Rethinking Development Discourse:The Rural Development in China's Frontier Areas from a Cross-border Perspective——An Anthropological Study on a Village in Yunnan Province's Border Areas
The development of political economy theory has led to the critique and reconstruction of western-dominated development discourse by academics at home and abroad in terms of economic growth,power relations,and native conditions.The attempts have contributed to a rethinking of the development discourse developed since the latter half of the 20th century as well as an unconditional acceptance of one basic premise of development discourse since the mid-19th century,namely the premise of placing nation as the basic unit of development.The effect is particularly prominent in the process of frontier development,especially in rural areas.On the one hand,conceptually,the terri-torial boundaries of the state produce conceptual boundaries,restricting the choices of development paths in frontier areas.On the other hand,in practice,attention has not been given enough to nu-merous cross-border activities that positively impact the livelihood security,industrial development,and endogenous dynamics of rural frontier areas,thus limiting the potential for development.Through the case study of a border village in Yunnan Province,it can be found that breaking the traditional de-velopment discourse by building a new one centered around the concept of a community with a shared future and the Chinese path to modernization,and preserving the special value of rural frontier areas and cross-border corridors will contribute to the future development of frontier areas and even rural re-vitalization on a national scale.
development discourserural frontier areasChinese path to modernizationa com-munity with a shared future
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