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Disputes Resolution in Urban Communities in Contemporary China

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Authors:
  1. Jieren Hu

    1. Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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  • Offers a comprehensive overview of the social disputes and the diverse mechanisms of dispute resolution from the perspective of state-society relations
  • Applies theories of conflict resolution to the explanation of grassroots interaction and concrete cases in an authoritarian country such as China
  • Presents a key theoretical framework of "state-centered social pluralism" to identify the current state-society relations through the lens of dispute resolution in local communities
  • Provides a valuable resource for students of sociology and law, given that it is based on the author's Ph.D dissertation

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Urban Community Disputes and Mechanism of Dispute Resolution

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 1-21

  3. Methodology

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 23-34

  4. Conflict Theory and Conflict Handling Model

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 35-75

  5. Historical Background and Development Process of Dispute Resolution in China

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 77-102

  6. Dispute Resolution in Urban Community: Three Cases

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 103-146

  7. State-Society Cooperation in Dispute Resolution of Urban Community

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 147-171

  8. Methods and Skills of Social Organization Mediating Disputes

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 173-189

  9. Reality: Making Harmonious Community Work

    • Jieren Hu
    Pages 191-207

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 209-278
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About this book

This book explains the causes, process, and results of group disputes in urban communities (the empirical experiences from Shanghai) in China. It explores the means and characteristics of as well as the differences in conflict resolution in various forms of state–society relations, particularly the ways of dealing with and resolving disputes concerning mass incidents involving government interests in China’s current social transformation period. It also analyzes how people’s mediation organizations interact with the local government when managing and defusing collective disputes.


Combining the relevant theories and five conflict resolution measurement models created by Blake and Mouton (1964), this book explains the current interaction model and cooperation mechanism between the state and social organizations in China. To do so, it examines the role of the Lin Le People’s Mediation Workroom in dealing with community collective disputes and the respective action strategies and constraints. The book argues that the current state–social relations in China are not centered on society or the state, but on “state-led social pluralism.”


Authors and Affiliations

  • Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    Jieren Hu

About the author

Jieren Hu is an Associate Professor in the Law School at Tongji University. She is also the Research Fellow in the Center for Social Governance at Fudan University and the Visiting Scholar in the Center for China Studies at UC Berkeley. She got her Ph.D. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. Her major researches focus on dispute resolution, social governance, and state–church relations in Mainland China. She has published quite a number of books, journal papers including those in Asian Survey, Journal of Contemporary China, China Information, etc., and in many Chinese academic journals. In addition to academics, she is the “double-thousand” expert nominated by the State Council of China, the expert mediator of the Second Intermediary Court in Shanghai, and the Member of Hong Kong and Macao Law Association and Shanghai Law Society.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Disputes Resolution in Urban Communities in Contemporary China

  • Authors: Jieren Hu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8644-6

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Shanghai People's Publishing House 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8643-9Published: 07 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8646-0Published: 07 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8644-6Published: 06 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 278

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Social Work and Community Development, Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration

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