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