Based on a field study, this paper explores the phenomenon of "alienation" of farmers in the Zhuang village of Puzhai, Pingxiang City, Guangxi, on the border between China and Vietnam, and focuses on the internal logic and external manifestations of their livelihood choices and psychological changes. In the context of globalisation and localisation, the border people in Puzhai are faced with unprecedented livelihood challenges and opportunities, and have flexibly adjusted their livelihood strategies according to their own resource endowments and market opportunities, so as to achieve the diversification and modernisation of their livelihoods, which not only affects their material standard of living, but also profoundly touches their spiritual world. Through an in-depth analysis of the livelihood choices and psychological changes of smallholder farmers in the Zhuang villages of Puzai, this paper reveals the complexity and diversity of smallholder farmers' lives in the context of globalisation and localisation, and provides new perspectives and empirical materials for ethnographic and anthropological studies on smallholder farmers' livelihoods and psychological changes. At the same time, this paper also has important theoretical and practical significance for understanding the social change and cultural adaptation of ethnic areas in the process of globalisation.

Xu Xing. The "Alienated" Farmers: Livelihood Choices and Psychological Changes in Zhuang Villages on the Sino-Vietnamese Border. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 11: 8-15. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.071102.

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