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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Tourism, Anthropology and China
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Tourism, Anthropology and China
Tan Chee Beng, Sidney Cheung and Yang Hui eds.
Bangkok: White Lotus Press; ISBN 974-7534-62-2; US$22.50, 348 pages.
This volume brings together sixteen ethnographic case studies on tourism in
China and elsewhere by Chinese and non-Chinese scholars. While Yunnan is a
particular focus, tourism in Guizhou, Hong Kong, and Macau are also studies.
A number of papers deal with ethnic tourism and conservation, and major
anthropological perspectives on the study of tourism are also presented. An
important aspect of China's economic development over the past two decades,
tourism has had a major impact on local economies and socio-cultural
development, topics insightfully pursued here. The volume makes a major
contribution to the study of ethnic tourism, an activity closely intertwined
with representing ethnic minorities, their interaction with the state, as
well as their management of marginality, modernity, and globalization.
Contents
The Life and Work of Professor Wang Zhusheng
I. Tourism and Anthropology: Theoretical and Comparative
1. Tourism and the Anthropology of China (Tan Chee-Beng)
2. Ethnic Tourism in Southeast Asia (Erik Cohen)
3. Ethnic Tourism: One Group, Three Contexts (Edward M. Bruner)
4. Tourism and Anthropology in East Asia Today: Some Comparisons (Nelson H.
H. Graburn)
II. Ethnic Tourism in Yunnan
5. Living with the Myth of Matriarchy: The Mosuo and Tourism (Eileen R. Walsh)
6. Cosmopolitan Tourism and Minority Politics in the Stone Forest (Margaret
N. Swain)
7. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Observations and Reflections on Tourism
Development in Lijiang, China (Charles F. McKhann)
8. Man-chun-man Village at the Crossroads: Conservation and Vicissitudes of
Ethnic Cultures during the Development of Tourism (Yang Hui, Liu Chun, Liu
Yongqing and Duan Ying)
9. The Dai Minority and Prospect for Tourism in Yunnan Province (Jean A. Berlie)
III. Tourism, Development and Identity
10. Developing China: Formation and Influence of "Ethnic Tourism" and
"Ethnic Tourees" (Xu Xinjian)
11. The Meanings of Mao in Mao Tourism of Shaoshan (Han Min)
12. Tourism and Historical Memory: A Case Study of the Social Movement of
Manchu Identity Reconstruction (Bai Lian)
IV. Tourism and Conservation
13. Preservation and Tourism Development in Hong Kong: An Anthropological
Perspective (Sidney C. H. Cheung)
14. Conservation and Interpretation of Cultural Legacies for Ethnic Tourism
in Macau (Ian Chaplin, Carlos M. M. Costa and Aliana Leong Man Wai)
15. Advocacy Work on Conservation and Tourism Development in the Old City of
Quanzhou, Fujian, China (Johan Nilsson and Tan Ying)
16. Making Tourism Work for Heritage Preservation: Lijiang A Case Study
(Heather Peters)
For more information, please contact:
White Lotus Co., Ltd. GPO Box 1141, Bangkok 10501, Thailand
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