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猢狲子 husunzi"革命家是美猴王" June 24 unblocked by cybercops?I pretty much stopped using this b/c it seemed to have been blocked by "big mama" aka the prc cyberpatrol aka the great firewall. At least I had a lot of trouble accessing it for the past few months. So I've been using facebook, & yesterday i just set up a twitter account. I'm getting ready to travel for a couple months, so probably won't be online much at all until august or so. We'll see where things stand when the time comes. March 28 series on "patterns of rural governance" publishedThe central China school of rural studies (华中乡土派) recently completed a series of 16 books on "patterns of rural governance in China" (中国村治模式实证研究丛书), edited by He Xuefeng & published by Shandong People's press in January 2009. This series is partly modeled on Fei Xiaotong's project on "the comparison of types" of Chinese villages, but it is organized around the central China school's framework of "rural governance" (or "village governance") & its "regional patterns." The series consists of 15 village studies by different scholars (mainly grad students at the Center for Research on Rural Governance at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, a few more established scholars) & one collection of several shorter village studies by He Xuefeng. In all the series deals with 15 villages in 11 provinces, and, within the general framework of "rural governance," it examines such issues as official & unofficial village organizations & decision-making & their relationship with the state, mechanisms of villager cooperation, the supply of public goods & services (water, roads, health care, schooling, etc.), varying & changing forms of land tenure, the transformation of familial structure & peasant values, welfare of the elderly, and the impact of labor migration & market forces. By this summer I aim to write English & Chinese reviews of Wang Ximing's book from this series, Village Community Governance on the Western Sichuan Plain: A Study of Jing Village, Luojiang County (川西平原的村社治理：四川罗江县井村调查). For now you can see an English translation of an article related to the book here, and a Chinese overview of the book here. (Also see the just-published English translation of another article by Wang Ximing here.) By fall I aim to write English & Chinese reviews of the series as a whole, or at least something dealing with other books in the series. I would like to find one or two people to collaborate on this project. Each of us could choose a few books to read, & then we could write a review together. Contact me if you're interested. The Chinese introduction to the series is here. See Chinese Sociology & Anthropology 41(1), fall 2008,
for Alexander Day's introduction about the central China school of
rural studies & a translation of several related articles: Chen
Baifeng's article on Liwei village is related to the book he co-wrote
for the series (number 14 below), He Xuefeng's article is the first
English text introducing the central China school's theory of "rural
governance" & its "regional patterns," & the other three
articles put this kind of research into the historical context of
Chinese political studies & intellectual politics.Below is the list of titles with my rough translation of them (please let me know if I made any mistakes): March 26 new on csg I'm finally able to connect to this msn space for the first time in a couple months, & also have a _little_ free time & some things to say, so may start blogging here again. First, let it be repeated that CSG moved to Chinastudygroup.net like two years ago. Someone forgot to pay to renew the .org domain name, & during the brief interim some asshole bought chinastudygroup dot org & began using it to make money off advertising. Now it gets a lot of traffic & comes up first if you google "chinatudygroup," & high on the list if you google husunzi & some other things. A lot of websites still list links to the old url, apparently not knowing that CSG moved long ago. So I'm repeating this here for what it's worth. Also, in case you didn't know, Chinastudygroup.net was recently unblocked by the Chinese internet police. The second issue of China Left Review will come out soon, focusing on the economic crisis. There hasn't been much activity on CSG, but here are a few recent cross-posts & announcements: 1. Seniors' organizations in China's new rural reconstruction: experiments in Hubei and Henan
by Wang Ximing | published in: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies {Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2009, pages 138-153, translated by Matthew A. Hale} Report on New Rural Reconstruction experiments with elderly people's associations in villages in Hubei & Henan, with introduction on NRR in relation to the "new socialist countryside" campaign & the rise of "the three rural issues." {By the way, Wang Ximing's new book, a study of a village in the Chengdu Plain area, was recently published by Shandong People's Press as part of a 16-book series on "patterns of village governance" edited by He Xuefeng. One of these days I'll write an announcement about this series, then a review of the WXM book, & _perhaps_ eventually some kind of review of the series as a whole. See a Chinese overview of WXM's book here. The title is Village Community Governance on the Western Sichuan Plain: A Study of Jing Village, Luojiang County (川西平原的村社治理：四川罗江县井村调查). The series is called 中国村治模式实证研究丛书 - see the list of titles here, the series introduction here. [While looking that up, I was surprised to run across Hairong Yan's 2005 Dushu article on "the emaciation of the rural" - it was only just added to SNZG a few days ago.]} 2. Crisis in China by gongchao | originally published in: prol-position 15 mar
Analysis of economic crisis in China, translated from the new German project Gongchao 3. Current crisis regime and impact on class struggle in India by Gurgaon Workers News | originally published in: Gurgaon Workers News 1 feb Class analysis of unfolding economic crisis in India, historical background & prospects 4. Breakdown of a relationship? Reflections on the crisis by Endnotes | originally published in: Radical Perspectives on the Crisis 21 oct Comparison of present financial crisis with previous crises & its significance for the relation between capital & labor, from UK-based communist journal endnotes.org.uk . 5. Beyond the Peasant International by wildcat | originally published in: wildcat 1 aug
Analysis of the situation of "peasants," agro workers & migrant
workers in relation to global capitalism today in comparison with
earlier turning points; "semi-proletarianization" as dominant trend;
assessment of new transnational agrarian movements as "second front
line" of anti-capitalist struggle. Detailed analysis of India, Latin
America & La Via Campesina; how could this be related to "the
agrarian question" in China? (Translated from Wildcat no. 82, August
2008)
6. Taxi Drivers Strike and Want To Set Up Their Own Associations
Translation of two Chinese articles on the recent taxi driver strikes
in Sanya & Chongqing.
January 02 Jalan: A journal of Asian LiberationJalan Journal is an independent journal written by a multiracial collective of activists who work toward the liberation of Asian peoples from the forces of racism, empire and neo-colonialism. Asians are Pakistani, Iraqi, Afghani, Korean, Cambodian, Chinese, Palestinians and countless other faces. We are gender-bending men and women, queer and straight. We are fierce and loving. We are what the racists fear. Many of us are also here in the United States. This journal seeks to promote discussion and provide linkages, to
remember the past so as to build for the future. We hope to discuss the
struggles of Asian-American peoples in the United States from an
anti-racist and democratic perspective in order to build solidarity
among our communities and with working folks in Asia. We combat the
historical and political roots of the model minority myth that has
functioned to divide Asians from other working class people of color,
both in the US and internationally. We also critically oppose the
statist and oppressive versions of pan-Asian liberation found in
Maoism, Bandungism and the Japanese empire of yesteryear. EditorialsAsians Against White Supremacy: On the origins of anti-Asian racism and how we have fought back Stop Dividing the Korean nation: A vision of unity from below ArticlesRebel Desis of the Hip Hop generation ¡Ya Basta! Reflections on Asian and Latino workers in the immigrant rights movement Retrieving an Asian American Anarchist Tradition Book ReviewDecember 31 central china school of rural studies (华中乡土派) Hot off the press from M.E. Sharpe, the latest edition of Chinese Sociology & Anthropology: Fall 2008 Vol. 41 No. 01 The Central China School of Rural Studies Guest Editors: Alexander Day Wayne State University & Matthew A. Hale University of Washington
From the introduction: “The central China school
of rural studies,” a multidisciplinary current, emerged in the late
1990s among rural sociologists, anthropologists, and political
scientists studying at the Center for Chinese Rural Studies at
Huazhong Normal University (CCRS). The name “Huazhong xiangtupai”
(hereafter “the central China school”) became attached to them
after a critical review of their work (translated in this issue of
Chinese Sociology and Anthropology) was published in 2005.
Disagreements among scholars attached to CCRS led He Xuefeng, Wu Yi,
and others to leave CCRS and found the Center for Research on Rural
Governance (CRRG) at Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
where the central China school is now largely based. The school has
provoked debate not only on the condition of rural Chinese society
and rural policy, but also on the direction of rural studies itself.
Reflecting on Chinese rural studies and influenced by the work of Fei
Xiaotong, the school has pushed for the construction of a Chinese
understanding of contemporary rural society and its transformation,
one it believes can be formed only through intensive ethnographic
research. [...] |
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