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Shaping “ Active Residents”:Coupled Paths for Political Parties to Lead the Self - Governance in
Community PEI Yuan - Yuan LUO Zhong - Shu 69
〔 Abstract〕The difficulties of community autonomy include the lack of initiative of the governance subjects, the
obstructed interaction among the governance subjects,and the weakness of subjectivity as well as community
awareness on whole community. Political parties have relative independence and political activism to reshape so
ciety. Especially when social sectors are impotent while public rationality has not been formed, political parties
can act as leading subjects to take up the responsibility of filling the vacuum of social sectors and stimulate social
vitality with political behavior. This is the rationale for parties to lead community autonomy,and it is also the
basic logic of uniformity between parties’leadership and community autonomy. Therefore,party organizations
in communities can cultivate active subjects,cooperative relationships,and conscious whole residents by taking
full advantages of organization,mobilization,interest coordination,and discourse construction,which should
conduce to build an organically united and well - ordered association among the governance subjects, so as to a
chieve the purpose of reshaping the community society and boosting community autonomy.
〔 Key words〕party - society relationship;community governance;community autonomy;active residents
State Governance in Ancient China:From “ Grand Unification”of Cultural Symbolism to “ Great
Centralization”of Political Systems HU Jian 78
〔 Abstract〕The change of governance in ancient China from enfeoffment system to prefecture and county system
is actually a significant change from “ grand unification”to “ grand centralization” . The prefecture and county
system,as a political system,originated from the political practice after the unification of China by the State of
Qin. However, under the enfeoffment system, the shier and county governments, as the first level governance in
stitutions,have long existed in various vassal states. The “ grand unification”does not specifically refer to the
autocratic monarchy system with the prefecture and county system as its content. In fact, the “ grand unification”
has been formally proposed before, and in fact, the “ grand unification”under the enfeoffment system is a cultur
al order and political symbol centered on the emperor of Zhou Dynasty. Although the Emperor of Zhou declined
slightly,he was still the source of the legitimacy of the power of the princes, so he was still at the center of the
“ world”and as the “ Lord of the world ” . The autocratic monarchy with prefecture and county system as its con
tent was called “ grand unification ”by later generations, but in fact, it was “ grand centralization”, which had
risen to a political system rather than a political symbol. This system has been implemented in the history of more
than 2000 years,although it was occasionally questioned. In other words,the “ grand centralization”of the
county system is not an inevitable choice of history, but a vertical power structure relationship maintained by re
peated games. As it is the governance logic of authoritarianism,this power structure relationship can only be a
passive interaction relationship subject to obedience.
〔 Key words〕ancient state governance; enfeoffment system; county system;grand unification; grand centraliza
tion
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