A Study of Changing Subjectivity in Overseas Chinese and the Reconstruction of Placeness in the Qiaoxiang under the Practice of Property Rights in Tourism Destinations—Evidence from the Wulin Village in Jinjiang,Fujian,China
A Qiaoxiang is a village that is at once an ancestral home and a spiritual home for overseas Chinese.It is a matter of great significance to reveal the process of changes in subjectivity and placeness among overseas Chinese after tourism development campaigns to promote a sense of identification with China and ancestral identity among overseas Chinese.This qualitative study uses an"institution-action-place"analytical framework to investigate the case of Wulin village in Jinjiang city,Fujian province,China and to describe the process and mechanism of the changes in subjectivity and placeness in the Qiaoxiang among overseas Chinese under the practice of property rights in tourist destinations.The study reveals that subjectivity among overseas Chinese changed significantly after the tourism development campaign.They became more positively disposed toward economic investment,the initiative of emotional investment and the consciousness of cultural connection to the dissipation of the sense of identity autonomy,the decrease of willingness to economic participation and the lack of cultural construction capacity.The property rights of overseas Chinese houses have a value rational regulation and emotional implicit adjustment effect on attitudes among overseas Chinese.Tourism development has promoted the transformation of the property rights relationships of overseas Chinese residences.In the process of changing from blood ethical circulation to market commercial circulation,the unbalanced distribution of power in the property rights structure eventually leads to the practices of different local subjects.The transformation of property rights is the underlying logic explaining the change in overseas Chinese attitudes toward tourism practices in overseas Chinese hometowns.The reconstruction of placeness in the Qiaoxiang after the tourism development campaign is the result of a shift from the interactive practice of overseas Chinese and their families to the uncoordinated practice of multiple subjects,which leads to the trend toward"de-localization"in the reconstruction of a sense of place.Theoretically,this study enriches our understanding of the spatial practices of migrants and the dynamic evolutionary laws of human-land relations in local negotiation,and also provides practical insights for tourism development and cultural heritage protection in diaspora areas.
Qiaoxiangpractice of property rightssubjectivityreconstruction of placenessoverseas Chinese tourism
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