| With the prerequisite that the political development in the Chinese rural regions is set in the nation's incremental reforms, this author explores rural China's political transitions and political patterns since 1992. The logic of the author's argument is that rural China has chosen the pattern of villager autonomy in line with the strategic policies on rural development and national reforms.With a view to delving into the mechanism and law of the rural political development, this author coins the phase "Spatial Politics." The author focuses on : a) the macro pattern of political development, involved in the foundations,approaches, paths,process and the like. The Macro political space is composed of dissimilar micro political spaces, which are in transformation. "Spatial Politics" is a interpretative tool term that conduces to explain the reason,dynamics,direction and the problems derived. b) the relations between micro political subjects, esp. the relationships between the state and the villages. There is a conflict situation of competition and opposition among them, in company with a compromising situation of bargaining and cooperation. c) The mechanism of the transition of political space. The unequal allocation of political power and the diversity of process between different political subjects result in different political mechanism, such as different structure and function,different regulation and process. This thesis falls into three parts. First, the Introduction and Chapter One deplore the theories in incremental transition to find the economic and historical bases for the formation of the rural political space. The author explores the empirical rural reform since 1992, with a conclusion that China's incremental reforms based on the nation's strength, that the strategic arrangement is an active and rational reform choice.Second, Chapters two-four, the major part of this thesis, are devoted to analysis of the power shifts during the political transitions in rural China. The author focuses on the development,formation of political space and its' mechanisms. There are three kinds of power subjects: the nation's, the organizational power and the power network owned by villagers themselves. It is a dumbbell-like power structure, illustrated as organizational power is too feeble to lighten the intensity from political transition. During the political transition period, two kinds of political spaces are exhausted, namely villagers' association and rural community, in terms of their forms, functions and transition backgrounds. This author views that the political subject with the authoritative power holds the sway over the growth direction and process of the villagers' association while the rural community is a space supported by non-authoritative powers. As to the author, rural community helps to the political development in rural China, while the situation is very critical, for the independent and autonomic political space is straitly confined. The differences in the behavioral logic of the political subjects affect the transition process of different political space, so the transition of a villagers' association hinges on the nation's policy adjustments while that of the rural community mirrors the villagers' public life and public sphere. As a matter of course, the two spatial spheres are not simply antagonistic, there are bases and conditions that are conducive to their being interactive.The third sector is about the growth of political space. The author prefers the unequal institutional relation resulted in the villager autonomy's fulfillment dilemma, for the fundamental countermeasure is to establish a system that can guarantee the independence to autonomic political space. This author also puts forward logic path for the growth of rural political space. Accordingly, the Communist Party of China must undergo a ruling transition, namely, it should assume different ruling functions in different political space in rural China.Undoubtedly, the arrangement of the argument...
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