Turning Left, Turning Right: The Transformations of Beijing Courtyard Houses under China''s Socialist Reformation
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Chang, Yu-Wei
Abstract
This research investigated how the Beijing courtyard houses were transformed into hodgepodge houses under China’s Socialist Reformation. After the civil war in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party still aroused several important political movements to consolidate the regime. Meanwhile, in the name of constructing Socialist Nation, those private Beijing courtyard houses were viewed as huge resources to dispose. By sophisticated ways, those fine courtyard houses were arranged for extra households overloadedly by the government, and gradually regarded even by the property owners as “public property”, therefore the Da Za Yuan (hodgepodge houses) were emerged decades after. As this paper concluded in the title, this is a period of “Turning Left”. After 1978, Deng’s policy brought the “Turning Right” phase. Accompanied by the “Opening and Reform”, those households and original property owners were stroke severely again. And the Beijing courtyard houses were facing another transforming battle. Based on in-depth interviews of Beijing local residents and a mass of published/unpublished documents, this paper explained how the transformation processes happened and the struggle between residents, property owners and government agents. eywords: Beijing, courtyard houses, transformation, Socialism, property rights
Subjects
Beijing
Court-yard Houses
Socialism
Property rights
Type
thesis
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