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Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, Chinas most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre-Communist 1930s and 1940s, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post-Mao reforms, the author explores the historical development of a local state regime he characterizes as managerial corporatism.Genealogies of power suggest that agnatic solidarity among selective patrilineal kin, as well as other modes of association based on marriage, ritual kinship, and personal friendship, were critical factors in the local political arena. The particularly close relationships that developed among a core group of local cadres and their kin during the Maoist years shaped the ways in which party-state policies were interpreted, implemented, and experienced by fellow villagers. These ties were also critical in orchestrating village industrialization and corporate community building in the 1980s and 1990s.The processes of community and elite formation entailed the mobilization of some alliances of interest, emotion, and exchange while at the same time suppressing others. The author examines strategies and patterns of interfamily cooperation and conflict during the tumultuous decadesthe 1920s-1940s of civil unrest, inflation, and burgeoning taxation. He shows how historical relationships between local families and officials were instrumental in shaping the reorganization of rural life under Communism. The social organization of polity and economy in Qiaolou village during the reform era bore many hallmarks of both corporate and corporatist practices. Loosened state controls enabled village cadres to create new roles for themselves as economic patrons, drawing on economic, social, political, and symbolic resources to cultivate solidarity and labor discipline within the village corporation they managed.

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title:Cadres and Kin : Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991
author:Ruf, Gregory A.
publisher:Stanford University Press
isbn10 | asin:0804733775
print isbn13:9780804733779
ebook isbn13:9780585053769
language:English
subjectVillages--China--Case studies, Villages--China--History--20th century, Communism--China--History--20th century, Socialism--China--History--20th century.
publication date:1998
lcc:HN733.R85 1998eb
ddc:307.76/2/0951
subject:Villages--China--Case studies, Villages--China--History--20th century, Communism--China--History--20th century, Socialism--China--History--20th century.
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Cadres And Kin
Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991
GREGORY A. RUF
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford, California
1998
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Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
1998 by the Board of Trustees of the
Leland Stanford Junior University
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ruf, Gregory A.
Cadres and kin: making a socialist village in West China, 1921-1991/
Gregory A. Ruf.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8047-3377-5 (cloth)
1. VillagesChinaCase studies. 2. VillagesChinaHistory20th century. 3. CommunismChinaHistory20th century. 4. SocialismChinaHistory20th century. I. Title.
HN733.R85 1998
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For Nikos and Kalliopi
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Contents
Preface
xi
Abbreviations and Measures
xix
1. A Topography of the Past: Shaping a Township Landscape in the Early Twentieth Century
1
2. Alliance and Antagonism: Family Associations in an Era of Insecurity
30
3. Creating a New Village Order: Revolutionizing Identity Through Liberation and Land Reform
62
4. Getting Organized: Struggling with Collectivism
90
5. Village as Enterprise: Corporate Community Management in the Deng Era
122
6. A Topography of the Present: Shaping a Village Landscape in the Late Twentieth Century
151
Appendix: Quiaolou Village Compact
165
Notes
169
Works Cited
219
Character List
235
Index
239
Page ix
Illustrations And Tables
Maps
1. Western Chengdu plain, Sichuan
8
2. Meishan county
10
3. Second Bao of Baimapu township, ca. 1940
14
4. Baimapu township and its administrative villages, 1991
70
5. Qiaolou village, 1991
123
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