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The Politics of Neighborhood Governance in China (Paperback)
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The Politics of Neighborhood Governance in China (Paperback)
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For the nearly three decades of coexistence between economic
liberalization and political authoritarianism, China remains as an
anomaly to the liberal mantra of our time. This book explores a
segment of the China Paradox, the state-society interaction
channeled by the Residents Committee. Being the largest urban
neighborhood organization, the committee deserves study because of
its controversial status between ordinary residents it claims to
represent and the authoritarian state. The committee enters the
discourse as a directly congruent example of the same paradox that
the whole China displays, when it is endowed with important, yet
tension-changed statutory functions ranging from social control to
service provision and neighborhood self-governance. How, and under
what conditions, does the committee carry out its functions? What
can be learned about changing state-society relations from the
dynamics of neighborhood politics in China? This book draws its
analytical framework on the theoretical models of state
penetration, civil disobedience, corporatism, and synergy, as well
as on the practices of American, Cuban, and Japanese neighborhood
organizations and the Chinese Rural Villagers Committee. Four
distinctive Residents Committees in Tianjin City are studied in
detail, and their functions are identified and explained primarily
through their structural connections with the lowest state organ in
cities, the street office, and residents (including other
neighborhood organizations and activists). The book reveals
multiple possibilities of Chinese social/political transformation.
Among them emerges a promising trend of state-society cooperation,
which is realigning and accommodatingpolitical authoritarianism and
economic openness into a seemingly sustainable pattern of
development at the urban grassroots. Referred to as an "amphibian"
organization spanning public-private division, the committee
highlights the limits of the state-society antithesis in the study
of political transformation. The observed patterns of neighborhood
politics also raise caution against the universal applicability of
the liberal norm of civil society to countries like China with
distinctive conditions from which the original norm is present and
constructed.
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