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| RESEARCH FOR THE INVISIBLE ACTION OF DANWEI AND ITS HOUSING MANIFESTATION IN CHINA'S HOUSING REFORM: CASES FROM SEVERAL COLLEGE STAFF NEIGHBORHOODS IN BEIJING |
| HOU Yi-shan, CHAI Yan-wei |
| College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China |
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Abstract This paper aims at studying about this "invisible" action of Danwei, to find out whether the action of Danwei has really changed into this "invisible" form, and how does the "invisible" action of Danwei make an effect on housing acquirement. This study uses qualitative research methods in the case of 4 college staff neighborhoods in Beijing, including field work as well as in-depth interviews with 8 college staff residents and 4 people from housing management departments of the relevant university. In these cases, the "invisible" action of Danwei in Chinese cities is verified from the micro-level. We can see that instead of disappearing in the housing reform, Danwei still has something to do with housing manifestation, as it is shown in housing acquirement and later period management through our case study. Through a combination of social revolution background and individual housing behavioral characteristics, this paper shows the transform of how Danwei works in employee's housing behaviors after the housing reform, and also explains the manifestation pattern of Danwei's "invisible" action. It is also summarized that the action of Danwei on staff's housing has experienced a process of evolution along with the main housing policy time point (e.g. the official start of housing reform, the promotion and restriction of economically affordable housing, etc.), from explicit to "invisible". In this evolution process, the character of Danwei in housing providing change from indirect development participant to intermediary by only contacting houses and consulting a discount for the staffs in case IV, while its action in later period management is also weaken from physical facilities to currency subsidy.
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2014, Vol. 29 
