By Guohui Wang
Wang's booklet deals an empirically wealthy and conceptually nuanced research of ways neighborhood nation brokers preserve regulate over village self-governance in China. His cautious research of fundamental records allows him to explicate the formal mechanisms utilized by individuals of the neighborhood kingdom to persuade village affairs. in the meantime, his rigorous and interesting ethnographic info allow him to clarify the manifold ways that casual clientelist ties among neighborhood kingdom officers and village elites enable the previous to exert regulate. total, this glorious publication powerfully demonstrates the necessity for students to head past consciousness to election techniques while comparing what village democracy ability in a chinese language context. it's a must-read for all critical students of chinese language politics and society.
—Rachel Murphy, college of Oxford
Guohui Wang's hugely unique, in-depth case examine vividly finds the dynamics of up to date chinese language village politics. via combining plentiful empirical facts with shut statement as an "insider," his e-book illustrates the approaches and results of transplanting 'democracy' into rural chinese language society. really for these within the West who're partial to figuring out the continuing transformation of rural China, this publication is a wealthy and revealing source.
—Shukai Zhao, improvement learn middle of the kingdom Council, P.R. China
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3), the candidates/ village elites (Chap. 4) and the local state officials (Chap. 5). These three chapters attempt to reveal how different actors behave and why they choose such strategies in the course of direct VC elections. Chapter 3 deals with the ordinary villagers/ voters. It argues that, rather than having a strong empowering effects, direct VC elections have far from changed the fact that ordinary villagers today remain in the position of clients, who are dependent and therefore subject to the influence of a few patrons in their village community.
First, VC elections in B village had apparently been highly competitive. By the time of my first fieldwork in March 2004, two rounds of direct VC elections had been held in B village. Both rounds had been competitive in the sense that they had resulted in a change of leadership. In the 1999 election, the incumbent VC cadres (Old Leading Team) were ousted by the challengers (New Faction); however, in the 2002 election, the candidates of the “Old Leading Team” won back office and supplanted the “New Faction” (B village’s elections based on factional contests will be discussed in Chap.
69–72). At this crucial juncture, Peng Zhen, who was nearly 90 years and retired, once again exerted his influence and strong political prestige as a Party senior to defend the law, on which he had placed so much effort. He privately summoned the minister of the MoCA and pressed him to take a firm stand on villagers’ self-governance policy (Bai 1995: pp. 223–224; Li 1994: p. 72). It is also reported that Peng even summoned (unnamed) opponents in private, complaining about their foot-dragging on the implementation of villagers’ self-governance (White 1992: p.