Statecraft in Symbols: Policy and the Life of the Chinese Nation
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Divide and Offer -- 1.1 Policy as Signs of National Life -- 1.2 Theorising Policy as Statecraft -- 1.2.1 Policy as Invariably Varied -- 1.2.2 China as a Policy-Issuing Entity -- 1.2.3 China as Part of the Modern World-System -- 1.2.4 China as Active Constituent Systems -- 1.3 Conceptualising Chinese State Policy -- 1.3.1 Statehood, the Citizenry and Nationhood -- 1.3.2 Policy and Policy Density -- 1.3.3 Policy in Discursive Space -- 1.4 Analysing Chinese State Policy -- 1.4.1 Interpreting Statecraft Through Policy -- 1.4.2 Focus on Ideology -- 1.4.3 Focus on Policy Form, Function, and Rhetoric -- 1.5 Chapter Outline -- References -- 2 Urban-Urban Disparities -- 2.1 Orientation -- 2.2 Policy's Political Semiotics -- 2.2.1 Reproduction of Exchange Relations Through Recursion -- 2.2.2 Differentiation by Fractionalisation -- 2.3 Poleis and Populace in China -- 2.3.1 Mutual Imbrication of Territory and Population in Policy -- 2.3.2 Symbolic Construction of Poleis in Policy -- 2.3.3 Symbolic Construction of Populace in Policy -- 2.4 Discursive Architecture as Statecraft -- 2.4.1 The State as a Visionary -- 2.4.2 The State as Top-Level Designer -- 2.4.3 A New Identity for an Old Dilemma -- 2.5 Designing New Urban Citizenship -- 2.5.1 Urban Residency, Settlement, and Transience -- 2.5.2 The Regulation of Permanent Urban Settlement -- 2.5.3 New Citizenship in Beijing and Suzhou -- 2.6 Policy, Poleis, and Disparity -- References -- 3 Urban Classes -- 3.1 Orientation -- 3.2 Inequality Among Urban Residents -- 3.2.1 Empirical Perspectives -- 3.2.2 Theoretical Perspectives -- 3.2.3 Equality Before Law and Policy -- 3.2.4 Relations Between State and Societal Agents -- 3.3 Public Service Provision as Multi-party Exchange -- 3.3.1 Urban Scale and Administrative Rank.
