理性与良知：“大跃进”时期的县级官员

“大跃进”时期的县级官员在整个国家的行政结构中处于一个夹层位置，一方面其命运取决于上级的好恶，另一方面对下级和民众的权力基本不受到制约，因此他们从理性的角度发出，只能对上惟命是从，但是他们中的一些人，对民众所遭到的痛苦，表现出良知的一面。有一部分县级官员为上级的错误和自己的过失承受了惩处，不过最根本的原因是行政体制所造成的，在一定程度上说，县级官员也是行政体制问题的牺牲品。

Reason and Conscience: Township Officials in the Big Leap Forward Period

In the so-called Big Leap Forward period, officials at the township level were sandwiched between higher authorities who held sway over their fate and the subordinates and the mass over whom they had uncontrolled power. As rational beings, they knew they had to be yes-men to their superiors. However, some of them were well aware of people＇s sufferings with a stricken conscience. Some ended up being punished for the errors committed by their superiors as well as themselves. In the final analysis, it is the administrative system which is to blame, and the township officials were but sacrifices for such a system.