This article aims to study the relationship between the farmers’ actual choice and the existing social structure through several recent cases of choice of property rights in villages.It emphasizes that “choice structure”is an intermedium,which connects objective structure and subjective choice.Choice of property rights is an extremely dynamic social process,in which endless interaction and construction occur between soical structure in the village and its members who have various choice strategies facing social changes.Village’s Social structure and its members’ choices are internally connected and mutually constructed.The article further discusses the constructive effect from the farmers’ initiative concern in their practice of choices,as well as the legacy and extensibility from the existing organization and institution in this process of choice of property rights.Finally the article concludes that the form of ownership is not necessarily the key to village reform,and that the real key is whether the village can continually create expectation of cooperation,and solve their internal conflicts with the cooperation.
