Grassroots Organizing in China: The Residents' Committee as a Linking Mechanism Between the Bureaucracy and the Community

1988 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bong-ho Mok
Keyword(s):  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Residents Committee

scholarly journals The EACTS Residents Committee

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü ◽  
Matthias Siepe ◽  
Miia Lehtinen
Keyword(s):  
Residents Committee

Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing

2021 ◽  
pp. 0920203X2110128
Author(s):  
Zhenjie Yang ◽  
Guilan Zhu ◽  
Linda Chelan Li ◽  
Yilong Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Prevention And Control Measures ◽  
And Control ◽  
Residents Committee

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a lockdown of Wuhan, and strict control was imposed in many major Chinese cities, including the national capital of Beijing. Residents’ committee workers at the grass-roots level have played a critical role in the enforcement of the government’s pandemic prevention and control measures, through their day-to-day service and surveillance as local community managers. This article examines their work in Wuhan and Beijing neighbourhoods during the most critical periods of the outbreak, from late January to June 2020, and the challenges the workers faced as executors of the government’s community-based prevention policy. The two cities have developed different community strategies because of very different epidemiological situations and city functions.

The Literary Politics of Harmonization and Dissonance

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-268
Author(s):  
Stephen Poland
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Japanese Empire ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Cooperative Movement ◽  
Literary Politics ◽  
The People ◽  
Dominant State ◽  
The Hamlet

In 1941, the writer Nogawa Takashi (1901-1944) was both nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in Japan and arrested in Manchukuo for his involvement in the Cooperative Movement (gassakusha undō) in rural north Manchuria. This dissonance between the literary recognition of Nogawa in the imperial metropole and his tragic fate—he died in prison three years after his arrest—marks him as an emblematic figure of the complexities of Manchukuo and the Japanese empire. Drawing on Naoki Sakai’s concept of heterolingual address, this chapter examines how Nogawa’s short story “The People Who Go to the Hamlet” (“Tonzu ni iku hitobito”) narratively stages ethnic interaction in the Cooperative Movement as a process of articulation between individuals in order to explore the (im)possibility of cross-class, cross-ethnic alliance. In contrast with the dominant state metaphor of “ethnic harmony” as a state of being between different peoples, Nogawa’s fiction both portrays and performs acts of “harmonization” and dissonance through grassroots organizing in a way that acknowledges the reality of class and ethnic difference, while also scrutinizing these differences and maintaining their possible permeability.

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