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Tourism and Modernity in China: 6 (Routledge Studies on China in Transition) - Hardcover

Book 11 of 58: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

Oakes, Tim

 
9780415188500: Tourism and Modernity in China: 6 (Routledge Studies on China in Transition)

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.

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About the Author

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

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