Morality, Power And Governmentality: Implication, History And Practice Of People’s Politics

China has witnessed huge expand of economy and social stability in the past three decades, Chinese miracle, which constitutes the base of this article. The paper focuses on an "alternative" to re-examine the so-called miracle. There are two internal standards. Firstly, this alternative can be able to solve a series of relations including party-state, state-society, mobilization-bureaucracy, morality-power and so on. Secondly, this alternative can connect revolution and reform, pre-1949 and New China, PRC and the 20th century China. People’s politics discourse can answer these two questions.In the dimension of implication, this article divides it into three aspects as follows, the value dimension, interpretive dimension and instrumental dimension. Then the article examines the people’s politics discourse from historical sociological angle and structural angle. In the former, the people’s politics discourse can be divided into three eras, "revolutionary era", "continue revolution" and "reform era", which correspond to different manifestations. In the revolution era, the discourse referred to class mobilization and revolutionary masses, the grassroots power practice and the nation-state building by the mass. In the second era, it referred to revolution routinization and the mass functioned as weapon against the bureaucracy which Mao disliked. Reform era witnessed fading of revolutionary nature. In the dimension of practicality, the analysis focus on people’s political discourse from the duality, "catalytic" and "oppressive", the former refers to "mass mobilization Governance" and the latter to the rise of stability maintenance regime.Finally, the article does not propose a definitive conclusion, but to discuss people’s politics from the logic of "people-state-governance". And two questions are given in the end. One is "does the discourse has its terminate?" Another one is "how should we treat people’s political discourse?"...