英文摘要 |
In the cities of contemporary China, the jie-ju (street-resident, neighborhood) system, which consists of sub-district offices and residents' committees, is a very familiar but not yet fully understood institution. How did this system originate and evolve? What is the relationship between this local institution and state and urban residents? We still do not know much about how this system operates. Over the past decades, accompanied by the booming of the shequ (community) system, scholars began to pay attention to the history of the jie-ju system. This article will investigate the building and evolution of this basic street institution in Beijing in the 1950s and early 1960s, and on this basis explore the nature of the governing system of the People's Republic of China. |