Chin-Ee Ong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chin-Ee Ong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chin-Ee |
| FAMILY NAME | Ong |
| SIGNATURE | ONG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Constructivist perspective and museum experiences
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork at Luoyang Museum in China, this article examines how Gen-Z tourists experience museums through the interplay of curatorial authority, social trends, and personal performance. Using in-depth interviews and participant observation, the study analyses how young visitors consume, negotiate, and sometimes resist authorised museum narratives in ways shaped by wider cultural practices such as Hanfu dressing, photography…
Tourism narratives in art, ethnography and (social) media
Assembling tigers, dragons and hells
Emerging from the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic and building back better
Four papers on tourism in Asia constitute this issue.Thus, the first issue of 2023 offers our readers a platform to reflect upon Asian critical tourism scholarship and the journal's support of this growing area within tourist studies. A call for Asian tourism scholarship in post-COVID-19 or still-viral timesPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism economies in Asia were booming in ways unimagined previously.References to 'The Asian Century', a ter…
Tourism mobilities, tourist performances
State-directed tourism urbanisation in China's Hengqin
Reflecting on Hospitality & Society
This editorial is the first of a two-part critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years in relation to the original aims and ambitions. Drawing primarily upon the Dimensions database, a field of research analysis indicates the journal achieving multidisciplinary coverage through its publications with the four most popular fields being: studies in human society; sociology; commerce, management, tourism and s…
The politics of remembering and forgetting
Theming Asia
‘Cuteifying’ spaces and staging marine animals for Chinese middle-class consumption
Theming Asia
This paper introduces a special issue on Theme Parks in Asia with reflections on how the various theoretical ideas on theming and theme parks that are found in the social science literature can help us to understand the proliferation of theming and theme parks in contemporary Asia. How does theming create a specific spatial and social form that has meaning in a transforming Asia? We trace here the rising importance of theming in places of consump…
Cuteifying' spaces and staging marine animals for Chinese middle-class consumption
In this paper, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai is considered an aestheticised space for the growing Chinese middle class. Located within the booming and fast-urbanising Pearl River Delta, the theme park is a sizeable project consisting of rides, marine mammal enclosures and a well-equipped state-of-the-art circus. Utilising ethnography, including visitor interviews, and discourse analysis of websites, mobile apps and promotional materials, the …
Simulacra and simulation
This paper examines an unusual type of ‘cultural theme park’, one that is not based on simulating existing cultural diversity or historical places, but based in some senses on a ‘double simulation’. The theme park is based on an historical painting assumed to represent the North Song Dynasty period in Kaifeng, China; however, it is a representation that historians argue may never have existed. Utilising on-site interviews and participant observat…
Light festivals, policy mobilities and urban tourism
International audience
Warfare tourism experiences and national identity
The power of space
The historic hotel as ‘quasi-freedom machine’
Existing research on historic hotels has identified their role as key projections of community ideals and place identities, as ‘hip’/creative business ventures and as dark tourism sites of ‘darkness', difficulties and dissonances. However, there has been less discussion on what happens when these intentions and operations come together in a single historic hotel. Specifically, we argue that the historical Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam was recently ada…
Power-knowledge and tour-guide training
Disciplined Mobility and the Emotional Subject in Royal Dutch Lloyd's Early Twentieth Century Passenger Shipping Network
This paper examines the disciplined mobility and emotional geographies of “between-deck” passengers in Royal Dutch Lloyd's early Twentieth Century passenger shipping network. Specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the network was established and with the efforts made to maintain it. It is found that such a disciplinary network furthers the firm's goal of shipping healthy and productive bodies for corporate profits and that transhipm…
The Post-Mao gazes
Projecting Post-colonial Conditions at Shanghai Expo 2010, China
Recent years have seen increased academic attention in urban studies on the flows of city artefacts and images. Conceptualised as ‘immutable mobiles’, the Macao Pavilion and its associated objects on show at Shanghai Expo 2010 are examined for the ways they encouraged and regulated uniformed flows of people and city images. Specifically, these immutable mobiles projected Macao’s lofty dreams of paradoxical affinity to and difference from mainland…
The heritage-scape
The heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and tourism, by Michael A. Di Giovine, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2008, 542 pp., £59.95 (hbk), ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1434-6/£27.95 (pbk), ISBN-13: 978-0
The Beach, the gaze and film tourism
Based on the book by Alex Garland, Twentieth Century Fox's movie, The Beach, proffers critical views on the effects of traveller tourism in Thailand. Yet the movie is itself bound up with tourist practices in a variety of ways. In this article, we are concerned with how such intertwining extends beyond `film tourism', conventionally conceived. In particular, we seek to elaborate the modification of the Maya Bay set(ting) for The Beach as part a b…
The Post-Mao gazes
The power of space
The Beach, the gaze and film tourism
Based on the book by Alex Garland, Twentieth Century Fox's movie, The Beach, proffers critical views on the effects of traveller tourism in Thailand. Yet the movie is itself bound up with tourist practices in a variety of ways. In this article, we are concerned with how such intertwining extends beyond `film tourism', conventionally conceived. In particular, we seek to elaborate the modification of the Maya Bay set(ting) for The Beach as part a b…
Theming Asia
This paper introduces a special issue on Theme Parks in Asia with reflections on how the various theoretical ideas on theming and theme parks that are found in the social science literature can help us to understand the proliferation of theming and theme parks in contemporary Asia. How does theming create a specific spatial and social form that has meaning in a transforming Asia? We trace here the rising importance of theming in places of consump…
Warfare tourism experiences and national identity
Light festivals, policy mobilities and urban tourism
International audience
Simulacra and simulation
This paper examines an unusual type of ‘cultural theme park’, one that is not based on simulating existing cultural diversity or historical places, but based in some senses on a ‘double simulation’. The theme park is based on an historical painting assumed to represent the North Song Dynasty period in Kaifeng, China; however, it is a representation that historians argue may never have existed. Utilising on-site interviews and participant observat…
The historic hotel as ‘quasi-freedom machine’
Existing research on historic hotels has identified their role as key projections of community ideals and place identities, as ‘hip’/creative business ventures and as dark tourism sites of ‘darkness', difficulties and dissonances. However, there has been less discussion on what happens when these intentions and operations come together in a single historic hotel. Specifically, we argue that the historical Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam was recently ada…
Cuteifying' spaces and staging marine animals for Chinese middle-class consumption
In this paper, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai is considered an aestheticised space for the growing Chinese middle class. Located within the booming and fast-urbanising Pearl River Delta, the theme park is a sizeable project consisting of rides, marine mammal enclosures and a well-equipped state-of-the-art circus. Utilising ethnography, including visitor interviews, and discourse analysis of websites, mobile apps and promotional materials, the …
Power-knowledge and tour-guide training
Disciplined Mobility and the Emotional Subject in Royal Dutch Lloyd's Early Twentieth Century Passenger Shipping Network
This paper examines the disciplined mobility and emotional geographies of “between-deck” passengers in Royal Dutch Lloyd's early Twentieth Century passenger shipping network. Specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the network was established and with the efforts made to maintain it. It is found that such a disciplinary network furthers the firm's goal of shipping healthy and productive bodies for corporate profits and that transhipm…
Projecting Post-colonial Conditions at Shanghai Expo 2010, China
Recent years have seen increased academic attention in urban studies on the flows of city artefacts and images. Conceptualised as ‘immutable mobiles’, the Macao Pavilion and its associated objects on show at Shanghai Expo 2010 are examined for the ways they encouraged and regulated uniformed flows of people and city images. Specifically, these immutable mobiles projected Macao’s lofty dreams of paradoxical affinity to and difference from mainland…
Assembling tigers, dragons and hells
State-directed tourism urbanisation in China's Hengqin
The politics of remembering and forgetting
The Beach, the gaze and film tourism
Based on the book by Alex Garland, Twentieth Century Fox's movie, The Beach, proffers critical views on the effects of traveller tourism in Thailand. Yet the movie is itself bound up with tourist practices in a variety of ways. In this article, we are concerned with how such intertwining extends beyond `film tourism', conventionally conceived. In particular, we seek to elaborate the modification of the Maya Bay set(ting) for The Beach as part a b…
The heritage-scape
The heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and tourism, by Michael A. Di Giovine, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2008, 542 pp., £59.95 (hbk), ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1434-6/£27.95 (pbk), ISBN-13: 978-0
The Post-Mao gazes
Projecting Post-colonial Conditions at Shanghai Expo 2010, China
Recent years have seen increased academic attention in urban studies on the flows of city artefacts and images. Conceptualised as ‘immutable mobiles’, the Macao Pavilion and its associated objects on show at Shanghai Expo 2010 are examined for the ways they encouraged and regulated uniformed flows of people and city images. Specifically, these immutable mobiles projected Macao’s lofty dreams of paradoxical affinity to and difference from mainland…
The historic hotel as ‘quasi-freedom machine’
Existing research on historic hotels has identified their role as key projections of community ideals and place identities, as ‘hip’/creative business ventures and as dark tourism sites of ‘darkness', difficulties and dissonances. However, there has been less discussion on what happens when these intentions and operations come together in a single historic hotel. Specifically, we argue that the historical Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam was recently ada…
Power-knowledge and tour-guide training
Disciplined Mobility and the Emotional Subject in Royal Dutch Lloyd's Early Twentieth Century Passenger Shipping Network
This paper examines the disciplined mobility and emotional geographies of “between-deck” passengers in Royal Dutch Lloyd's early Twentieth Century passenger shipping network. Specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the network was established and with the efforts made to maintain it. It is found that such a disciplinary network furthers the firm's goal of shipping healthy and productive bodies for corporate profits and that transhipm…
Warfare tourism experiences and national identity
The power of space
Theming Asia
This paper introduces a special issue on Theme Parks in Asia with reflections on how the various theoretical ideas on theming and theme parks that are found in the social science literature can help us to understand the proliferation of theming and theme parks in contemporary Asia. How does theming create a specific spatial and social form that has meaning in a transforming Asia? We trace here the rising importance of theming in places of consump…
Cuteifying' spaces and staging marine animals for Chinese middle-class consumption
In this paper, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai is considered an aestheticised space for the growing Chinese middle class. Located within the booming and fast-urbanising Pearl River Delta, the theme park is a sizeable project consisting of rides, marine mammal enclosures and a well-equipped state-of-the-art circus. Utilising ethnography, including visitor interviews, and discourse analysis of websites, mobile apps and promotional materials, the …
Simulacra and simulation
This paper examines an unusual type of ‘cultural theme park’, one that is not based on simulating existing cultural diversity or historical places, but based in some senses on a ‘double simulation’. The theme park is based on an historical painting assumed to represent the North Song Dynasty period in Kaifeng, China; however, it is a representation that historians argue may never have existed. Utilising on-site interviews and participant observat…
Light festivals, policy mobilities and urban tourism
International audience
Theming Asia
‘Cuteifying’ spaces and staging marine animals for Chinese middle-class consumption
Reflecting on Hospitality & Society
This editorial is the first of a two-part critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years in relation to the original aims and ambitions. Drawing primarily upon the Dimensions database, a field of research analysis indicates the journal achieving multidisciplinary coverage through its publications with the four most popular fields being: studies in human society; sociology; commerce, management, tourism and s…
The politics of remembering and forgetting
State-directed tourism urbanisation in China's Hengqin
Emerging from the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic and building back better
Four papers on tourism in Asia constitute this issue.Thus, the first issue of 2023 offers our readers a platform to reflect upon Asian critical tourism scholarship and the journal's support of this growing area within tourist studies. A call for Asian tourism scholarship in post-COVID-19 or still-viral timesPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism economies in Asia were booming in ways unimagined previously.References to 'The Asian Century', a ter…
Tourism mobilities, tourist performances
Assembling tigers, dragons and hells
Tourism narratives in art, ethnography and (social) media
Constructivist perspective and museum experiences
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork at Luoyang Museum in China, this article examines how Gen-Z tourists experience museums through the interplay of curatorial authority, social trends, and personal performance. Using in-depth interviews and participant observation, the study analyses how young visitors consume, negotiate, and sometimes resist authorised museum narratives in ways shaped by wider cultural practices such as Hanfu dressing, photography…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Tourism (17 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Art (8 works)