ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a tentative model that can give the outline of the rapidly changing Chinese society, and this model pays attention to a socio-structural logic which people compose for their daily lives. It discusses this tentative model through the field research conducted in Qingdao, Shandong Province. In a very short period of time, Qingdao developed an entirely new residential quarter in the rural area. In 2005, Qingdao's municipal government set up the "urban community committee" as the smallest unit of administrative organization in newly developed regions. There are 1,498 households registered in the village with a population of 4,072. It was designated to become a development area in 2001, which was followed by the reregistration of villagers who were then incorporated into the "urban household registration". The industrial corporation office of the community S was established to succeed a system in which village-run enterprises were jointly managed as one unit.
