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  • Travels in Paradox

    Remapping Tourism

    de Kathleen Adams, Tim Edensor, Steven Flusty, Jessica Jacobs, Pauliina Raento, John Urry, Soile Veijola, Ning Wang, Mike Crang ...
    This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. The book examines how ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Making Cultural Cities in Asia

    Mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism

    Edición de June Wang, Tim Oakes, Yang Yang ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process through the lens of assemblage: ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Translocal China

    Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space

    Edición de Tim Oakes, Louisa Schein ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China’s reform era development within the concept of translocality.A key element of spatial change in today’s China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and many others. But translocality doesn’t just mean people. It is crucially constituted by the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Real Tourism

    Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture

    Edición de Claudio Minca, Tim Oakes ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in social theory concerning such diverse topics as postcolonialism, mobility, and postmodernism, to name just ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Faiths on Display

    Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State

    Edición de Tim Oakes, Donald S. Sutton ...
    By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Over the past several decades, China has experienced a rapid expansion of religious spaces and activities. More recently, a growing middle-class urban society has fueled an upsurge in Chinese domestic tourism. ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Tourism and Modernity in China

    de Tim Oakes ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    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 ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China

    A View from Lijiang

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    de Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Leer más

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  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    de Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Edición de Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • New Masters, New Servants

    Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

    de Hairong Yan ...
    On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Cosmologies of Credit

    Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

    de Julie Y. Chu ...
    Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD