Tourism and Modernity in China

Informationen zum Autor Tim Oakes is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Klappentext This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes uses the province of Guizhou to examine the Chinese tourist industry as an example of the state's modernization policies and how local people have engaged with these changes. Zusammenfassung This book offers important perspectives on the experience of modernity in China and reveals the dynamic responses of ethnic minorities as they encounter the forces of state sponsored modernization. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Glossary Preface Introduction 1. Tourism and Modernity 2. Place and Process in the Tourist Political Economy 3. Colonizing a barren and profitless place 4. False Modern Triumphant: Tourism and Cultural Development in Guizhou 5. Reclaiming the Tourist Landscape 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Oakes, Tim Oakes, Tim (University of Colorado At Boulder Oakes
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138863057
• ISBN: 978-1-138-86305-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore