Mobility and cultural authority in contemporary China / Pál Nyíri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nyíri, Pál.

Series:

Donald R. Ellegood International Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--China.

Migration, Internal.

Migration, Internal--Government policy--China.

China--Cultural policy.

China.

Physical Description:

231 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.Pál Nyíri 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.

Contents:

Internal migration in reform China

International migration from China

Tourism in contemporary China

The usefulness of mobility : producing modern citizens

The dangers of mobility : disciplining the traveler

Conflicting impulses : mobility encouraged and hindered

Conclusion : mobility and cultural control.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295800349

0295800348

OCLC:

757733006