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Chinese Civil Society, Intellectuals and Movement of Community － Centering on the Case of Lashihai in Yunnan －
Journal of Humanities
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Participatory watershed management, an eco-protection project that was conducted in Lashihai area nestled in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province and carried out by Green Watershed, an environmental NGO and Naxi minority (and Yi minority), was greatly spotlighted both at home and abroad. This paper is aimed at dealing with the example of Lashihai as the central study about Chinese civil society, intellectuals and the movement of community. Above all else, Green Watershed and Yu Xiaogang as the person in charge of NGO, played an important role on the Lashihai project. And Oxfam, the international environmental NGO, got interested in the Lashihai area that was plentiful of ecological and cultural diversities, and fully and consistently supported the project. Besides, the cooperation beteeen the local governments and the inhabitants who actively participated in the movement made Lashihai project possible. The effect of the Lashihai project did not end in solving ecological problems and helping residents escape from poverty. In the process of carrying out the project, the residents produced their own leader and wrote their own history. The tradition and the value system of the minority, characterized by the concept of environmental protection and consciousness of equality, performed an important role in the management of the watershed. The Lashihai project showed that environmental protection and the sustainable development can be made possible in the local community movements.
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