This paper,by differentiating the ideal types of village s character and taking the widespread villages without society layer and community memory in the central and western areas in China nowadays as example,has established a threelayered analysing model on village s power structure..The paper argues that the interest transactions between governance elites and nongovernance elites are found everywhere in the villages of this kind,where the ordinary villagers are refused to join in the village s governance,thus it destroys the space for village s further development.Maybe,the author thinks,the democratized governance of villages is one kind of strength to save the village,on condition that it could first arouse the nongovernance elitessense of responsibility and the ordinary villager s political consciousness.……
