This book offers a new interpretation of the evolution and modernization of social order in Chinas grass-roots communities. Traditionally, social order at the grass-roots level was maintained through an organic combination of self-rule by the people and authority rule by political leaders. As a hybr...

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1. Verfasser:	Zhou, Qingzhi (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Singapore Palgrave Macmillan [2022]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Gesellschaftsordnung Gemeindeverwaltung China Local government / China Village communities / China Comparative government China / Politics and government Local government Politics and government Village communities
Zusammenfassung:	This book offers a new interpretation of the evolution and modernization of social order in Chinas grass-roots communities. Traditionally, social order at the grass-roots level was maintained through an organic combination of self-rule by the people and authority rule by political leaders. As a hybrid form of social order, therefore, it not only has features of autonomy but also reflects the power of the state apparatus. Despite the modernization of the nation-state, the old rules sustaining social order at the grass-roots level are still very much in effect and have seamlessly integrated into the new social structure. Unless we fully appreciate this fundamental continuity, we would not be able to understand how social order at the grass-roots level today is upheld and functions. And the modernization of social order at the grass-roots level is most fruitfully studied from the perspectives of the construction of modern public social relations and the development of grass-roots systems of social autonomy
Beschreibung:	Translated from the Chinese
Beschreibung:	xv, 351 Seiten 21,7 cm
ISBN:	9789811966002