Large Household Governance:Political Resources Of The Zhang Family In Nie Village

In the traditional Chinese rural society,the state power is suspended in the "upper level ",and there are the marginal areas where the formal power in the governance system is difficult to reach between the upper and the lower levels of the governance system.In these marginal areas of governance,native folk authority such as family,squire,civil organization and so on as the main body of governance,filling the power space of governance edge.Nie village in western Henan province is located on the edge of the state formal governance system,and Nie village’s Wang family Zhang family is the rise of political forces in the marginal zone,and in the process of power formation,through the convergence of resource advantages,integration of power resources,become the governance authority of Nie village.No formal authorization in the State How can large households become the main body of village governance?What are the power resources on which large households can become the main body of village governance?How do large households use power resources for governance?Through the investigation and investigation of the origin of Nie village Zhang family,the author finds that there are five sources of power resources of Zhang family:first,the extension of family power to public power.The power of parents plays a role in the family,while the authority in the long run is regarded by the villagers as a feasible rule of doing things,the family rules and family instruction becomes the default village rules and regulations;the other is the power increase.Strong,powerful,high prestige,large forces can form mandatory power,"so-called arms can not twist the thigh ","forced by the power "to accept the governance of large households;third,public welfare authorization.Zhang family through participation and leadership of the village public welfare activities,gained the prestige of the leader,and when the beneficiaries evolved into followers,the villagers regarded the Zhang family as the dependence of safeguarding their own interests and enjoying public services;fourth,the authorization of agency administration.As a third party force between the local and the government,Zhang family has become the auxiliary force for the government to sink to the village in the national affairs such as conscription,taxation,financing and raising labor;fifthly,the transformation of social capital to power resources.The Zhang family has a wide social network,and the local bureaucrats and gentry form a political alliance,which becomes a channel for the folk to seek help from the administrative system,and the political demands of the people of Nie Village can only be uploaded to the bureaucratic political system through the Zhang family.Nie Cun Zhang Jia in the process of village management The combined power resources come down to two types:endogenous power resources and exogenous power resources.Zhang family in Nie village use power resources to manage the governance,adopted to follow the village background color of the code of conduct,through a series of power resources integration and management,consolidated the role of Zhang family in village governance.