ABSTRACT
Resilience theory provides an emerging perspective to analyse tourism impacts and responses in addressing development and change in rural communities. This chapter presents an ethnographic case study of Huangling village, a traditional Chinese Hui community in Jiangxi Province that has been transformed through tourism development. The study explores how tourism can be a catalyst for rebuilding the social-ecological resilience, which is observed in this village by applying the seven principles of community resilience of the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Simonsen et al., 2014). The findings indicate that, as seen in the case of this village, tourism development resulted in a strengthening of resilience in terms of diversity, connectivity, participation, and polycentric governance. On the other hand, managing potentially serious feedback responses, encouraging complex adaptive thinking, and encouraging learning through self-organizing were areas of resilience that needed greater attention.
