Political Trust in Rural China

Li, Lianjiang

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“…Most of the population attaches different degrees of trustworthiness to different governmental levels, exhibiting a greater (or at least equal) degree of political trust in higher levels, than in lower levels (Li, 2004(Li, , 2008. Second, villagers' trust in the intent or competence of higher level governments, combined with their distrust in the lower levels of the Party-state hierarchy, explains why they turn to 'rightful resistance' or 'policy-based resistance', in order to defend their rights and interests.…”

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“…Second, villagers' trust in the intent or competence of higher level governments, combined with their distrust in the lower levels of the Party-state hierarchy, explains why they turn to 'rightful resistance' or 'policy-based resistance', in order to defend their rights and interests. Rightful resistance is a form of partly institutionalized, partly legitimate contention that involves the innovative use of laws, policies and other officially promoted values to defy 'disloyal' local officials, who violate state policies and laws and/or who refuse to recognise legal protections and privileges granted by the central government (Li 2004;O'Brien and Li 2006;Minzner, 2006). Collectively, policy-based resisters seek audiences with higher levels and lodge complaints against grassroots cadres, demanding 'the repeal of local policies, the removal of local emperors, and the lifting of illegal local impositions' (Li and O'Brien, 1996, p. 29).…”

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“…In the context of rural China, township government officials are the most significant authorities, who can directly intervene in the political and economic activities of villagers but are not subject to being elected into office by villagers. Second, focusing on the lowest tier of the Party-state hierarchy is pertinent in China's political context, because Chinese rural population tends to attach higher (or at least equal) levels of trustworthiness to the higher levels of government (Li, 2004(Li, , 2008.…”

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“…Because the traditional concept of political trust, which focuses on citizens' general attitudes toward an abstract government, cannot provide explanatory power to the village-level variation in autonomous civic associations, we resort to a refinement of the concept as appealed by Levi and Stoker (2000, pp. 495-6) and adapt it to the Chinese context in line with Li (2004Li ( , 2008. We examine the political attitudes of villagers towards their township governments and officials.…”

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“…Actually this story also confirms the pattern of behaviour of Chinese peasants (who comprise most Chinese labour and have economic incentives to work in Russia) discussed in scholarship concerning their high political trust in the Central government (represented in this case by the Chinese embassy in Minsk), and their demands to punish bad local Chinese entrepreneurs and to protect their rights and lives, expecting quick and just resolution from the Chinese state by personally appealing to an 'imperial envoy'. This general tendency of Chinese peasants to believe that the Centre is more trustworthy than all lower institutions was discussed in a number of scholarly articles on political trust in rural China (Li 2004;Tong 1998). …”

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Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

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Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia -the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra-and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders), but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities. Creative Commons License CC BY NC ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0) Series EditorsThe authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2018Some rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, any part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise). Breeze ' development, Vladivostok, 2013 190 Figure 13 The 'Eastern Breeze ' complex, Vladivostok, 2013 191 Figure 14 Chinese buyers scrupulously explore an old Chinese object put on sale at Sotheby's auction house in London, UK 212 Figure 15 Carl Fabergé's Easter egg, made predominantly of jade from a private collection of Viktor Vekselberg, the fourth richest person in Russia. The object is on display at special private museum in Saint-Petersburg, Russia 215 Figure 16 One of the Sunshine's operations. Guards reload raw jade to transport it across a river. Jade is on its way from mine to warehouse 219 Figure 17 Advertisement for a company offering help with on-line purchases in Manzhouli, China 241 List of Figures IntroductionTrusting and Mistrusting Across Borders Caroline HumphreyThis book is a collection of essays based on recent fieldwork along the Northeast frontier between Russia and China, 1 and it has two main aims that are closely interconnected. The first is to explore how trust and mistrust are negotiated in a situation beset with doubts and misunderstandings, in a border region where previously hostile states with very different histories, cultures, and languages face one another. The second is to suggest some ways in which these studies can contribute to understanding the import of trust and mistrust in small-scale economic activities. It should be added straight away that the book does not propose a theory of trust of its own to add to the numerous conceptualizations of this idea already available (Luhmann 1979;Gambetta 1988;Hosking 2010;Cook 2001; O'Neill 2002; Baier 2004;Hawley 2014). Rather, it provides anthropological ideas and ethnographic materials that will enable readers to explore and probe these models. What is new here is that, while the great majority of theories of trust assume that actors have a common back...

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Political Trust in Rural China

Cited by 73 publications

References 54 publications

Challenging, complementing or assuming ‘the Mandate of Heaven’? Political distrust and the rise of self-governing social organizations in rural China

Challenging, complementing or assuming ‘the Mandate of Heaven’? Political distrust and the rise of self-governing social organizations in rural China

Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

What Shapes Citizens' Evaluations of Their Public Officials' Accountability? Evidence From Local Ethiopia

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