Structural changes and internal vortex of county political power in the Republic of China——Centered on the case of Chen Hanxiong in Yingshan County,Hubei Province in 1946
In 1946,a vicious case occurred in Yingshan County of northern Hubei Province,in which the county magistrate Chen Hanxiong killed county senator Huang Ke. By combing the original files left by the case,we can see that the county magistrate's power was centralized and strengthened at that time. The county Senate and the party group should have supervised each other with the county government's power,but in fact,the county magistrate integrated the administrative,legislative,judicial and supervisory powers,which made it difficult for the Senate and others to effectively supervise and restrict the county magistrate's power. They even competed and struggled for power within the county. The tragic ending of Chen Hanxiong's case is the manifestation of this intensified contradiction. From this case,we can see that the system design of the national government is far from the reality of local governance,and its system alienation under the pressure of civil war also makes its"local autonomy"farther and farther away from the road of democracy.
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