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Scenic Spots - Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority (Paperback)
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Scenic Spots - Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority (Paperback)
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Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People's Republic of
China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist
industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in
traditional Chinese culture. Scenic Spots is an engaging
exploration of why Chinese tourists pursue certain kinds of
experiences, what they make of them, and how their experiences and
interpretations are shaped by the state. Working from within a
Chinese cultural framework, Pal Nyiri argues that China's brand of
tourism is distinct from the traditions of both Western bourgeois
tourism, which values authenticity, and Soviet tourism, with its
emphasis on rugged and selfless experience. In China, tourism
development is guided by the state, and "scenic spots" (jingdian)
and theme parks are used to demonstrate China's heroic past and as
tools of patriotic education and modernization - or as forms of
"indoctritainment." The tourist site is perceived as a product,
and, as such, it is bounded, approved, rated, and consumed. In a
style both straightforward and provocative, Nyiri argues that the
uniformity and undisguised commercialism of Chinese tourist sites
are a direct result of the state's ultimate authority to determine
the meaning of landscape and to control culture. Scenic Spots
serves as a lens through which to explore mechanisms of cultural
control and resistance in a highly commercialized sphere of
everyday life in contemporary China.
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