Abstract: This paper uses a case of an expropriation and resettlement dispute of a large urban family to show how monetization of expropriation and resettlement can break the existing pattern of family property division and force new separation arrangements. The study reveals that the monetary demolition compensation introduces a process by which the non -divisible "family possession" of the entire shared livelihood arrangement becomes the divisible and value-added "family assets".
The process can also cause the reverse actions of "family." Under certain internal politics and opportunities, different family political structures formed previously are being renegotiated. The bodily facts happened during the negotiation drive the direction of the dispute, upon which the "moral accusation" itself becomes a new action to start a new round of family politics, creating new moral bargaining chips. The competitive structure of internal boundaries, maintained by the different roles of family members such as wives, married daughters, fathers, sons and brothers, in turn becomes the framework and dominant logic of monetary compensation criterion. "Legal basis" has thus become an auxiliary tool for judging family political history and a reference for guiding different family members to modify their compensation goals. The demolition agents are thus compelled to learn about the uniqueness of each family and become insinuated into family affairs. Agents' negotiation skills and their knowledge of the demolition policy are used to advantage in intervention in family politics. As a result, the monetized compensation practice has actually become an ethical political process.

Key words: urbanization, monetization, family -property division, family politics, ethical politics