Culture and ideology at an invented place / by Zhang Pinggong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Pinggong.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amusement parks--China--Shenzhen Shi.

Amusement parks.

Globalization--Social aspects--China.

Globalization.

Overseas Chinese Town (Shenzhen Shi, China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Being a special kind of landscape, the theme park has become one of major subjects in interdisciplinary studies and received increasing scholarly attention in the past few decades. Perspectives have varied from American approaches which treat the theme park as the production base of the American Dream to various interpretation of the tourist space in semiotic, structural and post-modernistic approaches. Other studies of the theme park have been conducted in a practical way with a focus in eco...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-237) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-19054-7

9786612190544

1-4438-0671-4

OCLC:

827209152