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The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of eighteenth-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. In 'Of Body and Brush', Angela Zito offers a stunningly original analysis of the way ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated these prescriptions. Forging a critical cultural historical method that challenges traditional categories of Chinese studies, Zito shows for the first time that in their 'performance', the ritual texts embodied, literally, the metaphysics upon which imperial power rested. By combining rule through the brush (the production of ritual texts) with rule through the body (mandated performance), the throne both exhibited its power and attempted to control resistance to it. Bridging Chinese history, anthropology, religion, and performance and cultural studies, Zito brings an important new perspective to the human sciences in general.

S04/0690 --- S06/0205 --- S12/0340 --- S12/0216 --- China: History--Qing: 1644 - 1840 --- China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Qing --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Yili, Liji, Zhouli, Rites: general --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Political philosophy --- Imperialism. --- Rites and ceremonies --- China --- History --- Politics and government --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism

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The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policymakers. Lars-Erik Cederman argues that this lack of conceptual preparation stems from two tendencies in conventional theorizing. First, the dominant focus on cohesive nation-states as the only actors of world politics obscures crucial differences between the state and the nation. Second, traditional theory usually treats these units as fixed. Cederman offers a fresh way of analyzing world politics: complex adaptive systems modeling. He provides a new series of models--not ones that rely on rational-choice, but rather computerized thought-experiments--that separate the state from the nation and incorporate these as emergent rather than preconceived actors. This theory of the emergent actor shifts attention away from the exclusively behavioral focus of conventional international relations theory toward a truly dynamic perspective that treats the actors of world politics as dependent rather than independent variables. Cederman illustrates that while structural realist predictions about unit-level invariance hold up under certain circumstances, they are heavily dependent on fierce power competition, which can result in unipolarity instead of the balance of power. He provides a thorough examination of the processes of nationalist mobilization and coordination in multi-ethnic states. Cederman states that such states' efforts to instill loyalty in their ethnically diverse populations may backfire, and that, moreover, if the revolutionary movement is culturally split, its identity becomes more inclusive as the power gap in the imperial center's favor increases.

Política mundial --- Estado nacional. --- Barth, Fredrik. --- Bremer, Stuart A. --- Calhoun, Craig. --- European integration. --- Gorbachev, Mikhail. --- Italy. --- Keohane, Robert O. --- Markov process. --- Soviet Union. --- Tilly, Charles. --- agency. --- anarchy. --- assimilation theories. --- bounded rationality. --- causation. --- combat rules. --- decolonization. --- democracy. --- empires. --- federalism. --- game theory. --- hegemonic takeoff. --- historical sociology. --- levels-of-analysis problem. --- logistic function. --- mobilization. --- multinational states. --- nation building. --- nuclear deterrence. --- positive feedback. --- positivism. --- prediction. --- reification. --- secession. --- state formation.