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Scenic Spots – Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority: Scenic Spots

Autor Pál Nyíri
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2007
Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People's Republic of China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in traditional Chinese culture. "Scenic Spots" is an engaging exploration of why Chinese tourists pursue certain kinds of experiences, what they make of them, and how their experiences and interpretations are shaped by the state.
Working from within a Chinese cultural framework, Pal Nyiri argues that China's brand of tourism is distinct from the traditions of both Western bourgeois tourism, which values authenticity, and Soviet tourism, with its emphasis on rugged and selfless experience. In China, tourism development is guided by the state, and "scenic spots" (jingdian) and theme parks are used to demonstrate China's heroic past and as tools of patriotic education and modernization - or as forms of "indoctritainment." The tourist site is perceived as a product, and, as such, it is bounded, approved, rated, and consumed.
In a style both straightforward and provocative, Nyiri argues that the uniformity and undisguised commercialism of Chinese tourist sites are a direct result of the state's ultimate authority to determine the meaning of landscape and to control culture. "Scenic Spots" serves as a lens through which to explore mechanisms of cultural control and resistance in a highly commercialized sphere of everyday life in contemporary China.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295987613
ISBN-10: 0295987618
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: 20 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria Scenic Spots

Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

“A timely analysis of the significant increase in domestic tourism in China over the past decade and the role this plays in an ongoing state project of nation building and modernization. An excellent introduction to an exciting field of study, organized and written in a way that makes the information accessible to nonspecialists and appropriate to undergraduate courses in contemporary China as well as to tourism studies.” American Anthropologist“A useful insight into the complexities of the sociopolitical quagmire that is global tourism and a useful addition to the canon on tourists and tourism. Anthropologists cannot ignore tourism, and those not familiar with this particular intellectual terrain will find this book a useful introduction.” American Ethnologist“Scenic Spots offers an elegant combination of theory and data on an increasingly important topic. It makes useful comparisons (like to Russia) that probably no one else in the field could do, and it is presented in a way that makes it plausible for undergraduate use.” Robert P. Weller, Boston University“Scenic Spots will be of great interest in tourism studies, the China field more generally, and to non-China specialists with interests in cross-cultural perspectives on tourism, the cultural economy, and even landscape studies. It will be central to a nexus of topics currently being taught.” Tim Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Cuprins

Preface
1. What's in a Site?: The Making of "Scenic Spots"
2. Two Sites and a Non-Site: Mounts Emei, Jiuzhaigou, and Songpan
3. Making Sense of Scenic Spots
4. Scenic Spots Beyond the Border: Migration, Tourism, and Cultural Authority
Notes
Bibliography
Index


Descriere

An engaging exploration of why Chinese tourists pursue certain kinds of experiences, what they make of them, and how their experiences and interpretations are shaped by the state