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Discourses of Corruption: The Contest Between Different Authorities

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China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy

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This chapter will examine participants’ views on the corruption and anti-corruption crackdown in China. As will be demonstrated, the configuration of knowledge on corruption is a rather complicated process, in which officials use legal, moral, economic and political discourses (or a mixture of them) to depict the enemies of the Party as “corrupt.” We will examine the various tensions that exist in the relationships between the public and private, moral and legal, top and bottom, tradition and modern, which in combination form the discourse on corruption.

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  1. Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China

    Shaoying Zhang

  2. Department of Sociology, Social Policy, Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Derek McGhee

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Zhang, S., McGhee, D. (2017). Discourses of Corruption: The Contest Between Different Authorities. In: China’s Ethical Revolution and Regaining Legitimacy. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51496-3_4

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