Wangkantou (mistakenly transcribed in some English web documents as Huankantou)
• “the sange daibiao [=three representatives] today are: Tang Yong’s personal power, the power of corrupt officials, and the interests of a small group”
• “if the Communist Party is so advanced, why does it need primitive weapons to kill people?”
• “A few people get rich 发财几个人
And poison the majority 毒害一大片
Please, Sir, think it over 请君想一想
These poison factories 这个毒集厂
Do you think they ought to move or not? 你想给办不给办 [ 给= 该 ]
Two Approaches to Understanding the events at Wangkantou in Huaxi
• Explaining events by appealing to historical circumstances
• Identifying the structure of relationship and explaining the structural tensions
Capital 京
Liang-zhe/Jiang-zhe/Zhe-jiang Province 道 / 路 / 省
Wu zhou, Jinhua fu (1368)Jinhua shi (today)
Lanxi, (Tangxi), Jinhua, Yiwu, Pujiang, Dongyang, (Pan’an),
Wuyi, Yongkang
e.g. Huaxi zhen 畫溪 in Dongyang
Prefecture 州 / 府(commandery 郡 , municipality 市 )
County 縣 (subrefecture, district)
Township/Town 鄉 / 鎮From Song on a territorial unit.
Township government begins in 20th c.
Villages (outside national bureaucracy)Wangkantou 王墈頭
Ideology and government
• Administrative cadres and Party Cadres
• Policy implementation and Policy formulation
• Government (zheng) and Education (jiao)
See Chapter 10 of the Prefectural Gazetteer
Capital 京
Liang-zhe/Jiang-zhe/Zhe-jiang Province 道 / 路 / 省
Wu zhou, Jinhua fu (1368)Jinhua shi (today)
Lanxi, (Tangxi), Jinhua, Yiwu, Pujiang, Dongyang, (Pan’an),
Wuyi, Yongkang
e.g. Huaxi zhen 畫溪 in Dongyang
Prefecture 州 / 府(commandery 郡 , municipality 市 )
County 縣 (subrefecture, district)
Township/Town 鄉 / 鎮From Song on a territorial unit.
Township government begins in 20th c.
Villages (outside national bureaucracy)Wangkantou 王墈頭
Recruiting local government staff
• Two methods:
a. Hire those needed
b. Obligate wealthy households to provide services
county
Township
Sector 都Literally “Guard”
“Plat” 圖Referring to a group of 110 households, from the chart at the front of the register
for a lijia unit in the Ming period; sometimes translated as “Ward”
Tax Systems
• Tax owed to the higher administrative levels, often set as a quota the county should collect. Since 1994 called “national taxes” -- “Guo shui” 國稅
• Tax that may be collected and used to fund local government. Since 1994 called “local taxes” -- “Di shui” 地稅