Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2010, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (2): 215-234.

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Analysis of the Validity and Limit of “Individualistic Resistance” from the Subaltern Society in Contemporary China: A Report from the HIVRidden Villages in Hubei Province and Henan Province

Wang Hongwei,The Center for Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development of Henan University   

  1. Wang Hongwei,The Center for Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development of Henan University
  • Online:2010-03-20 Published:2010-03-20

Abstract:

Through the investigation of resistance of those in the AIDS villages in the HIVridden areas in Hubei province and Henan province, the author proposes two kinds of sociologic logics of social resistance in the subaltern society of contemporary China: externally relied “rulebased resistance” and internally relied “individualistic resistance.” They have both become the most convincible sociologic analysis frames to account for the social resistance in the current Chinese subaltern society yet they differ in logics. This paper originally examines the formation mechanism and operating rules of the “individualistic resistance” mode, which leads to the discovery of the trends of nonpolitics, weak organization, and tangiblebenefit focus in the resistance in the rural subaltern society, making “organized” political protests up to a revolutionized turn far away from the reach.

 

Key words: peasant movement, instigation, mobilization, anarchism, league of ten, subaltern studies, AIDS villages, rulebased resistance, body resistance