Abstract

As manifested in the course of the establishment of the neighborhood committee, the position of Peng Zhen is almost identical with the official position formed in the process of collecting opinions within the Party rather than in the individual. Changes such as stressing the importance of a third-grade regime format and a street government during the Northern Bureau period, emphasizing the role of a public security police agency before and after the founding of the country, and again citing the need to organize “street residents” after 1951, can be seen as revealing the process of trial and error that the whole party and the nation went through collectively rather than confrontation of positions. The meaning of the change in the position of the Communist Party of China, including Peng Zhen, on the way to the formation of the neighborhood committee will be found, at least once, from its years of experience in governing, by providing the form of organization to the ‘unorganized masses,’ or ‘street residents,’ which had the lowest priority of organizing among the ‘Masses’ outside the Party. The change has resulted in more aggressive governance by providing the form of organization for the entire urban population, and also in the process of the party’s influence spreading throughout society. But in the view of Peng Zhen and the Communist Party of China, such a change was made as a kind of temporary measure, predicting a gradual reduction of the ‘street residents’ rather than a purge of negative perceptions of ‘street residents’.

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