A Study Of Peasant State Identity In Land Reform

Since the 1990 s,when the concept of identity entered the mainland academic circle,it has rapidly become an important analytical tool for political science,ethnology,sociology,psychology,history and other disciplines,with countless relevant achievements.However,there are few academic researches on farmers’ national identity in the land reform in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China,and even fewer researches focused on Jiangxi.So how did New China gain the identity of farmers,what beneficial attempts did the state power make in building such identity,and what changes did farmers have in this process? Based on such thinking,this paper takes Jiangxi as an example,through investigating the construction of farmers’ national identity in the land reform in the early days of the founding of New China,to see how the state power in the early days of the founding of New China stabilized its own heel,with a view to providing useful experience and training for today’s research on national identity.The study found that the farmers’ national identity has a strong constructiveness.In the imperial era,the Chinese peasants’ concept of the state was influenced by the ruling class.For farmers,the object of identification is first related to their families,families,clans and rural communities.The gap between the political life of the country and the daily life of farmers in terms of institutional environment has created a power vacuum of "imperial power does not go to the countryside" and "the sky is high and the emperor is far away" in the countryside.The country’s management of the countryside is accomplished by the gentry.Its "national identity" focuses more on the gentry representing the national authority.The attitude of the rural people to the gentry representing the national will or the grass-roots regime is the coexistence of fear,worship and alienation.After the founding of the People’s Republic of China,the CPC began to implement land reform nationwide.The poor and farm labourers,who accounted for the majority of the Chinese population,gained political discourse in the land reform.In the cognitive distinction between "self" and "others",they strengthened the political identity and political identity of farmers,and gradually established the awareness of identity with the People’s Republic of China.In addition,the involvement of the Party and the government in production,life and education has further strengthened the farmers’ sense of identity and belonging to the New China.In a word,through class division,land distribution,production and disaster relief,and various forms of education,the Party has gained the recognition of farmers for the new regime,cultivated farmers’ patriotic enthusiasm,stimulated farmers’ enthusiasm to invest in the construction of New China,and injected continuous energy into the recovery and development of New China.