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  • 1 - Between Revolution and Law

  • from Part I - Property
  • Edited by Daniel Leese, University of Freiburg, Amanda Shuman, University of Freiburg
  • Book:
    Justice After Mao
    Published online:
    31 August 2023
    Print publication:
    14 September 2023, pp 23-44

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the reclamation of property rights in the 1980s at a local state-owned enterprise in eastern Shanxi. It draws on previously unexamined company archives and local government documents to trace how descendants of Shanxi’s “small capitalists” petitioned the government to recognize their ownership and redeem the loss of private property when the new communist government had nationalized the factory without compensation in the early 1950s. The chapter highlights the tensions in administering historical justice in a transitional environment, where a mix of revolutionary practices, family traditions, and modern law came to shape the procedures, capacity, and legitimacy of a socialist state.