The Power Structure of Rural Grassroots Units and Its Operational Mechanisms: A Case Study of the Situation in Changwuzhen in Heilongjiang Province

This is a case study of the formal power structure of the ruralcommunities at village and town (township) levels in the hinterland ofnortheast China. Changwuzhen (Changwu town ) in Zhaodong City,Heilongjiang province was selected as the site of study. Changwuzhen is acommunity formed in the early 20th century by immigrants from manyparts of the country. It has a total area of 139. 5 sq. km. and apopulation of 40, 000 or so, and consists of one market town, 18administrative villages and 54 na…     

Party,State and Society:the Relationship among the Three

There are cases in village self-government where the head of the villagers' committee and the secretary of the Party branch in the village are one and the same person. Under such conditions the relationship between township/town and village is simplified. Although the relationship of guidance between the township government, the guide, and the villagers' committee, the guided, and the relationship of direct control between the township/town Party committee, the controller, and the village Party branch, the controlled, are theoretically distinguishable as laid down in legal texts, it is difficult to differentiate between     

Introduction

The Korean War can be said to be the hottest topic in studies of international Cold War history. At least, this is the case in China. More files and documents about the Korean War have been declassified in recent years in different countries than about any other crises and events, providing fertile ground for the mushrooming of numerous research findings in various countries and languages. On the one hand, as the first large-scale     

The State and Farmers: Definition of Roles and Functions in the Supply of Public Goods

One of the major contradictions con- fronting Chinese rural areas today is the con- stant increase in farmers' individual needs and the equally rapid growth in their public needs on the one hand, and on the other the double shortage of private and public goods. As a low-income group, individual farmers bear too much of the burden of supplying public goods and have to put their limited funds into the production of public goods. As a result, not only have they not solved the problem of shortage of public goods,     

主持人的话（英文）

Industrialization and urbanization are stages that no nation’s economic development can bypass.They should be complementary and coordinated,but since the founding of New China in 1949,including the decades since reform and opening up in 1978,the two have become decoupled.On one hand,as has been widely noted,urbanization has lagged behind industrialization;on the other,people are uneasy about the race to urbanize,and especially about new-type urbanization,fearing that it may lose impetus unless supported     

Chinese Culture and Globalization:World Culture Report,Chinese Section

The first cultural cases:heritage This paper selects two typical culturalcases to present a picture of how traditional Chinese culture is metamorphosing under the pressure of globalization. One is a natural endowment while the other was developed by human beings; one represents visible tra-dition and the other the invisible tradition; one shows a point that remains and the other an aspect that is universal. First is “cultural heritage” as defined by the UNESCO. If we say that it is the un…     

The Final Extinction of Mankind

Will mankind live forever on this planet? No. Mankind will surely come to an end one day. This sounds like alarmist talk, but if we have a close look at the world around us we will see a lot of evidence that foreshadows the inevitability of the end of mankind. 1. Theoretical basis. "Everything that comes into being is doomed to die out." The natural world does not remain in a static state, but is constantly generating and destroying. This is a law of nature that cannot be changed. Human beings are the wisest of all creatures, their birth occupies a paramount position in the history of organic evolution, their wisdom is unparalleled by all other creatures, and no one would ever think of the fact that human beings are doomed to final extinction. In spite of all this, as a product of nature,     

On the Relationship between Globalization and Modernity

Discussions on globalization have been lively since the middle of 1990s. They have replaced, to a certain degree, past contentions on modernity and post-modernity to emerge as a hot topic in the mainstream world of learning. What then is the relationship between globalization and modernity? There are now three different viewpoints on this question in academic circles:     

My Love for Liaoning——Maple Leaf Cup Chinese Speaking Contest

"Over the past five years, Liaoning, you have indeed given me a lot. You have brought me profound love from teachers and schoolmates. You make me see trust from patients, and help me understand the lofty duty of the doctors. My first appreciation of the heavy snow is also one of your mysterious gifts." This is what Bbandama, a student from Zambia who studies Chinese medicine in the university, said during the Chinese speaking contest on June 11. His fluent Chinese was warmly responded.     

Special Issue: Logic and Cognition: The Progress in Logical Study in China

Ever since the late 20~(th) century, the de-velopment of computer science has entered anera of knowledge processing and intelligencesimulation. On the one hand, building logicalsystems to describe the characteristics ofadvanced cognitive process for knowledgerepresentation as well as the processing andexploration of new software has become themainstream of logical research. On the otherhand, the development of mathematical logic,     

Liaohe Cultural Industrial Area

On May 18, 2004, the China Association for Fine Artists and the Ministry of Culture officially named the Liaohe Cultural Industrial Area "Cultural (Fine Art) Industrial Demonstration Base." Thus, the Industrial Area became one of the two such bases in the country. The other is located in Xukou of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.     

Special Issue: Studies of the Three Critical Issues in Rural China Introduction

The “three critical issues of rural China(the issues of rural areas, the farmer, andagriculture)” have become so serious that theyattract great concern from all sectors ofsociety. On the one hand, involvement in thediscussion is not confined to scholars, stillless to specialists in a particular discipline.Even the central government leadership hastaken an interest in some of these debates.On the other hand, existing research not onlyproduces many points of growth in terms ofknowledge, but ha…     

Capital Formation, Industrialization and Economic Growth: Characteristics OF China Structural Reform

The economic growth in China saw more and more tokens of static features in recent years and up to now, it is still lack of a steady and sustained momentum for kinetic innovation. On the other hand, the orbit-     

New Ideas on Equality

I. The Concept of Equality Equality, as Giovanni Sartori states, is being "the same as one another. "1 However, the sameness between men is not necessarily equality.For example, if two men each have a black mole on their hand, onecannot say that they have an equal black mole. When people have thesame surname, you cannot say that they have equal surnames.What kind of sameness then represents equality between men? It isthe sameness in human relations of procuring interest. The sameness ordif…     

The Process of Urbanization and the Protection of Peasants'''' Rights and Interests

The concern of the Chinese world of learning over the existing problems of urbanization is concentrated at present on environmental pollution, traffic jams, tight accommodation, increasing unemployment and social disorder, and little attention is given to the damage to peasants' rights and interests as a matter of overriding importance for the development of urbanization. This phenomenon is rooted in the theoretical hypoth-     

An Analysis of Low Public Confi-dence in the Judiciary in Taiwan

Lin Duan pointed out in his paper “Lawand Society in Taiwan” published in Qinghuafazhi lunheng, no. 5, that one of our con-cerns is whether the public have faith in thejudiciary in Taiwan and what the public’sopinion is of legal personnel such as judges,procurators and policemen. Forensic soci-ology has put an end to the “forensic myth.”Through forensic sociological studies we notonly have an understanding of the limitedusefulness of lawsuits but know that law-suits are not necessarily …     

SPECIAL ISSUE： EXAMINING THE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINAIntroduction

The amount of thought given to the death penalty is almost equal to that which the entire field of humanities and social science has expended on life itself, and shows no signs of flagging. The question may be formulated as a purely philosophical one, but it has also drawn the attention of political scientists. Naturally, it is also an important legal issue.Papers presented in this special issue on the death penalty cover both substantive and procedural law. In ＂On the ＇Criterion＇ of Proof in Capital Cases and the Revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure,＂ Professor Wang Minyuan discusses the trial hearing from the perspective of the Criminal Procedure Law, arguing that whether a capital case meets the most rigorous requirements for proof is the basic standard by which its quality should be measured and the key to solving quality problems in capital cases. In ＂The Death Penalty and Human Rights,＂ Professor Chen Zhonglin reflects upon the legitimacy of the death penalty from the perspective of substantive law, and emphasizes the need for a correct understanding of the conditions for application of the death sentence and the suspended death sentence stipulated in the Criminal Law of China.     

Can NGOs Solve China''''s Difficult Problems?

In present-day China, "NGO" has become one of the most fashionable concepts in the wake of the WTO. However, in practice NGOs encounter many institutional obstacles. The first is difficulty in registration, which has forced some NGOs to register as enterprises with the departments in charge of industry and commerce. Some others are simply "illegal" organizations, not registered and just operating in their own way. The other obstacle is diffi-     

The Productive Service Industry and Modern Economic Growth

Productive services refers to market-ized non-ultimate consumption services, i.e., services as intermediate inputs of other products or service production, taking place continuously in various stages of production. The productive service industry is knowledge- and technology-intensive and changes the contents and nature of service products and their position and role in the national economy. Serving as an economic "bonding agent," the productive service industry becomes a driver of modern economic growth and boosts economic competitiveness. Services are increasingly entering the productive field as a soft means of production and play an important role in raising economic efficiency and competitiveness.