China's State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam
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China's State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam

The Political Theodicy of Development

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China's State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam

The Political Theodicy of Development

About this book

This book uses the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state's use of ideology, namely the political theodicy of development, as a governing tactic in the reform era.

Presenting observations from fieldwork collected after the dam's completion, it reveals communities who not only embraced their improved livelihoods, but also expressed support for the mega-project and the Party's leadership. However, the research also indicates that the effects of the ideological dissemination surrounding the project were not monolithic, with the development process involving extensive struggles and contradictions, including locals facing unemployment and the fragmentation of their social networks. This disjuncture between the state ideology and social reality thus revealed flaws in the official imperative of political theodicy.

Displaying how the authoritarian rule of the Chinese state can be adaptive in modifying its mode of governance, especially when faced with the unintended consequences of failures, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian environment, development politics, and Chinese politics, history and society.

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Yes, you can access China's State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam by Yuen-ching Bellette Lee in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Preface and Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Historical Background of the Dam
  12. 2 From “Socialism With Chinese Characteristics” to “China Dream”: The Concept of Development Under Reform
  13. 3 “Science” and “Socialist Democracy”: A New Mode of Governance After Mao
  14. 4 “Common Prosperity”: Spatial Production and Subject Transformation at the Three Gorges
  15. 5 “Mother River” and “Second Cradle of Chinese Civilization”: The Cultural Re-encoding of the Yangtze as a Futurist Nation
  16. 6 “March Toward the International”: The Politics of Global Capital and Transnational Resistance
  17. Epilogue: A New Form of “Hydropower Discourse” in the 21st Century
  18. Index