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The Reconstruction Of City Society And State-building Of New China

Posted on:2006-12-11Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S L GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360155460497Subject:Political Theory
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From the point of view of state building, the revolution and state-building of the Communist Party of China are the part of the whole course of China state-building, which it began from the late Qing-dynasty. Generally, the peculiar phase went on wheels, and is of far-reaching historical significance. However, up to now, we have still lacked the positive analysis on the practical course. Through the scrutinized review of the history of shanghai from 1949 to 1955, by researching an amount of historical archives and analyzing them in theory, I lay stress on the annihilation of corporations such as charities, Tongxianghuis and the foundation of Urban Residential Committee from 1949 to 1955, I try to unveil and explain how state regime to construct its social foundation and shape in heterogeneous city space. Main points as below:One of common characteristics in the during of Modern state building is that state regime strive to penetrate through society, while the special property in new China is that not only state regime penetrate society and also construct a society system highly consisting with state will. Therefore, state has made a whole sweep of the old social construction and its foundation, and reconstructed the society and social foundation of state regime.The thesis mainly has three parts:In introduction, I bring up the question of the thesis, introduce the state building theory and the historical course of national states formation in Western Europe. Then, I bring up that state building in contemporary China has two phases. The thesis emphasizes on the first phase, which is characterized by destroying drastically the old social structure and its foundation, then reconstructing social structure and setting up its social foundation.The first part of thesis is made of first chapter and second chapter, mainly studying the change of Shanghai corporations such as charities, Tongxianghuis and so on before and after the liberation. Thesis thinks that Shanghai professionalorganizations such as Shanghai chamber of commerce and so on were destroyed drastically, and replaced them by the people's organizations such Shanghai business association and new professional organizations under the double logics of revolution and state-building. Under the same logic, the old corporations such as charities, Tongxianghuis and so on were looked as feudal corporations. As a result, those corporations emerged of themselves and perished of themselves about from 1949 to 1955. In fact, this course from the corporation to people's organization is the process of that city government system had changed into single administration from administrative and social running system, which play an important role in the formation of state building structure in city.The second part of thesis is made of the third and fourth chapter, which studies the change of Shanghai city grass-roots society. Under same revolutionary and state-building logic, new regime cleaned up the old social organizations and their foundation in Shanghai lanes, and had set up Urban Residential Committee that is the basic unit of state regime. Historically, Urban Residential Committee is the result of carrying out a variety of political movements and administrative activities. The task of Urban Residential Committee was to carry out the state will among inorganized city residents. However, because of the its self-determination and nongovernmental role, in the instance of lacking institutional restriction at early days of Urban Residential Committee, there were a amount of phenomena of corruption and degeneration among urban communities, moreover, Urban Residential Committee behaved more and less according to the logic of a social organization. In order to make Urban Residential Committee into eligible to a basic unit of state regime, state rectified it constantly by the "class purging system", in which state combined a variety of problems of Urban Residential Committee with a lot of "bad members" in organizations on one hand and purified continually it so as to carry out the policy of "worker class leading" , on another hand, combined the rectification with social reform of city residents so as to make them identify with new country and "people". In the meantime, the government financed the expenditure of Urban Residential Committee so that Urban Residential Committee became formally half-bureaucratic organization.The third part of thesis tries to link previous two parts. In theoretic scheme, state conceived to organize roundly the whole city residents by a variety of units, people's congress and a variety of professional organizations, in which there was...
Keywords/Search Tags:state building, city social structure, corporation, Urban Residential Committee, class purifying system
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