A feature of China's rapid modernization has been the rise of a consumer society in the cities. Retail, entertainment and leisure industries have developed to help service the expanding consumer demands of China's new cosmopolitans. However, major changes are also taking place in rural areas as the tourist industry continues to grow. This volume examines how the experience of modernization is revealed in its 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...
A feature of China's rapid modernization has been the rise of a consumer society in the cities. Retail, entertainment and leisure industries have deve...
Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores Chinas reform era development within the concept of trans-locality. A key element of spatial change in today's China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labor migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and many others. But trans-locality doesn't just mean people. It is crucially constituted by the circulation of capital, ideas, images, goods, styles, services, disease to name but a few. With contribution from well-respected China specialists, the essays focus simultaneously on mobilites and...
Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores Chinas reform era development within the concept of trans-locality. A key element o...
Explores China's reform era development within the context of translocality. With contributions from well-respected China specialists, this book focuses simultaneously on mobilities and localities, drawing our attention to the multiplying forms of mobility in China whilst retaining the importance of localities in people's lives.
Explores China's reform era development within the context of translocality. With contributions from well-respected China specialists, this book focus...
This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. The book examines how tourism reveals the paradoxical ways that places are both mobile and rooted, real and fake, inhabited by those who are simultaneously insiders and outsiders, and both subjectively experienced and...
This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studi...
By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Over the past several decades, China has experienced a rapid expansion of religious spaces and activities. More recently, a growing middle-class urban society has fueled an upsurge in Chinese domestic tourism. Faiths on Display challenges the common separation of religious and tourist activities, showing how these practices overlap and blend together. A group of leading scholars explores the unlikely...
By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continu...
Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in social theory concerning such diverse topics as postcolonialism, mobility, and postmodernism, to name just a few. While there has been a diverse body of empirical research on this transformation the theoretical discussions in tourism studies remain largely attached to theories of modernity and...
Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its...
This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.
Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled, territorialized, and...
This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models an...
