Tourism and Modernity in China by Tim Oakes (9780415188500)

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An important feature of China's rapid modernization has been the rise of a consumer society in the cities. Retail, entertainment and leisure and tourism industries have developed quickly to help service the ever expanding consumer demands of China's new cosmopolitans. However, big changes are also taking place in rural areas as consumption patterns continue to grow and diversify. Tourism and Modernity in China explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in its 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. This book offers some important new perspectives on the experience of modernity in China. In particular it reveals the dynamic responses of ethnic minorities as they encounter the forces of state-sponsored modernization in the form of tourism development.

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