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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/94492

Social Interaction between Non-local Business Owners and Local People in Xijiang Miao Village, Guizhou Province, China : Why AWOL is Tolerated

日本語

2025-03-25

Center for Northern Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University

Journal of the Center for Northern Humanities

18

207-220

This paper describes the ways in which non-local business owners and local people interact in Xijiang Village, Guizhou Province, China, and in particular examines a case of unauthorized absenteeism of a local cleaning staff that occurred at the guest houses. The research revealed that non-local business owners and local people have various ways of interacting with each other, including being business competitors, having employment relationships, and being friends with whom they celebrate, eat, and spend time together. At the same time, local social relations are embedded in employment relationships as part of the market economy. It was apparent that the relationship between non-local business owners and local people is more complex and diverse than an abstract relationship of conflict and oppression, and that non-local business owners are not independent entities connecting the tourist and the local people, but that some of them are gradually integrated into the local community, blurring the boundaries between the inside and the outside of themselves.

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