The Ruality And Its Changes In The Transformation Of Cuiligou Village In Chengde

This essay applies the qualitative research methods of case study and depth interview, and builds a history of transformation through coding, categorization analysis, situational analysis and other analytical ptocedures, then dissects the change of the village's ruality during the transformation. Finally it builds grounded theories from the original materials. There are 3 themes in this essay:transformation, oral history and ruality.In the part of transformation, I build the village history of Cuiligou, reavling the venation fo the development in the last 30 years, exploring the internal mechanism and delicate texture,which show that as a result of the national urban-rural strategies, land acquisition and start-up capital the villagers' livelihood has converted from traditional farming to working and individual business mainly,supplymented by farming. Meanwhile,living style,family structure and division of labour change accordingly,marching toward modernization. However, there is spatial disproportion in the village's transformation.The part of oral history may be equivalent of prequel, supplyment and deepening of transformation. By co-narrating of M and me, readers are able to get a glimpse of the village's pre-transformation, then discover the internal motivatives of it. This part is aimed at showing readers that the value to human geography of folk narrative and interviewee-leading representation.The part of rurality is the foothold of the whole essay, while transformation is the background of rurality's change and oral history's foiling gives the description of rurality more fullness. The village's rurality changes complicatedly.which cannot be claimed as recession or maintainess:the style of production and living gets closed to the urban's while some significant elements of rural life remain;young people's rurality declines while that of the middle aged and the old remains largely. Many villagers hold two-tier attitude towards rurality's changes. Transitivity of village's development also reflects on individuals.