Street Politics: Street Vendors and Urban Governance in China
Abstract Conflicts between urban street vendors and city regulators have become a common urban sight in Chinese cities today. This paper considers how visions of modern urban streets and sidewalks have helped to generate increasingly restrictive policies on street vending and spurred new forms of urban regulation and policing. While mostly an everyday routine of Chinese city life, the resulting vendor chengguan conflicts dramatize state power in public and carry the latent danger of crowd violence in response. In particular, aggressive policing of highly visible city streets can at times produce a volatile "politics of the street" involving episodes of vendor resistance and even dramatic expressions of bystander solidarity which challenge these street level expressions of state power. Zhai Yao Zai Zhong Guo Jie Tou Tan Fan Yu Cheng Guan Zhi Jian De Chong Tu Yi Jing Si Kong Jian Guan Ben Wen Tan Tao Da Zao Xian Dai Cheng Shi Dao Lu Xing Xiang Ru He Dao Zhi Geng Jia Yan Ge De Tan Fan Guan Zhi Zheng Ce Cu Cheng Xin Xing Shi De Cheng Shi Gui Hua He Guan Li Sui Ran Tan Fan Yu Cheng Guan Chong Tu Zai Zhong Guo Cheng Shi Sheng Huo Zhong Yi Jing Lu Jian Bu Xian Dan Shi Zhe Chong Chong Tu Jia Ju Liao Zheng Fu De Gong Gong Quan Li Dai Lai Liao Qun Zhong Bao Li Fan Kang De Qian Zai Wei Xian Te Bie Shi Dui Na Xie Zui Xing Mu De Cheng Shi Jie Dao De Qiang Li Guan Zhi You Shi Hou Ke Neng Hui Yin Qi Dong Dang Xing De "Jie Tou Zheng Zhi " Bao Gua Bai Tan Shang Fan Di Hong Fan Kang Shen Zhi Shi Kua Zhang De Pang Guan Zhe Tuan Jie Tiao Zhan Jie Dao Ji Bie De Xing Zheng Quan Li
The China Quarterly