The Political Economy of Ethnicity in Yunnan's Lijiang Basin

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2174576
AutoresSydney D White (autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen11
Número2
Páginas142-158
Fecha de publicación2010-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442211003727989
OpenAlexW1992395093
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas25

The present article explores how post-1949 political economic changes and changes in representations of cultural identity have been experienced by both the village residents of Longquan and the town residents of Dayanzhen in north-west Yunnan's predominantly Naxi Lijiang basin. Longquan is now at the epicentre of the new ‘Shuhe’ epic tourism village development complex, whereas the gucheng (or ‘old town’) part of Dayanzhen (or Lijiang Town) was essentially the epicentre for an even earlier epic tourism town development project. The impact of this recent large-scale (primarily domestic) ethnic tourism is contextualised within the entrenched urban–rural divide that lies between these two locales. Implications for state, popular culture and local representations of Naxi ethnic identity, gender, rurality and class are examined

Archaeology · China · Economy · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Naxi · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Rurality · Tourism · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies