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

Oakes, Tim

ISBN 10: 0415188504 / ISBN 13: 9780415188500

Published by Routledge, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tourism and Modernity in China (Routledge Studies on China in Transition)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415188504
• ISBN 13: 9780415188500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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