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Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China (Hardcover, New)
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Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China (Hardcover, New)
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Chinese citizens are becoming increasingly mobile, both inside
China and abroad, as migrant workers, tourists, and students. China
is caught between perceived benefits and dangers posed by mobility,
complicated by the government's own conflicting impulses to support
and discourage it. Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary
China demonstrates this intricate balance through an in-depth look
at patterns of migration and state response.--P l Ny ri argues that
the loosening of China's restrictions on internal and international
migration, its promotion of domestic tourism, and its increasingly
positive portrayal of migrants all follow a similar logic in which
mobility comes to epitomize a new and modern China. Yet the
loosening of administrative control is compensated by the
imposition of cultural control over how mobility is represented and
how mobile citizens make sense of their new experiences, as well as
by continued restrictions on types of movement that are seen as
undesirable.--With ever-growing popular and academic scrutiny of
the topic of national and international migration, this compact,
engrossing, and timely study is well poised to be read widely by
scholars interested in globalization, nationalization,
modernization, tourism, and modern China. --P l Ny ri is professor
of global history from an anthropological perspective at the Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam. Among his publications are Scenic Spots:
Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority and, with Joana
Breidenbach, Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer
Habits.
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