A Study On Current Situation Of Rural Community's Public Life In The East Of Zhejiang

Through the investigation of current situation of rural community's public life in L Village, Beilun District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, This paper tried to provide the modern transition trend of the rural community's public life in the east of Zhejiang Province.The author firstly constructed the conception of community's public life from three aspects: individual, national, society. Based on that, the paper has put forward three historical forms of rural community's public life:" the public life under the influences of clan "," the public life under the control of national politics ", "the public life under the community's autonomy ", which made a historical location for the current situation of rural community's public life in L Village.To make a better understanding of transformation of public life, the paper made a brief introduction about L Village and the social background which caused the transformation. The author made a conclusion that there were three factors which promoted the modern transformation in rural community's public life: market-based orientation in economic field, democratization process in political field, stratum differentiation in social field.The paper has chosen several facts to disclose the fundamental features of rural community's public life. These facts including: the functions of village's administration have transformed from management to serving, the active non-government organization of rural community -- OldAssociation of L Village, resident participation--public amusement of LVillage, thinking of a public incident--action of the cotton grower. Basedon the facts above, the author summarized the basic trend of transformation of the rural community's public life.Finally, the paper also disclosed the significance contained in the modern transformation of rural community's public life in the east of Zhejiang Province. The author suggested that the transformation of community's public life means "good governance" , also means the increase of " social capital ", more importantly, it promote the society to form a strong " Civil society" in China.