Policing grassroots China: revolution and order maintenance
Zhou, Lingxiao
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Description
Title
Policing grassroots China: revolution and order maintenance
Author(s)
Zhou, Lingxiao
Issue Date
2023-06-30
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Martin, Jeffrey
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Martin, Jeffrey
Committee Member(s)
Shao, Dan
Greenberg, Jessica
Wilson, Roderick
Department of Study
E. Asian Languages & Cultures
Discipline
E Asian Languages & Cultures
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Policing, grassroots, governance, revolution
Abstract
Based on the researcher’s fieldwork from 2021 to 2022 in Changshan County, Zhejiang Province, this dissertation examines how the Chinese party-state has reengineered revolutionary means to serve conservative ends through three intertwined projects – community policing, conflict management and COVID-19 management. Combining an analysis of policing institutions with considerations of the cultural dimensions of local governance in China, the researcher conducted in-depth ethnographic and historical research on three questions: First, what are longue durée continuities of Chinese policing and how have they interacted with revolutionary changes? Second, how does this revolution-born mode of policing actually operate in contemporary grassroots China? Third, what kinds of social and cultural logics are evident in the technologies of Chinese Grassroots Governance?
By examining the above questions, the researcher concludes that Chinese policing sustains a model of revolutionary policing as a departure from Anglo-American and European conventions,arguing that policing is a political project of creating new orders. The imprint of the above projects has produced three key features that characterize the policing institutions, including (1) the grassroots China has consistently maintained an “illiberal” political-legal orientation to organize a comprehensive management of social order, (2) the coupling of the archaic forms of revolutionary technologies and the emergent system of technological control sustains a nonconfrontational framework, institutionalizing revolutionary governmentalities for hierarchical scaling of disorders and subjects; (3) a mediation-centric conflict management repertoire in the context of contemporary stability maintenance that blurs the distinctions between the state and society, civil and criminal justice, policing and mediation.
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