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Poverty Alleviation Through Ecoturism in Yunnan, China Poverty Alleviation Through Ecotourism in the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site, Yunnan China (Jenny) Juhyung Cho Master’s Thesis (60 Credits) East Asian Studies Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages University of Oslo Spring 2011 © Juhyung Cho 2011 Poverty Alleviation Through Ecotourism in the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site, Yunnan China (Jenny) Juhyung Cho http://www.duo.uio.no/ Trykk: Reprosentralen, Universitetet i Oslo ii Table of contents Illustrations ............................................................................................................................... v Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................... vi Abbreviations and Glossary ................................................................................................. viii Abstract .................................................................................................................................. xiii 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Motivation for the study .............................................................................................. 1 1.2 Background of the study .............................................................................................. 2 1.3 Presentation of research questions ............................................................................... 5 1.4 Theoretical framework ................................................................................................ 7 1.5 Methodical reflections ............................................................................................... 11 1.5.1 Getting contact with the informants ................................................................... 11 1.5.2 The roles of ―gatekeepers‖ ................................................................................. 12 1.5.3 Language, identity and power balance ............................................................... 15 1.5.4 Ethics .................................................................................................................. 18 1.5.5 Critique of the sources ........................................................................................ 19 1.6 Layout overview ........................................................................................................ 22 2 Conceptual framework .................................................................................................. 24 2.1 Poverty: a brief historical background ....................................................................... 24 2.2 Chinese poverty alleviation strategies and China‘s main target areas: Western China 28 2.3 To what extent are sustainable development and poverty alleviation related to each other? 31 2.4 Ecotourism in the Chinese context ............................................................................ 35 2.5 Poverty reduction through the community-based ecotourism ................................... 41 2.6 Summary and concluding remarks ............................................................................ 44 3 The Analysis of Community Participation as a tool for Securing livelihoods and Improving Local Standards of Living .................................................................................. 47 3.1 South Korea‘s Saemaul Movement in the 1970s as a possible ―blueprint‖ for New Socialist Countryside Construction ...................................................................................... 47 3.2 Tourism Management in Yubeng .............................................................................. 51 3.2.1 Yubeng village ................................................................................................... 51 3.2.2 The mechanism of rotating system in Yubeng ................................................... 53 3.3 Collaborations with NGO and Local governments and Limitations in Participatory Poverty Reduction ................................................................................................................ 61 3.4 Summary and Concluding remarks ........................................................................... 63 iii 4 A New-State Owned Ecotourism Model, National Parks and their Impacts on Community-Based Participation – Focusing on Pudacuo National Park ......................... 65 4.1 The relation between the trails and horseback-riding ................................................ 65 4.2 The genesis of Pudacuo National Park model, as a replacement of ―horseback riding‖? ................................................................................................................................. 67 4.2.1 The marginalization of rural participation under the PNP model ...................... 69 4.2.2 National park model means less community-based participation? .................... 71 4.3 Summary and concluding remarks ............................................................................ 72 5 Financial Aid for Nongjiale – an Alternative Way to Microfinance? ........................ 73 5.1 Historical background of microfinance in Yunnan, China ........................................ 73 5.2 The key factors to manage the lower interest rates.................................................... 78 5.3 The concept of nongjiale and the mechanism of operating nongjiale by a case study in Bingzhongluo ................................................................................................................... 82 5.3.1 Gongshan county and Bingzhongluo township .................................................. 84 5.3.2 To what extent can promoting the usage of sustainable facilities contribute to facilitating nongjiale? – focusing on biogas generators ................................................... 86 5.3.3 The mechanism distributions of the GTB financial aid and the impacts on the government initiative nongjiale ....................................................................................... 90 5.4 Summary and concluding remarks ............................................................................ 96 6 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 99 6.1 Main results ............................................................................................................. 100 6.2 The theoretical implications of the study ................................................................ 105 References ............................................................................................................................. 107 Appendix 1 - The Translation of Chinese Terms ............................................................. 118 iv Illustrations Picture 1 Ecotourism poster and sign ....................................................................................... 39 Picture 2. Yubeng village ......................................................................................................... 53 Picture 3. Horseback riding business ....................................................................................... 59 Picture 4. The micro-hydropower generator and the expansion of infrastructure.................... 62 Picture 5. Pudacuo National Park ............................................................................................ 70 Picture 6. Nongjiale-lodgings .................................................................................................. 83 Map 1. Yunnan province and north-west of Yunnan 1 (The Three Parallel Rivers) ................. x Map 2. North-west of Yunnan 2 ................................................................................................ xi Map 3. Bingzhongluo (丙中洛) ............................................................................................... xii Map 4. The map of the trekking routes .................................................................................... 55 Table 1. Different physical conditions between the Saemaul Movement and the NSCC ....... 48 Table 2. The detailed information of the trekking routes in Yubeng ....................................... 54 Table 3. Income of households from self-organizing tourism in Yubeng village .................... 60 Table 4. Hayongduri village in South Korea under the Saemaul Movement .......................... 80 Table 5. The five village proprietors to obtain loans ............................................................... 92 Table 6. The price of commodities in Bingzhongluo and Dali ................................................ 95 v Acknowledgments Doing research on the ecotourism programs in rural China has been a long journey, one that was filled with challenges, excitement, frustration and joy. During this process, I have not only learned more knowledge about rural China and South Korea, but have also grown personally through self-reflection. First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor Vladimir Tikhonov (Park Noja) for his thoughtful guidance, his patience and warm heart. You have supported me to clarifying the messages I have striven to express in the academic setting. Thank you for your kindness in supporting me when my frustration peaked. Secondly, I would like to thank my vice-supervisor Koen Wellens for his critical questions and useful tips before doing my
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