Tourism - Social Aspects, General Asian Politics & Government, Asian Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Ethnic & Minority Studies - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
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.Editorials
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Oakes (geography, U. of Colorado-Boulder) explores how newly constructed tourist landscapes reveal the experience of Chinese modernization. In the burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks, he says, can be seen all the contradiction, debasement, and liberating potentials of modernity. He takes the interior southern province of Guizhou as an example of the state's modernization policies and how local people have engaged with these changes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)Book Details
Published
October 2, 2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pages
272
ISBN
9781134659999