Adequate provision of public goods and public services at the community level constitutes a fundamental goal of community governance.Good community governance relies on active interactions and effective coordination among grassroots governments，NGOs，and community residents.The effectiveness of community governance and the cultivation of community social capital have become a significant topic in research on community governance.The book“The Quasi-Civic Community-State，GuanxiNetworks，and Local Governance in Urban China”discusses the role and relationship between grassroots government and civil-society organizations.It then proposes a theoretical model of“quasi-civic communities”to explain current practicesin community governance.On the one hand，the nature of government departments at the grassroots levels and the functional performance of the evaluation system have led to the formation of“local image-facilitating alliances”.On the other hand，civil society organizations based on guanxinetworks resist manipulation by grassroots political power by“cycling on the line，”but they also face dilemmasdue to citizen interests and factional conflicts.