mutual Empowerment of State and Society: Its Nature, Conditions, Mechanisms, and Limits
Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County
This is the first systematic, longitudinal study of the organisation and operations of Chinese government at the county level. Highlighting the contention-prone yet often collaborative relationships between county officials and the production units and administration above and below them, the authors open a window on the Chinese state and statecraft in the vast bureaucratic middle ground between Beijing policymaking and community-level politics. …
State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World
State power and social organization in China
PROLOGUE There is an odor of righteous vindication in the air. Communism is in disarray around the world. Little wonder then if some influential voices emanating from the capitalist camp have been heard now claiming not just the missile victory and the moral victory, but the economic and the philosophic victories as well. The unmistakable turning point, both in Europe and in China, came in 1989, amid a staggering series of unlooked-for events at …
State power and social forces: On political contention and accommodation in the Third World
A STATE-IN-SOCIETY APPROACH The recent renewal of intellectual interest in the state has made a number of salutary collateral contributions to the field of comparative politics. One of these has been to provoke a certain rejuvenation of the comparative study of politics and society in the low-income countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Moving beyond the lamentable dialogue of the deaf to which the debates between both modernization and d…
State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World
This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality, country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of 'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states, …
The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic
These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they explore two major themes from different historical and theoretical points of departure. First, the author argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved.…
The Reach of State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic
The Long Bow Film Trilogy—A Review Article
These three excellent documentaries have received both high honors from the film world and an appreciative welcome from Asia scholars eager to make use of them in the classroom. Students and non-China specialists seeing them for the first time generally praise them for “humanizing” life in rural China, for providing an “intimate” look at “real” Chinese people as they are but rarely glimpsed in the West. When students have first been primed with r…
The New Course in Chinese Agriculture
China's current reform program in agriculture is enormously ambitious in intent and highly significant for all aspects of future economic and political development. It represents a rejection of past policies of large-scale labor mobilization and communal self-reliance in favor of commercialization and individual incentives for peasants. Diversification of the rural economy, decentralization of farm management, production specialization, crop sele…
Beyond the Budget: Finance Organization and Reform in a Chinese County
The Fate of the Commune
The Chinese people's commune, as we know it, is on its way out. The possibility of an across-the-board radical restructuring of the has been under discussion in Chinese political and academic circles for the past few years.' Carefully monitored keypoint-type experiments in decommunization have been conducted around the country. And the 1982 state constitution makes it clear that the distinctive feature of the people's commune-its merger of politi…
Peasant Organization and Peasant Individualism
Peasant China in Transition. The Dynamics of Development Toward Socialism, 1949-1956
Reorganizing R ural Trade: Unified Purchase and Socialist Transformation
The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces
Mutual Empowerment of State and Society: Its Nature, Conditions, Mechanisms, and Limits
Party-state, nation, empire: Rethinking the grammar of Chinese Governance
Western political scientists, regarding China as a nation-state like any other, commonly classify it as a 'party-state' and as 'authoritarian'. Yet China's transition to modern statehood differed from that of almost every other postimperial or 'new' nation on the planet. Drawing on new scholarship in the history of empire and of modern China, this essay reflects on certain repercussions of the Sinic world's singular experience of empire, imperial…
The Fate of the Commune
The Chinese people's commune, as we know it, is on its way out. The possibility of an across-the-board radical restructuring of the has been under discussion in Chinese political and academic circles for the past few years.' Carefully monitored keypoint-type experiments in decommunization have been conducted around the country. And the 1982 state constitution makes it clear that the distinctive feature of the people's commune-its merger of politi…
The Political Economy of Compassion: China's ‘charity supermarket’ saga
With a focus on Tianjin, this article examines the recent widespread establishment of 'charity supermarkets' in China's cities. Inspired by the example of certain 'thrift shops' in the US, charity supermarkets were set up for the purpose of assisting the urban poor. Several contrasting contemporary discourses within China concerning poverty, charity, business, and the proper roles of the market, state, and community in the delivery of social welf…
The Quality of Mercy: Confucian Charity and the Mixed Metaphors of Modernity in Tianjin
Based on archival research, this study traces the development of the Guangren Tang—Tianjin’s largest benevolent Hall, established to house and support chaste widows and orphans—and its relationship to changing national and local governmental authorities over the fifty years from 1878 to 1928. It gives a detailed account of the rules governing the everyday lives of the Hall’s inmates and chronicles changes in how these charity recipients were rega…
Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule
This analysis aims to place certain key elements of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule observed under Xi Jinping today into longer and fuller historical perspective. It highlights trademark CCP practices of ordering space, marking time, potent political messaging, and vigorous propaganda diffusion as these have evolved over many years up to the present, reconsidering these in light of early Chinese cosmological thought and later symbolic practice…
Rule as Repertory and the Compound Essence of Authority
These brief comments reflect on several of the interrelated themes that are raised in the various articles featured in this issue, including (1) their acknowledgement of the synthetic, always-plural techniques of rule that, both historically and today, are available for deployment within the Chinese political system at any one time; (2) that powerfully informing and often-recurring ideal of governance in China that privileges a seamless blending …
Reorganizing R ural Trade: Unified Purchase and Socialist Transformation
The New Course in Chinese Agriculture
China's current reform program in agriculture is enormously ambitious in intent and highly significant for all aspects of future economic and political development. It represents a rejection of past policies of large-scale labor mobilization and communal self-reliance in favor of commercialization and individual incentives for peasants. Diversification of the rural economy, decentralization of farm management, production specialization, crop sele…
Beyond the Budget: Finance Organization and Reform in a Chinese County
Sovereignty, Rule of Law, and Ideologies of the Nation
The Long Bow Film Trilogy—A Review Article
These three excellent documentaries have received both high honors from the film world and an appreciative welcome from Asia scholars eager to make use of them in the classroom. Students and non-China specialists seeing them for the first time generally praise them for “humanizing” life in rural China, for providing an “intimate” look at “real” Chinese people as they are but rarely glimpsed in the West. When students have first been primed with r…
The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces
Reorganizing R ural Trade: Unified Purchase and Socialist Transformation
Peasant China in Transition. The Dynamics of Development Toward Socialism, 1949-1956
Peasant Organization and Peasant Individualism
The New Course in Chinese Agriculture
China's current reform program in agriculture is enormously ambitious in intent and highly significant for all aspects of future economic and political development. It represents a rejection of past policies of large-scale labor mobilization and communal self-reliance in favor of commercialization and individual incentives for peasants. Diversification of the rural economy, decentralization of farm management, production specialization, crop sele…
Beyond the Budget: Finance Organization and Reform in a Chinese County
The Fate of the Commune
The Chinese people's commune, as we know it, is on its way out. The possibility of an across-the-board radical restructuring of the has been under discussion in Chinese political and academic circles for the past few years.' Carefully monitored keypoint-type experiments in decommunization have been conducted around the country. And the 1982 state constitution makes it clear that the distinctive feature of the people's commune-its merger of politi…
The Long Bow Film Trilogy—A Review Article
These three excellent documentaries have received both high honors from the film world and an appreciative welcome from Asia scholars eager to make use of them in the classroom. Students and non-China specialists seeing them for the first time generally praise them for “humanizing” life in rural China, for providing an “intimate” look at “real” Chinese people as they are but rarely glimpsed in the West. When students have first been primed with r…
The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic
These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they explore two major themes from different historical and theoretical points of departure. First, the author argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved.…
The Reach of State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic
State power and social organization in China
PROLOGUE There is an odor of righteous vindication in the air. Communism is in disarray around the world. Little wonder then if some influential voices emanating from the capitalist camp have been heard now claiming not just the missile victory and the moral victory, but the economic and the philosophic victories as well. The unmistakable turning point, both in Europe and in China, came in 1989, amid a staggering series of unlooked-for events at …
State power and social forces: On political contention and accommodation in the Third World
A STATE-IN-SOCIETY APPROACH The recent renewal of intellectual interest in the state has made a number of salutary collateral contributions to the field of comparative politics. One of these has been to provoke a certain rejuvenation of the comparative study of politics and society in the low-income countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Moving beyond the lamentable dialogue of the deaf to which the debates between both modernization and d…
State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World
This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality, country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of 'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states, …
State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World
Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County
This is the first systematic, longitudinal study of the organisation and operations of Chinese government at the county level. Highlighting the contention-prone yet often collaborative relationships between county officials and the production units and administration above and below them, the authors open a window on the Chinese state and statecraft in the vast bureaucratic middle ground between Beijing policymaking and community-level politics. …
Mutual Empowerment of State and Society: Its Nature, Conditions, Mechanisms, and Limits
The Quality of Mercy: Confucian Charity and the Mixed Metaphors of Modernity in Tianjin
Based on archival research, this study traces the development of the Guangren Tang—Tianjin’s largest benevolent Hall, established to house and support chaste widows and orphans—and its relationship to changing national and local governmental authorities over the fifty years from 1878 to 1928. It gives a detailed account of the rules governing the everyday lives of the Hall’s inmates and chronicles changes in how these charity recipients were rega…
Rule as Repertory and the Compound Essence of Authority
These brief comments reflect on several of the interrelated themes that are raised in the various articles featured in this issue, including (1) their acknowledgement of the synthetic, always-plural techniques of rule that, both historically and today, are available for deployment within the Chinese political system at any one time; (2) that powerfully informing and often-recurring ideal of governance in China that privileges a seamless blending …
Sovereignty, Rule of Law, and Ideologies of the Nation
The Political Economy of Compassion: China's ‘charity supermarket’ saga
With a focus on Tianjin, this article examines the recent widespread establishment of 'charity supermarkets' in China's cities. Inspired by the example of certain 'thrift shops' in the US, charity supermarkets were set up for the purpose of assisting the urban poor. Several contrasting contemporary discourses within China concerning poverty, charity, business, and the proper roles of the market, state, and community in the delivery of social welf…
Party-state, nation, empire: Rethinking the grammar of Chinese Governance
Western political scientists, regarding China as a nation-state like any other, commonly classify it as a 'party-state' and as 'authoritarian'. Yet China's transition to modern statehood differed from that of almost every other postimperial or 'new' nation on the planet. Drawing on new scholarship in the history of empire and of modern China, this essay reflects on certain repercussions of the Sinic world's singular experience of empire, imperial…
Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule
This analysis aims to place certain key elements of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule observed under Xi Jinping today into longer and fuller historical perspective. It highlights trademark CCP practices of ordering space, marking time, potent political messaging, and vigorous propaganda diffusion as these have evolved over many years up to the present, reconsidering these in light of early Chinese cosmological thought and later symbolic practice…
Political science (21 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · China (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works)