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Tourism and Modernity in China (Routledge Studies in China in Transition)

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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.

Author(s): Tim Oakes
Edition: 1
Year: 1998

Language: English
Pages: 272

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Series Editor’s preface......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
1 Tourism and modernity......Page 34
2 Place and process in the tourist political economy......Page 72
3 Colonizing a barren and profitless place......Page 96
4 False modern triumphant......Page 144
5 Reclaiming the tourist landscape......Page 200
Conclusion......Page 234
Glossary......Page 242
Notes......Page 244
Bibliography......Page 250
Index......Page 262