Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority - Softcover

Nyíri, Pál

 
9780295987613: Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority

Synopsis

The explosion of the tourist industry in China has produced a unique style of tourism rooted in Chinese history and distinct from both Western bourgeois tourism and Soviet tourism,

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About the Author

Pál Nyíri is professor of global history from an anthropological perspective at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, Cultural Authority, and the State (University of Washington Press, 2006) and Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China (University of Washington Press, 2010); coauthor of Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer Habits (University of Washington Press, 2009); and coeditor of Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region (University of Washington Press, forthcoming 2016).

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