Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Family-State Relationship and Familial Order in People''s Republic of China

• Main Authors: Chao Lian, 連超
• Other Authors: 陳明通
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99g5mr

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 106 === During 1950s-1970s, traditional Chinese families were deliberately suppressed by the CCP. Family instructions and family precepts were built to maintain and expand families, thus they were regarded as "feudalistic dregs". However, since 2014, the CCP launched a campaign called "building family instructions, inheriting family precepts, and establishing family values", and there is a U-turning of policy. The aim of this thesis is to find out causes, characteristics, and significances of this campaign. This thesis started from researching family-state relationship and familial order of Ming and Qing China, and found out that the state continuously tried to control internal affairs of families, but often fail because of the weak power. On the contrary, the state often relies on family while governing. Since the late-Qing, traditional Chinese families were subjected to various critiques, and became the root of suppressed personality in the imagination of PRC people. These thoughts converged with communism which advocates annihilating private ownership of property, and formed the CCP''s countermeasure for dealing with traditional families, which is principally a mixture of critiques, suppress of authorities, and change of order. Though the traditional familial order was destroyed, the new order was not well developed. During this period, Chinese economic reform eased restrictions of ideology, while feminist movements weakened male''s power and prestige of patriarchs, family planning and modernization led to parents'' pampering their children and disregarding of rules and rationally, and families were threw into disorder. At the same time, excess propaganda of models of sacrificing familial interests for the state''s good brought PRC people impressions that interests of state and family are antithetical. When facing alternatives between family and the state, most people choose family which holds deep affection without principles. This makes families became motivation and routes of corruption, and this kind of corruption is called "familial corruption". High rates of "familial corruption" brought out the CCP''s realization that families out of control harms the state, and the CCP wants to improve them. In Xi Jinping''s new era, the state applies new ways of propaganda, which redefine family-state relations and features of traditional family instructions, so that PRC families will be under the Party''s family instructions based on party disciplines and laws, and the Party''s patriarch who is the most loyal to the Party in the family, so that they will become a kind of governing tool with functions of education, propaganda, and supervision.