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Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village - Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Resistance (Paperback, New)
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Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village - Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Resistance (Paperback, New)
Series: Asian Voices
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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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