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03475aam a2200421M 4500 001 7BBE23F08FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210407s2022 xx 0|| 0 eng d 020 $a 9781501761270 020 $a 1501761277 035 $a (OCoLC)1245346318 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TOH $d SILO 050 00 $a KNQ2070 $b .D53 2021 100 1 $a DIAMANT, NEIL J. 245 10 $a USEFUL BULLSHIT : $b constitutions in chinese politics and society. 260 $a [S.l.] : $b CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, $c 2022. 300 $a 1 volume ; $c 23 cm 520 8 $a In Useful Bullshit Neil J. Diamant pulls back the curtain on early constitutional conversations between citizens and officials in the PRC. Scholars have argued that China, like the former USSR, promulgated constitutions to enhance its domestic and international legitimacy by opening up the constitution-making process to ordinary people, and by granting its citizens political and socioeconomic rights. But what did ordinary officials and people say about their constitutions and rights? Did constitutions contribute to state legitimacy? 0Over the course of four decades, the PRC government encouraged millions of citizens to pose questions about, and suggest revisions to, the draft of a new constitution. Seizing this opportunity, people asked both straightforward questions like "what is a state?", but also others that, through implication, harshly criticized the document and the government that sponsored it. They pressed officials to clarify the meaning of words, phrases, and ideas in the constitution, proposing numerous revisions. Despite many considering the document "bullshit," successive PRC governments have promulgated it, amending the constitution, debating it at length, and even inaugurating a "Constitution Day."0Drawing upon a wealth of archival sources from the Maoist and reform eras, Diamant deals with all facets of this constitutional discussion, as well as its afterlives in the late '50s, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao era. Useful Bullshit illuminates how the Chinese government understands and makes use of the constitution as a political document, and how a vast array of citizens-police, workers, university students, women, and members of different ethnic and religious groups-have responded. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Constitutional law $x Social aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Constitutional law $x Political aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $x Social aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Legitimacy of governments $z China. 650 0 $a Sociological jurisprudence $z China. 651 0 $a China $x History. $x History. 650 7 $a LAW / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Constitutional history $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875786 650 7 $a Constitutional law $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875823 650 7 $a Constitutional law $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875835 650 7 $a Legitimacy of governments. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995908 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Sociological jurisprudence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123856 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317041144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7BBE23F08FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search