| In today's Xinjiang, there are virtually two governmental structures, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). The former is a normal ruling means adopted by the modern state, yet the latter is a particular organization combined with the triple functions of government, military and production. This dissertation explores to answer two questions: first, is there only a unique arrangement of governance structure adopted by the modern state? The author argues that a standard institution arrangement does not exist. While these different governance forms all serve to the integrity of sovereignty, state would choose a portfolio of governance styles implemented on the different areas. Not only different states could prefer multi-forms of governance, the diversity can also be observed in a single country. The case of XPCC just falls into one of these examples. Hence, what are the distinctiveness of this organization and how to elaborate its necessity? The second question is that under the ultimate purpose of safeguarding the sovereignty, how the governance forms vary accompanied by the internal and the external conditions in different historical times. In case of this study, changes happen to the XPCC. The author adopts the institutionalism to explain the genesis, expansion, abolishment and the rebuilding of the XPCC. |
