The Changes Of The Tibetan Village Power Structure In The Process Of Modernization

In the 21 st century, economic globalization while driving China’s rapid economic development, and constantly promote the modernization of Chinese society. Many changes have taken place in rural China in the process of the modernization. In the Tibetan area had a low level of urbanization, and slow economic development speed and a single economic development outlook. The purpose of this article is to illustrate and analyze the changes of Tibetan village’s power structure under the influence of tourism development, by taking the Suo village in Jiarong area as a case. On this basis,we may find an appropriate angle to analyze these changes by referencing the perspective of the “the cultural nexus of power”.Based on the accumulation of the reality and history Document Literature, firstly,this thesis will give an introduction of the basic situation of Suo village, with an emphasis on the Kinship and religious culture, which are the core of the cultural nexus of power in the Chapter Two. On this basis, this thesis will give a Detailed description and analysis about the power structure of Suo village before the tourism developed.Prior to the development of tourism, the religious organization and Village Committees were the main part in the power structure of Suo village, which had a clear division of functions, that was the Village Committees took charge of the external business of village, meanwhile the religious organization charge of the internal business of village,mutual non-interference and mutual cooperation. Beyond this, the Seniors’ Association briefly appeared in the village in the 1990 s became an other power subject of the supplement of the individual religious authority. The three main powers were relying onreligion, family and personal authority to obtain in their own right. The emergence of the tourism development brought new power subjects for the Suo village, which broke the power structure before. In the chapter four, this thesis will give a brief introduction of tourism development of Suo, and then describe the two new power subjects in Suo in order of time, that is the Tourism Association and the Tourism Administration. Finally,analyze the process of change in the power structure by the process of interactive activities between the old and the new powers subjects.Through the described and discussed above, we got the conclusion in this paper that: Being in the process of modernization, the development of tourism in the village bring all the changes at the time will alter the original power structure and the cultural nexus of power of the village. But this change is not a destructive one, which is more of a non-structural changes. In this process, the original cultural nexus has not been completely destroyed, it has an endogenous power, can adapt to the new needs of society by transition itself. When a new external power subject entering into the village power structure, in order to guarantee its authority’s stability and implementation of the policy successfully,it must root itself in the local cultural nexus rely on its own authority’s advantages.In this paper, the purpose of the analysis and elaboration the Suo village power structure and its change under the influence of tourism development, which is expected to give some attention to the modernization and urbanization in rural China. Especially the study of the transformation in the western ethnic minority villages. In the study of Suo village, this paper argues that in the modern transformation of rural, the own initiative of rural cannot be ignored. Country has its own cultural characteristics, that is the key of the rural modernization transformation.Only by respecting the country’s own cultural tradition and cultural traits, that we may have a chance to avoid the old routine of preventing our tradition from cultural anomie, while abandoning our tradition for modernization.