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  • 5 - Property

  • from Part II - A Tale of Three Cities
  • Shitong Qiao, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    The Authoritarian Commons
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025, pp 61-82

  • Summary

    The homeowners’ movements in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen differ by both the scope of their property rights claims and the concomitant ways in which they claim those rights. The leading homeowners in Beijing are political entrepreneurs, devoting themselves more to systemic change and even Chinese democracy than to the self-governance of their individual neighborhoods. The leading homeowners in Shenzhen are social entrepreneurs who navigate through the social, legal, and bureaucratic maze to claim absolute homeownership sovereignty. The defining characteristic of homeowners in Shanghai is respect for laws and rules.