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Tourism and prosperity in Miao land : power and inequality in rural ethnic China / Xianghong Feng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feng, Xianghong, author.
- Series:
- Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society
- Anthropology of tourism : heritage, mobility, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hmong (Asian people)--China--Fenghuang Xian--Social conditions.
- Hmong (Asian people).
- Tourism--Social aspects--China--Fenghuang Xian.
- Tourism.
- Tourism--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Fenghuang Xian (China)--Social conditions.
- Fenghuang Xian (China).
- Hmong (Asian people)--Social conditions.
- China--Fenghuang Xian.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2017.
- Summary:
- In Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has reshaped the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents. Using ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of a decade, Feng examines the cultural reconstructions of space, ethnicity, gender, and morality within changing power structures. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, Asian studies, and tourism studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : into the field
- The place : the mountain, the river, and the people
- "Scaling-up" : McDonaldizing village tours
- Spatial transformations : constructing tourism sites
- From tourism marketplace to village homes : gendered work among the local Miao
- Prosperity for whom? : tourism and the poverty of resources
- Before and after the merger : everyday resistance in village life
- Competition and (in)equality : the rise and fall of village family restaurants
- Conclusion "small" as a solution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Feng, Xianghong, author. Tourism and prosperity in Miao land
- ISBN:
- 9781498509954
- 1498509959
- OCLC:
- 979567644
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