Xianghong Feng

Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land

Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has disrupted the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents.

Produktdetails

• The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781498557757
• ISBN-10: 1498557759
• Artikelnr.: 67226147

Autorenporträt

By Xianghong Feng

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Tourism's "Great Leap Forward"
Chapter 1The Place: The Mountain, The River, The People
Chapter 2"Scaling Up": The McDonaldizing Village Tours
Part II: Living with Tourism
Chapter 3Spatial Transformations: Constructing Tourism Sites
Chapter 4From Tourism Marketplace to Village Homes: Gendered Work among the
Local Miao
Chapter 5 Prosperity for Whom?: Tourism and the Poverty of Resources
Part III: One Village
Chapter 6Before and After the Merger: Everyday Resistance in Village Life
Chapter 7Competition and (In)equality: The Rise and Fall of Village Family
Restaurants
Conclusion"Small" as a Solution