Abstract
AbstractThis article examines the processes, mechanisms, and outcomes of tie-based village life in W Township in north China through an ethnographic lens and explores how bonding in community networks influences villagers in the context of the emerging Chinese market economy and increasing social stratification in their home villages. While responsive village communities, based on family and personal ties, protect villagers in the postsocialist political economy and provide some public welfare programs, they limit the means and scope of villager resistance to the powerful in the countryside in search of social justice. This article suggests that the rights-based perspective that focuses on institutional equality and democratic participation needs to be integrated into the decentralized community-based approach to welfare, which has gained in popularity in both academic writing and social policy practices since the late twentieth century, to fulfill the potential of communities in building a just world.
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