《中国基层社会自治》是用政治社会学的研究方法，全面解析1949年新中国成立后基层社会结构变迁的一幅工笔画长卷。阅后新奇扑面，处处有一种新鲜感。

第一，删繁就简，高度浓缩了中外名家关于基层社会的基本观点及其真知灼见，作为立论的由头，言简意赅，虽不穷形极状，却也使人一目了然。例如，讲“基层社会自治”，免不了要追溯它的“历史基础”，用“帝制时期”、“乡绅自治”之类概念，轻松转换为“集权制”下“代理治理”。巧妙越过乡里制度、保甲制度等种种乡村社会治理权力的门坎，单刀直入，直接叙说“基层社会治理”的现代化过程，提纲挈领，层次分明。这在林林总总探讨中国基层社会自治的著作中，独树一帜，令人刮目相看。

第二，剥笋的方法被广泛应用于各层次的论列之中，并已成全书理论展现的基本路径。无论是乡村治理，还是社区治理；抑或是底层社会的权利、文化与制度变迁，还是城乡治理体系的重建，都是从乡村治理的结构形式、组织形式以及村民自治与基层社会自治的区别与联系入手，厘清治理主体范畴并做出相应改革，以实现基层社会治理的现代转型。这其中也包括科层治理领域、社群治理领域和市场治理领域的各自专有的理论根据、基本原则、组织结构、协调方式和控制机制等。层层相因，环环相扣，鞭辟入里，头头是道。

第三，贵在创新，不落俗套。面对变革的社会，重构基层社会自治，没有普世价值可循。不能用“西方社会自治形态”来判断和衡量中国的社会自治。因为用个人权利来衡量社会自治，必须从社会的基本价值和基础结构出发，而且不能脱离中国的历史文化资源和现实的政治、经济、社会发展条件。要充分注意社会自治所具有的民族共同体的制度文化特性，防止把西方社会的社会自治的利益组织化形式和结构形态作为“样板”，要中国削足适履。

作者“笼天地于形内，挫万物于笔端”，站在中国基层社会自治研究的前沿，以创新为务，对社会自治的治理、转型、秩序诸问题，都做了不一样的阐释，发人深省，具有创新意义。用班固评司马迁的话说，“其文直，其事核，不虚美，不隐恶”。——真学问也！

是为序。

白钢

2017年7月22日 大暑

"Grassroots Social Autonomy in China" is a long scroll that uses the research methods of political sociology to comprehensively analyze the changes in the structure of grassroots society after the founding of New China in 1949. After reading it, the novelty is full of novelty, and there is a sense of freshness everywhere. First, it is simplified and simplified, highly condensing the basic views and insights of Chinese and foreign masters on grassroots society, and as the starting point for the argument, the words are concise and concise, although they are not exhaustive, but they are also clear to people. For example, when talking about "grassroots social autonomy", it is inevitable to trace its "historical foundation" and easily transform concepts such as "imperial period" and "gentry autonomy" into "agency governance" under "centralized system". It skillfully crosses the threshold of various rural social governance powers, such as the township system and the armor protection system, and directly describes the modernization process of "grassroots social governance", with a clear outline and clear levels. This is unique and impressive among the many works that discuss China's grassroots social autonomy. Second, the method of stripping bamboo shoots has been widely used in various levels of discussion and has become the basic path of theoretical display in the book. Whether it is rural governance, or community governance; Whether it is the rights, culture and institutional changes of the underlying society, or the reconstruction of the urban and rural governance system, it is all from the structural form, organizational form of rural governance and the difference and connection between villagers' autonomy and grassroots social autonomy, clarify the scope of governance subjects and make corresponding reforms, so as to realize the modern transformation of grassroots social governance. This also includes the respective proprietary theoretical basis, basic principles, organizational structure, coordination methods and control mechanisms in the field of bureaucratic governance, community governance and market governance. Layers of causes, interlocking with each other, whipping into the inside, the head is the Tao. Third, you are innovative and not conventional. In the face of a society of change, there is no universal value to follow in reconstructing grassroots social autonomy. China's social autonomy cannot be judged and measured by "Western forms of social autonomy". Because to measure social autonomy by individual rights, we must start from the basic values and infrastructure of society, and cannot be separated from China's historical and cultural resources and actual political, economic and social development conditions. It is necessary to pay full attention to the institutional and cultural characteristics of the national community that social autonomy has, and prevent the form of the organization and structural form of social autonomy in Western society from being used as a "model" and that China should be cut to its feet. Standing at the forefront of the research on grassroots social autonomy in China, the author "cages heaven and earth in the form, and frustrates all things in the pen", takes innovation as the task, and makes different interpretations of the governance, transformation and order of social autonomy, which is thought-provoking and innovative. In the words of Sima Qian, Ban Gu commented, "his writing is straightforward, his affairs are core, he is not false beauty, and he does not hide evil." ——True learning! is the order. Baigang July 22, 2017 Heavy summer（AI翻译）