Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and ResistanceRowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 287 páginas Exploring sensitive issues often hidden to outsiders, this engaging study traces the transformation and economic development of a south China village during the first tumultuous decade of reform. Drawing on a wealth of intimate detail, Ku explores the new sense of risk and mood of insecurity experienced in the post-reform era in Ku Village, a typical hamlet beyond the margins of richer suburban areas or fertile farmland. Villagers' dissatisfaction revolves around three key issues: the rising cost of living, mounting agricultural expenses, and the forcible implementation of birth-control quotas. Faced with these daunting problems, villagers have developed an array of strategies. Their weapons include resisting policies they consider unreasonable by disregarding fees, evading taxes, and ignoring strict family planning regulations; challenging the rationale of official policies and the legitimacy of the local government and its officials; and reestablishing clan associations to supercede local Party authority. Using lively everyday narratives and compelling personal stories, Ku argues that rural people are not in fact powerless and passive; instead they have their own moral system that informs their everyday family lives, work, and political activities. Their code embodies concepts of fairness and justice, a concrete definition of the relationship between the state and its citizens, an understanding of the boundaries and responsibilities of each party, and a clear notion of what constitutes good and bad government and officials. On the basis of these principles, they may challenge existing policies and deny the authority of officials and the government, thereby legitimizing their acts of self-defense. Through his richly realized ethnography, Ku shows the reader a world of memorable, fully realized individuals striving to control their fate in an often arbitrary world. |
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Contenido
Staying in the Village Exploring the World of Renqing Guanxi | 17 |
We Hakkas are real han our ancestors came from the Central Plain | 19 |
Ku Village is such a good place with good mountains and good water | 23 |
Natural geography brings our village good fengshui | 29 |
This is a word of renqing guanxi | 32 |
Talking the Past Making History | 45 |
The Communist army came to our village | 49 |
They said poor people had turned over | 53 |
Expressing Discontent Carrying Out Resistance | 155 |
Nowadays there are more and more taxes | 157 |
This is a double taxation | 159 |
Money is in our pocket Nobody can get it | 164 |
The Communist Party is excellent at naming | 169 |
The river is ours | 174 |
Paying the Price Getting a Son | 179 |
A couple has the duty and obligation to carry out family planning | 181 |
The situation was at its worst many died of starvation | 56 |
The were local emperors | 61 |
This was a period of chaos | 67 |
Planting the Pomelo Walking Away from Poverty | 75 |
Villagers suffer poverty throughout their lives | 78 |
Pomelo is our golden fruit | 84 |
All day every day is almost the same in the village | 91 |
What do farmers rely on? A piece of land and two hands | 95 |
I prefer life in the village | 101 |
It was the way to achieve security | 104 |
Practicing Democracy Losing Legitimacy | 111 |
It is just old wine in a new bottle | 112 |
Our authority cannot be compared with before | 116 |
The game of the Communist Party can only cheat the dead | 119 |
Defining Responsibility Negotiating Relationships | 125 |
The government cannot cheat us any longer | 128 |
Todays government doesnt care about us | 131 |
The Maoist government cared for the poor and elderly | 139 |
Cadres have to serve the people | 142 |
They arent good leaders they lack education | 146 |
Not bad he is the ideal candidate for a village head | 150 |
Daughters are outsiders Spending money on them is like spilling water | 183 |
Guerrillas of excess births are the troublemakers | 188 |
Those about have policy those below have countermethods | 195 |
School is for education not for birth control | 199 |
Bypassing Government Rebuilding the Village | 203 |
Where we have a good or bad harvest depends on the heavens | 205 |
Never forget your roots | 211 |
We are old Ku Village depends on you young people | 216 |
Leaving the Village | 221 |
Villagers as Practical Philosophers | 223 |
The Politics of Memory | 224 |
A Sense of Insecurity | 225 |
Defining Zeren as Moral Politics | 226 |
Popular Resistance in Ku Village | 228 |
Epilogue | 233 |
Glossary | 239 |
Bibliography | 247 |
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Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and ... Hok Bun Ku Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and ... Hok Bun Ku Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
Términos y frases comunes
administrative district agricultural asked became birth control brigade Brother Xin campaign China Chinese collective committee Communist Party constructed contracted land Cultural Revolution defined Deng Deng Xiaoping discourse economic election everyday family planning fengshui fruit fulfill ganqing Gongwang grain Guangdong Guangzhou guanxi Guanyin Hakka harvest Hong Kong households hukou ideology income Ku Village labor lagers land reform landlords leaders living Mao's Maoist Mei County Meixian Meixian County Meizhou ment Ming moral official old villagers organization overseas Chinese overseas villagers Pearl River Delta peasant people's planting political pomelo trees poor practice production quota relationship resistance responsibility rice rural China rural reform Shatian pomelo social socialist society Songkou Songnan tion told township government Uncle Leng Uncle Si Uncle Xiang urban village cadres village head Wenming Xiaohuang young villagers yuan Yueshun zeren
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