The Narrative Analysis Of Land Value View Of These Farmers Who Have Left The Land

Land is always a key issue for Chinese farmers, from the very basis of problems occurred in rural areas of China. As a result of historical farming tradition, Chinese farmers have been connected with land constantly. As a born farmer, he can never get rid of land. Surrounded with land, farmers have gradually formed their attitudes and perspectives on land into a distinct value and culture. This study is framed by the rational choice theory. Conforming to farmers’ subjectivity, it has explored different roles played by farmers and land on each stage, such as, on a stage survival has played a key role in farming, then economy, at last socialization.The author has methodized the thesis with a case study, taking farmers who have left land at Village F, County Lei yang, Hunan as an example. The author has made a narrative analysis of the representative farmers who have left land at village F, and categorized them into three kinds according to their values of land:secure type、 utilitarian type and burden type. Economical rationality has played the same important role as Surviving rationality in the development of farmers’ values of land who have left land and neither of those two rationalities can be thought less of each other, for they have running through the whole development process. As the development, socialization rationality has emerged in farmers’ evolutionary value of land who have left land and it would have been the main trend. On that basis, the author has also analyzed the influence factors of the famers’ values of land who have left land, microcosmically and macroscopically.The creative part in this thesis first lies in its study objectives. Different from the studies on farmers, the author has detailed the farmers with land to the farmers have left land, what’s more, the farmers studied in this thesis are those who have left from rural area for urban area, thus they have a distinct values of land. A second creative part in this thesis relies on the profound analysis from more rational aspect. The author analyzed from three stands, such as, from survival rationality stand, economical rationality, and socialization rationality, which have more deepened and developed the thesis than ever before.