The Ram Union is a non-profit social organisation established in 2003 in Zhejiang Province. Its transformation from a local entity into an international NGO tells us about the methods implemented by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to accompany the development of popular associations or minjian, which appear to be external to the Party but which in fact are fully sponsored by it. Studying such organisations is a complex matter, as they appear to act in a benevolent and apolitical manner, while being completely integrated within the political and social apparatus of the Party-state (Youth League, volunteers, United Front, ministry of Civil Affairs, etc.). The historical trajectory of the Ram Union thus gives us insight into the CCP's overlooked strategy of hybridisation, involving mass organisations that came out of the revolutionary period and charitable groups embodying modern Chinese society. This strategy is designed to occupy the social arena and forestall the emergence of an autonomous Chinese civil society in the People's Republic of China (PRC) or among the Chinese diaspora overseas.
The Koxingans : Ming Legitimists in the China Sea or Thalassocratic Pippinids Zheng Chenggong, the lord with a royal name (Koxinga), is an ambiguous figure in the China Seas in the seventeenth century. His resistance to the Manchu invaders in the name of the Southern Ming is characterized by a military and trade regime subject to no actual authority. His family history over four generations (Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Jing, and Zheng Keshuang) nevertheless presents the possibility of outlining the idea that these so-called “Koxingans,” in claiming the potestas, the civil and military power, sought to acquire the auctoritas, the status of legitimate rule in the guise of dynastic loyalty. This question has already been studied in Europe, notably in the trajectory of the Pippinids, who succeeded in freeing themselves from their status as “mayor of the palace” or majordomo to found the Carolingian Dynasty in the eighth century. The present political hypothesis is drawn from this historical comparison.
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