Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship in Contemporary China  

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O'Brien, Kevin J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 27 no. 4 (Oct. 2001), page 407-435.
Topik: Contemporary China
Fulltext: 407MC274.pdf (105.72KB)

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More than five months had passed, but in December 1995, the oversized characters scrawled on a store front on Wangjiacun’s main street were still legible: “We’re citizens. Give us back our citizenship rights. We’re not rural labor power, even less are we slaves. Former village cadres must confess their corruption.” The village leadership had little doubt who was behind this infuriating graffiti namely, one of the twenty complainants who had accused Wangjiacun’s Communist Party secretary and his predecessor of engaging in graft but felt it was unwise to take any action. The corrupt cadres were said to be afraid that whitewashing the wall would only add fuel to the complaint and confirm their guilt. Instead, they would tough it out: they would refuse to turn over the accounts, stick with their story that the books had been destroyed in a fire, and wait for the summer rains to weather the charges away. But in the meantime, the allegations would stand unrebutted, there for all to see (Lianjiang Li, personal communication, July 1995; author’s observation, December 1995).

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