Aestheticisation, rent-seeking, and rural gentrification amidst China's rapid urbanisation: The case of Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou

Spatio-temporal pattern of China's rural development: A rurality index perspective

“…The rural development in China has gradually attracted the interest in academic circles both at home and abroad (Long et al, 2009a), ranging from ruraleurban migration (Liu, 2008;Ma, 1999;Rozelle et al, 1999;Zhang et al, 2004;Liu et al, 2013), rural industry and employment (Mohapatra et al, 2007;Shen and Ma, 2005;Unger and Chan, 1999), rural associations and state corporatism (Unger, 2006), rural taxation and government regulation (Tao et al, 2004), rural poverty alleviation (Heilig et al, 2006;Unger, 2002aUnger, , 2003Park and Wang, 2010), rural transformation development (Unger, 2002b(Unger, , 2006Liu, 2007;, rural gentrification (Qian et al, 2013), urbanerural equalized development , rural land-use change and building new countryside Long et al, 2009bLong et al, , 2010. Some studies has also depicted the development stage of China's rural development and explained the driving forces and breaking forces during different period Tan, 2001, 2002;Long et al, 2010).…”

Explaining and understanding environmental actions in Chinese agriculture: the case of Yuqiao watershed of Tianjin municipality

“…Removing most or many of the 130,000 residents in the Yuqiao area, thereby efficiently reducing emissions of sewage, is of course possible. This might be combined with redevelopment of the area by, for example, introducing large-scale, industrialised farming; opening the clayrich fluvial delta for industrial exploitation; upmarket leisure resorts; or facilitating gentrification by urbanites working in Beijing and Tianjin, as described by Qian et al (2013) for the Guangzhou region in Guangdong Province. Possibly the total leaching of nutrients might be kept at levels not causing any serious algal blooms or inferior water quality, but each of these redevelopments will most likely have their own negative consequences.…”

The role of self-gentrification in sustainable tourism: Indigenous entrepreneurship at Honghe Hani Rice Terraces World Heritage Site, China

“…This concept is especially useful for understanding situations where inmigration puts pressure on native groups, bringing about an increase in living costs and a change in use of land and limited housing stock. While the term "gentrification" was not literally used by the participants of this study, it has been widely applied to describe similar processes in China (du Cros, Bauer, Lo, & Rui, 2005;Gu & Ryan, 2012;Su, 2012;Qian, He, & Liu, 2013), and the authors believe it helpful in understanding phenomena occurring in Honghe WHS.…”