ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the resettled villagers rebuild the new community order by participating in various community activities, as well as exploring their new identity and relationship boundary. Thanks to the emergence of significantly more leisure time for the resettled villagers, various forms of cultural leisure activities have appeared in the “village-turned-communities” all over the country. Village governance by able persons, community participation and identity shaping are all the key factors that enable residents in the “village-turned-community” to rebuild self-identity. Although not all communities have charismatic leaders with extraordinary personal abilities, communities with such talented people can quickly achieve orderly governance and provide good services, so that residents can quickly establish their recognition to the community and the identity as community people. In terms of identity status, the social memories of the resettled villagers formed by the traditional rural society will restrict their transformation and social identity. Generally speaking, spontaneous social interaction is shaping new interpersonal relationships of the resettled villagers. Despite inapparent effect of expanding the social network outside the community, the inner-community interpersonal connections beyond the boundaries of the original villages are gradually forming, and a new community mutual aid system and trust system are being constructed.
