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  • Unhomely Life

    Modernity, Mobilities and the Making of Home in China

    by Xiaobo Su ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    How do Chinas mobile individuals create a sense of home in a rapidly changing world?Unhomely life, different from houselessness, refers to a fluctuating condition between losing home feelings and the search for home — a prevalent condition in post-Mao China. The faster that Chinese society modernizes, the less individuals feel at home, and the more they yearn for a sense of home. This is the ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China

    A View from Lijiang

    by Xiaobo Su, Peggy Teo ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China’s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest one another to ready Lijiang for tourist consumption.Using rich material from insightful interviews and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Queer Singapore

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore’s current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Worlding Cities

    Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

    Edited by Ananya Roy, Aihwa Ong ...
    Series Book 42 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Tourism Geography

    Critical Understandings of Place, Space and Experience

    by Stephen Williams ...
    Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of tourism are created and maintained. Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, the discussion connects tourism to key geographical concepts relating to globalization, mobility, new geographies of production and consumption, and post-industrial change. The new edition has been fully updated to have an ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    by Fengshu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Chinese Women - Living and Working

    by Anne McLaren ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

    by Richard Butler, Tom Hinch ...
    Tourism and Indigenous Peoples is a unique text examining the role of indigenous societies in tourism and how they interact within the tourism nexus. Unlike other publications, this text focuses on the active role that indigenous peoples take in the industry, and uses international case studies and experiences to provide a global context to illustrate best practice and aid comparison. First ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Planning for Ethnic Tourism

    by Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social benefits it can also significantly impact traditional cultures, ways of life and the sense of identity of ethnic groups. There is growing concern in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Media and the City

    Cosmopolitanism and Difference

    by Myria Georgiou ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent. As a space of intense communication and difference, the global city forces us to think about the challenges of living in close ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • A Landscape of Travel

    The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China

    by Jenny T. Chio ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805061While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the ... Read more

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