From the"Separation of Family and State"to the"Integration of Family and State":The Reconstruction Path of Village Publicness Oriented to Families
The relationship between the family and the state is an important indigenous perspective for understanding the loss and reformation of village publicness.In traditional communities characterized by familiar social ties,the ethical values within families and their extensions serve as the driving force for the construction of village publicness.The concept of the public and the private embedded in the family-centric approach is flexible,leading to a lack of effective communication channels between the construction of village publicness and the state's governmental structure.Modern efforts to construct village publicness have emphasized direct interactions between the state and farmers,aiming to establish administrative publicness through rational bureaucratic systems,overcoming the challenges posed by the public-private divide within families,thereby resulting in the erosion of village publicness.Current initiatives in the construction of village publicness should prioritize the inherent foundation of the family while emphasizing a rational bureaucratic system as a prerequisite and using the mass line as a bridge between rational bureaucratic governance and traditional family ethics.By building upon the foundation of administrative publicness,the realization of the"re-familialization"of village publicness is achieved.This re-familialization in the construction of village publicness leads to a transformation from the separation of family and state to their integration,overcoming the dilemma of traditional family ethics concerning the public-private divide and avoiding the formalism and inefficiency often associated with bureaucratic governance.
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