Community Gulf And Conflict In Chaoshan Rural Distric

Based on the 3-year fieldwork at "He" village in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province as the typical rural community in Chaoshan district, the thesis describes and analyses the community gulf and conflict between local colony and migrant workers, focuses on how the gulf came to being, developed into violent conflict, and then transformed into cold conflict and long-time gulf. Finally, the thesis gives some advice about how to rebuild the "He" village's system.The thesis finds that due to the maladjustment of community interaction, which was caused by the cultural conflict and the local community's generally accepted view toward the migrant workers and the exclusiveness on the basis of the tainted reputation of the migrants, it was the internal identity of the migrant workers that lead to the primary gulf between them and the local community. Henceforth, based on the imagination of the existence of distinct treating, the migrant workers have strengthened feelings of deprivation, sense of unity and sense of organization and thus violent conflicts were caused. Under the intentional guiding of power and capital, this kind of dominant conflicts was again transformed into cold conflicts--soft capital controlling strategies, separate distant management and the implement of so-called community care measures decrease the violent conflicts but with the roots of the conflicts of interest continuing to exist in a more tempered way. Subsequently, the local community, granted with the legal and legitimate rights by the Village Agreement and other system resources, further realized the strengthening of status and promotion of identities and thus increased the gaps between communities and pushed the separation and gaps to be permanent existence. However, the loss of the migrant workers' interests was blamed to individual faults, but not to the lack of the community benefits. Ultimately, the root of community gulf and conflict is the unequal power structure and resources distribution system. Combination of the local government management and the autonomy, reference of the concept of New Kunshan, institutional arrangements and creation of the cultural integration could be the three dimensions to reform the community system.