State Formation in China and Taiwan

Introduction. Modalities of state building and institution building: bureaucracies, campaigns, and performance; 1. Virtue and talent in making Chinese states: heroes and technocrats in Sunan and Taiwan, 1949-1954; 2. Comparative terror in regime consolidation: Sunan and Taiwan, 1949-1954; 3. Performing terror: lenience, legality, and the dramaturgy of the consolidating state; 4. Repertoires of land reform campaigns in Sunan and Taiwan, 1950-1954; 5. Theatres of land reform: bureaucracy, campaign, and the show, 1950-1954; Conclusion; Appendix: list of interviewees; Documentary collections, reports, and periodicals.