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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/neighborhood-space-1950s-beiji
 ng-urban-governance-early-prc/
SUMMARY:Neighborhood Space in 1950s Beijing: Urban Governance in the Early 
 PRC
DESCRIPTION:\n	Park Sang-Soo (Professor\, Department of History\, Korea Uni
 versity\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/discussant: Anthony Saich (Daewoo 
 Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School)\n\n	Co-sponso
 red with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	Through an analysis
  of the early urban administration building process\, the formation of nei
 ghborhood space\, the connotation of “autonomy” (zizhi) of Residents
 ’ Committees (RCs)\, and problems of governmental leadership in carrying
  out street work\, this talk attempts to redefine the state-society relati
 onship in 1950s Beijing at the neighborhood level\, appropriating the conc
 ept of “governance” instead of the conventional “state control” ap
 proaches which are\, to a certain extent\, based on the totalitarian model
 . The term “governance\,” widely used in academia over the past decade
 \, is essentially defined as state-society cooperation as opposed to the e
 xisting state-society dichotomy and its contradictory relationship. This m
 ore detailed and thorough investigation into the discrepancies between sta
 te intention and the reality of its own conditions\, based on new material
 s preserved in the Beijing Municipal Archives\, reveals a different landsc
 ape from the state’s strict control system in which governmental organiz
 ations seamlessly reached the lowest level of society. The strengthened re
 ach of state power over urban society in the 1950s materialized not by coe
 rcive control through the expansion of the organs of state to the basic le
 vels of society\, but by governance through which positive societal respon
 ses to and cooperation with state policy could be put into place.\n\n	 
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