Acknowledgement; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Bibliography; Chapter 2: The China Dream, History, Religion and Modernization; Revival of History: Tension Between Tradition and Development; Revival of Religion: Tension Between the Modern and Postmodern; Historical Discourses and the China Dream; History as a Moral Supplement for Modernization; The "Old Days" as "Reference Object": The Tension Between Humiliation and Greatness; Historic-Cultural Discourses: Tension Between the Self and the Other; Culture as Symbolic Resources for Rebuilding the Party's Legitimacy.

The "Mandate of Heaven" to Rule The Moral Righteousness of the Charismatic Leader; The Discourse of the China Model: Tension Between the Self and the Other; Tension of Relationships Between the State and the Market; Tension Between Democracy and Authoritarianism; Tension Between Generalization and Reality; Tension Between Authoritarianism and Individualization; Concluding Remarks; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Comparisons, Paradigms and the Remnant of Division: Our Approach; Comparison and its Colonial Implications; Opening Spaces beyond Dialectics.

The Paradigmatic Approach to Studying SpiritualityNotion of Spirituality and Ways of Studying Ethical Political Actors; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Discourses of Corruption: The Contest Between Different Authorities; Corruption as Threshold of Various Divisions; Tension Between the Legal and Moral; Tension Between Public Interests and Private Gains; Tension Between the Party and the Masses; The Tension Between Party Members and Non-Party Members; Guanxi: Connections Between Different Tensions; Threshold Between Moral and Immoral; Connections: Between the Instrumental and the Affective.

Trust and Risk Between the Gift Receiver and Gift GiverThe Formation of Factions Within the Party; Faction: Tensions Between Officials' Guanxi and Party Membership; Faction: Tension Between the Formal State and Shadow State; Faction: Tension Between the Individual Leader and the Party System; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: State of Exception: The Examination of Anti-Corruption Practices; Party as the Shadow State; Rehabilitating the Party's Ecology; Anti-Corruption as State of Exception: A Parallel "Justice" System.

Relationship Between the Legitimacy of the Party and Corrupted OfficialsGames of Truth Between the Party and Corrupted Officials; Politics of Fear and Uncertainty; Politics of Fear Through Governing Public Appearances; Politics of Fear Through Governing Spaces; Politics of Uncertainties: Destabilizing Guanxi in Factions; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: The Discourse of Formalism and Bureaucratism: The Contest of Order Within the Party; Tension Between Officialdom and Bureaucracy Within the Party.