Village Power Structures Behind Urbanization

Since the twentieth century, with the transformation of Chinese society from traditional to modern, trends in traditional culture, modernization, social change, the clash of Eastern and Western cultures, and especially rural power structures, have been a point of focus for sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists, among others. This article seeks to continue the exploration of Chinese rural power structures in the period of transformation by utilizing the traditional anthropological method of village case studies. By taking Guizhou province's Wangjiashan village (Anshun city) as the target of the investigation, I hope to explain the process of change in an ethnic minority village's (Qingmiao) power structures during a period of urbanization. "Urbanization" and "ethnic minorities" are the two specific variables that will be considered in this article's research on Chinese rural power structures. The goal is to observe social transformation as it occurs in the here and now, over a relatively short period of time. By using this technique, I will demonstrate the changes that occur in the power structures of an ethnic minority village that has various self-consciousnesses and ethnic cultures, as well as levels and methods of economic development

Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic chinese · Ethnic group · Geography · Modernization theory · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Rural area · Social change · Social transformation · Sociology · Urbanization · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies