Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land - Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China

In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has disrupted the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents.

List of contents

Part I: Tourism's "Great Leap Forward"
Chapter 1The Place: The Mountain, The River, The People
Chapter 2"Scaling Up": The McDonaldizing Village Tours
Part II: Living with Tourism
Chapter 3Spatial Transformations: Constructing Tourism Sites
Chapter 4From Tourism Marketplace to Village Homes: Gendered Work among the Local Miao
Chapter 5 Prosperity for Whom?: Tourism and the Poverty of Resources
Part III: One Village
Chapter 6Before and After the Merger: Everyday Resistance in Village Life
Chapter 7Competition and (In)equality: The Rise and Fall of Village Family Restaurants
Conclusion"Small" as a Solution

About the author

By Xianghong Feng

Summary

In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has disrupted the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents.

Product details

• Authors: Xianghong Feng
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781498557757
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5775-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Rural communities, Social & cultural anthropology, Politics & government, Economics;Gender;Rural China;Tourism