The Rural Gentrification and Its Impacts in Traditional Villages―A Case Study of Xixinan Village, in China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors,
Your text is interesting to read and follow. You've written in a descriptive way, which makes it like we are reading a story book. I do not said this in a negative way. You have produced an extensive material, describing all of the process occuring in the selected area.
I have two main concerns, which I will detail below.
1. The text does not present a theoretical section. Gentrification, in all of its variants, has an extensive available bibliography. By failing to produce a theoretical section, your research is merely empirical, with small contribution to the literature. This engagement is only (well) produced in section 6.2, but is missing in the beginning of the text.
2. It does not become clear exactly why gentrification is mobilized to analyze the change in the area. Gentrification is a very critical concept. Using it just to explain a certain pattern of demographic change seems scarce, especially if it is not discussed what are the implication of such change. The rise in housing prices are mentioned, but what more? At some point this relates with what you approach in lline 964. Is it rural gentrification, just because there are some newcomers to the rural area? If yes, this understanding in what several studies have been criticizing, namely the fact that, nowadays, simple processes of change are being framed as gentrification, which is not correct and undermines the validity of the concept. In my opinion, some more insights are need to frame the analyzed process and its consequences.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors,
Congratulations for your interesting paper. However, in order to improve it I suggest the following:
Abstract: This section is extensive: I suggest you more synthesis
Introduction: This is an interesting section. However, I suggest to clarify the research problem of the study (To write only: “Attention to China's wider countryside remains lacking, and theoretical research lags behind the development of practice” is not sufficient. Based this problem in literature review). Please also add in the end of this section the structure of the paper.
Methodology: What type of methodology you use to analyse data. Do you use any type of software to analyse it? Please clarify.
Conclusion and Discussion: Often we first have the discussion and after the conclusion section. Here relates your conclusion with literature review. Also add the limitations of the study, paths for future research and also the limitations of the study for theory and practice.
Also some figures are not good. See particularly fig. 10.
Good work on the next steps.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors, appreaciate the changes you've made to the text, that significantly improved it. Below there are just some minor issues that need to be changed in the text. As my previous concerns have been answered, I believe that after the below improvements, the text is ready for publication
- Do not use capital 'U' in line 47
- Please rephrase the title of figure 6, using some words that refer that the numbers correspond to opening per year
- Chapter 5 is intitled 'Discussion', which is correct. Thus, section 6 is not 'conclusion and discussion' but rather 'conclusion and limitations'
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