Tourism and Modernity in China / Edition 1

by Tim Oakes

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415188500
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/27/1998
Series:	Routledge Studies on China in Transition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tim Oakes is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Glossary Preface Introduction 1. Tourism and Modernity 2. Place and Process in the Tourist Political Economy 3. Colonizing a barren and profitless place 4. False Modern Triumphant: Tourism and Cultural Development in Guizhou 5. Reclaiming the Tourist Landscape 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

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)

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