Heritage Tourism and Cities in China

ISBN-13: 9780367531102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 116 str.

Honggang Xu; Trevor H. B. Sofield

Opis

The chapters in this book break new ground in exploring various ways in which China’s cities have responded to the challenges of sustaining their ancient heritage.  The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Heritage Tourism.

Spis treści

1. New interests of urban heritage and tourism research in Chinese cities Honggang Xu and Trevor Sofield  2. The heritage of Chinese cities as seen through the gaze of zhonghua wenhua – ‘Chinese common knowledge’: Guilin as an exemplar Trevor H. B. Sofield, Fung Mei Sarah Li, Grace H. Y. Wong and Jinsheng Jason Zhu  3. Suzhou’s water grid as urban heritage and tourism resource: an urban morphology approach to a Chinese city Werner Breitung and Jing Lu 4. Industrial heritage tourism development and city image reconstruction in Chinese traditional industrial cities: a web content analysis Xueke (Stephanie) Yang 5. Spatial–temporal distribution characteristics of industrial heritage protection and the influencing factors in a Chinese city: a case study of the Tiexi old industrial district in Shenyang Xiaojun Fan and Shanshan Dai 6. Transnationalizing industrial heritage valorizations in Germany and China – and addressing inherent dark sides Leilei Li and Dietrich Soyez 7. Impacts of urban renewal on the place identity of local residents – a case study of Sunwenxilu traditional commercial street in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China Ding Shaolian

O autorze

Honggang Xu is a Professorfrom Sun Yat-Sen University. Her interest is tourism geography. She is a senior Editor for the journal, Tourism Geographies, and has published widely in leading international journals with her students and colleagues in China and abroad, and is a frequent presenter at international tourism and geography conferences around the world. Trevor Sofield, Visiting Professor, Center for Tourism Planning and Research, Sun Yat Sen University, China, has been involved in more than thirty tourism planning & development projects and research in China for the past 25 years. Originally from Australia he has undertaken more than 100 tourism projects in more than twenty other countries in the Asia Pacific region and Africa, including with UNESCO.