كتاب
A landscape of travel: the work of tourism in rural ethnic China
| العنوان: | A landscape of travel: the work of tourism in rural ethnic China |
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| المؤلفون: | Chio, Jenny, author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| وصف مادي: | xxxi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Studies on ethnic groups in China Studies on ethnic groups in China. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Rural tourism -- China., Ethnicity -- China., SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural., HISTORY -- Asia -- China., Ethnic relations., Ethnicity., Rural conditions., Rural tourism. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | China -- Ethnic relations., China -- Rural conditions., China. |
| الوصف: | "While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person's leisure is another person's labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates the contested meanings and unintended consequences of tourism for those people whose lives and livelihoods are most at stake in China's rural ethnic tourism industry: the residents of village destinations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Pingan (a Zhuang village in Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village in Guizhou), Jenny Chio analyzes the myriad challenges and possibilities confronted by villagers who are called upon to do the work of tourism. She addresses the shifting significance of migration and rural mobility, the visual politics of tourist photography, and the effects of touristic desires for "exotic difference" on village social relations. In this way, Chio illuminates the contemporary regimes of labor and leisure and the changing imagination of what it means to be rural, ethnic, and modern in China today. Jenny Chio is assistant professor of anthropology and associated faculty in film and media studies at Emory University. A Landscape of Travel is about China becoming a nation that travels, and one way of traveling is to be a tourist. Tourism is of course only one mode through which China's mobility expresses itself, and we must remember that most villages have no tourists at all. But if we want to understand why tourists see and experience what they do. and how this reflects China as a nation that travels, [this book] is both delightful and essential."--The foreword by Stevan Harrell"This book explores how 'travel' can be a useful framework with which to better understand how rural China is changing. While it has not been uncommon to view rural China as an increasingly 'mobilized' landscape of excess labor seeking better livelihoods in the cities, Chio's study approaches mobility in both more abstract and broad-ranging terms. Her work offers an important contribution. Anyone interested in ethnography, ethnicity in China, and anthropologies of tourism will find A Landscape of Travel interesting." - Tim Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Foreword / by Stevan Harrell -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of China -- Introduction : landscape, mobility, visuality -- 1. Similar, with minor differences : a tale of two villages -- 2. Peasant family happiness : a new socialist countryside -- 3. Leave the fields without leaving the countryside : the orders of mobility -- 4. "Take a picture with us" : the politics of appearance -- 5. The ability to be different : socialities and subjectivities -- Conclusion : Upper Jidao, meet Ping'an. |
| Original Identifier: | (PromptCat)99959589343 ocn865002682 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-295-99365-2 978-0-295-99366-9 0-295-99365-0 0-295-99366-9 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014143215.2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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