Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.2753/csa0009-4625400200
Zhu Jiangang
Since the 1990s, with the reform of the market economy system, urbanization, and the impact of globalization, urban communities are being reconstructed and renewed at an unprecedented rate. In the process of rapid economic development, the relatively sluggish social administration has also brought about an increasingly tense relationship among urban residents, the state, and real estate developers. Facing large numbers of problems such as pollution, forced removal, building management charges, and land occupation, residents are not only appealing to local government, but are also beginning to organize themselves, taking collective action to defend their residential rights. Academics are now increasingly paying more attention to the study of these actions defending homeowners’ rights. The three articles in this issue focus on action strategy, culture frame, and value justification in movements in defense of homeowner rights. In the case of Lijiang Garden, Guangzhou, studied by Zhu Jiangang and Wang Chao, senior homeowners alternately used strategies of authentication and challenge to wrestle with a real estate management company, trying to organize a homeowners’ committee and participate in community governance. Behind their strategies were two sets of cultural logic: family and legitimacy. In the study of the case of West Passage, Rear Sea Division, Shenzhen city, Liu Chun used justification modes to discuss the six concepts of homeowners’ values in their actions in defense of their rights as well as the process of growth and decline in these six values. Zhu Jiangang’s study on the fight for
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Pub Date : 2007-09-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625400104
Zhou Daming
On the basis of related literature and the author's field research in Jiangxi province, the present article discusses the process of ethnic group reconstruction and identification of the She people with the family names of Lan, Lei, and Zhong in the Gannan region of Jiangxi province, who were restored as members of the She ethnic group from their original Han ethnic group after ethnic policies were carried out in 1985. The author puts forward his personal opinions on the factors of ethnic identity and the two schools of theory on ethnic identification, namely primordialism and circumstantialism.
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Pub Date : 2007-09-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625400105
Zhou Jian-xin
The World Hakka Conference started in 1971 and has been held by rotation system across the world ever two or three years ever since. So far twenty conferences have been held. As the interest in Hakka culture increases, the World Hakka Conference has evolved from simply a grand reunion and association (reporting sessions among various villages) into the cultural (large-scale entertainment and performance, art and literature, cuisine), academic (International Conference on Hakka Studies), economic (business and trade talks), and political (United Front work) spheres. It is not only an important carrier for the Hakka to maintain bonds of friendship with other villages and enhance multinational and multiregional interaction, but also a platform and arena for pluralistic ethnic group identification and cultural production in the new era. In recent years, in particular, there has been fierce competition in the bidding to host the World Hakka Conference, which attracts thousands of attendees and involves elaborate planning and careful implementation. The trade talks at the conference are worth tens of billions of dollars. Some state leaders are present at the conferences and the host provincial and municipal governments always go all out to make them successful. The conference has experienced increasing and steady growth in scale, content, and standards. In the eyes of the Hakka both at home and abroad, the World Hakka Conference is not unlike the Olympic Games in terms of status and influence. From the perspective of anthropological theory on ethnic groups, nongovernment (folk) movements and group events like the World Hakka Conference represent the cultural consciousness and ethnic group identification of the Hakka people in their pursuit of survival and development in the context of globalization. The conference attributes its changes and development to strategic utilization by various forces and is a creation and reinvention of the traditional culture. It involves the processes of ethnic group identification and cultural production on several different levels.
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Pub Date : 2007-09-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA00094625400103
Sam Wong
This article questions the economic perspective of institutions and the uncritical approach to using local organizations and leaders. It argues that the instrumental approach of socially embedded institutions for enhancing project efficiency and political legitimacy disregards the existing unequal structures of authority within communities. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's notion of "symbolic power," the author argues that local elites make use of collective rituals and cultural symbols to legitimatize their rule. Reinvention of traditions also places the poor at a disadvantage because they lack sufficient knowledge to draw upon "community wisdom" to make claims and counterclaims. The romanticization of socially embedded institutions also plays down the dark side. A high level of trust can reduce transparency, making nepotism possible. The livelihoods of the poor, being built upon these exploitative relationships, also hinder them from challenging the inequalities.
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Pub Date : 2007-09-01DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625400101
Huang Mingwen
One day in July 2002, we went to Yangdu village in Luoping township of Wuning county on a research and study tour for the comprehensive agricultural development program. We found that we could not understand the villagers as they were speaking among themselves. It was neither the dialect spoken in northern Jiangxi province nor Mandarin. In answer to our inquiry, they told us it was “the language of the She people.” This aroused my curiosity. Further investigation revealed that this village is a settlement of immigrants from Zhejiang province. Not only have the villagers preserved the language and customs of the She, but they have also maintained close connections with other immigrants of the She ethnic group from their hometown. Not only can the second generation of these immigrants speak the She language, but their wives married from the Han ethnic group and the Han people scattered in the village can also speak the She language. This set me thinking. After living for so long on an “island of immigrants” encircled by the Han, why
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