Limited Resistance Of Weak

With the rapid economic development and urbanization, massive land has been expropriated. The land expropriation has exacerbated the conflict between peasants and local government and aroused farmers'protest. The article focuses on the peasant resistance caused by land expropriation. Based on the three important theories, the article proposes"limited resistance"as the concept tool to explain the peasant resistance which emphasizes the limits of peasant resistance.The method of case study is applied in this study. Based on the field work which focuses on the peasant resistance during the process of land expropriation in Xi village of Fujian province, the article analyses the resistance characteristics from three aspects. The means of resistance are limited, the intensities of resistance are limited and the effects of resistance are limited. Through the analyses above, it brings us the conclusion that peasant resistance is a limited resistance. The author also discusses the factors that influence peasants'limited resistance. Then some advices are given in the last part of the article simply.There are some contributions in this study. It not only combines the land expropriation issue with the peasant resistance issue, but also proposes a new concept of"limited resistance". Meanwhile, the content of the"policy"and in the"policy-based resistance"theory and the"law"in the"struggle by law"theory have been modified in this paper.