Modernization And The End Of The Village

This thesis studies the changing and even disappear course of a village by the middle of Yangtze River in the process of modernization. In the form of ethnography to describe this process, the thesis is mainly to analyse the process of modernization of Guanyinge village from the changing of political life, economic life, culture, social structure and so on. The political modernization is different from before: change of government and the county roughly the same country as a whole, has its local characteristics. Since the Guomindang Government, the administrative division changed frequently due to the government's failure to find a suitable organization to manage the rural community. Since 1949, the country's political system has changed at all: high concentration of power, the administrative organization arrived at the grass-roots, and formed political authority intervened grassroots affairs directly. Guanyinge village experienced several political movements after the liberation, caused social and cultural changes of village, and influence profoundly the family life of the villagers. The executive powers gradually penetrate into the rural community. With the implementation of household contract responsibility system, government intervene rural society gradually less. The villagers have more autonomic power and establish a committee under the leadership of the groups of villagers, autonomy of the villagers appears. But since the 1990s, the construction of the Three Gorges Project, the political power intervened directly villages'affaires, and forced villagers to move a new place, so the end of the village. Political reform has become the most significant modernization of the rural characteristics; Economic modernization process through a tortuous process, before the liberation the village due to its special geographical location to become a "bazaar", but a series of political liberation movement changed the economic life of the villages and the livelihoods of villagers. In the 1990s, the construction of the Three Gorges Project interrupted the entire process again, the quondam economic form of Guanyinge Village interrupted due to the loss of land and the support of the village, with the disappearance of the same village; With nearly 50 years of political reform and economic development, culture is also a corresponding change, and material culture has undergone a complete change. The change is from maize to rice, huts to the second; A system of cultural adaptability variation, marriage and family system is to retain the traditional characteristics, a modern variation; Spirit culture is of relative stability. However, they are forced to adapt to a new social and cultural environment after the end of the village, it means that the culture as the basis for the existence of village changes greatly; Great changes of the social structure is a very prominent phenomenon in the process of China's modernization. The social structure of Guanyinge village in the past 50 years has taken great changes, manifesting in the change of population structure and the decline of the clan organizations. Strong kin-family is weakening with the production and distribution patterns of change. Three Gorges Project—an incident outside the village to change the existing social structure.