Figures
0.1 The state-individual transformation: in a case study of the inner city renewal and urban social movement 18
0.2 Levels of analysis of subjectivity 23
1.1 Hu Yamei, an NPC delegate showed the “Special Letter of Accusation” to the Ninth National People’s Congress. Photograph by Li Ge, “Democracy and Supervision” photo-reportage, People’s Daily, 17 March 1999 55
2.1 “Bulletin of House/Land Registration” by the Land Registry of the People’s Government of City P (Xinmin News Daily of City P, 4 June 1951). Source: Collected by Mdm. HuaXinmin and from an interview 70
2.2 Reconstructed Street C (New Times Shopping Mall in the center), photo’s taken on 28 October 2014 91
2.3 Location of some relocation neighborhoods in City P. Source: Fang Ke (2000: 44) 93
3.1–3.2 Registration of land ownership of 1939 (28th year of the Republic of China) (provided by the interviewee and photo’s taken on 1 August 2006) 103
3.3–3.4 House/Land Certificate and blueprint issued by Land Registry of the People’s Government of City P (1951). Source: Collected by Mdm. HuaXinmin and from an interview 104
3.5 Deed of purchase of 1950 (provided by the interviewee and photo’s taken on 21 August 2005) 105
3.6 The public area outside a resettlement community (photo’s taken on 13 July 2006) 123
3.7 Exterior of buildings inside the above resettlement community (photo’s taken on 13 July 2006) 124
3.8 Apartment doors perpendicular to each other (photo’s taken on 13 July 2006) 124
3.9 Plan of altered apartments (apartment doors indicated in blue and pink) 125
3.10 Plan of the original design (apartment door indicated in blue) 125
3.11–3.12 Interior wall of an apartment for resettlement (photo’s taken on 29 April 2006) 126
3.13 Reconstruction developer at the core of various relationships in “real estate development-driven reconstruction of dilapidated houses”. Source: Drawn by m based upon the letter of accusation submitted by the evicted residents from Block No. 5, District C, to the Anti-Malfeasance Office under the People’s Procuratorate of City P (2007) 130
4.1 Two different types of Central-local-individual relationship 139
5.1 “Selective firming” of self-boundary and differentiation of social structure 168
6.1–6.2 Evolution of textual forms (the left written in about 1995 and the right in 2010) 197
6.3 Return receipts for the registered letters of accusation 200
7.1 State-individual relationship: transition-oriented analytical framework 214
Tables
1.1 Stages of Development of the Grand Litigation (1995–2011) 3
1.2 List of written statements submitted by the Grand Litigation group (1999–2011) 62
2.1 Residential and commercial/financial land in District C over the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Five-Year Plan periods 91
3.1 Transfers of state-owned land use right in C1992–2002 116
4.1 Two ideal types of state-individual relationship in Chinese context 137