Shengrong Chen

Biographic Data

ID3984952
NAMEShengrong Chen
GIVEN NAMESShengrong
FAMILY NAMEChen
SIGNATURECHEN S
AFFILIATIONSSichuan Normal University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Encounters with cuteness

    Open AccessL-P Liu, Shengrong ChenARTICLETourist Studies2025References: 23

    Cute animals attract visitors. This study adopts a multispecies ethnographic approach to deconstruct the anthropocentric, unidirectional construction of “cuteness.” It explores how giant pandas’ cuteness shapes tourists’ cognition and emotional experiences in wildlife tourism, while motivating a commitment to conservation. Cuteness, as a form of agency enacted by giant pandas, manifests their “agentic subject” status through their appearance, beh…

  • Tourists as commodities in below-cost tours

    Open AccessShengrong Chen, Jiarui ZhuARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2025References: 41

  • Tourists' construction of diverse identities with natural disaster dark heritage sites

    Shengrong Chen, Honggang XuARTICLETourism Geographies2023Cited by: 5References: 52

    Intertwined with death, pain, suffering, and disaster, dark heritage is multi-faceted, controversial and has profound social influence. This paper attempts to uncover the identity-making experiences of natural disaster dark heritage tourists using a classic Chinese dark heritage site—the '5.12' Wenchuan Earthquake Epicentre Memorial Museum. Using content analysis of 3,006 messages left behind in the museum's visitors' book from 2012 to 2019, we u…

  • The moral gaze in commercialized dark tourism

    Shengrong Chen, Honggang XuARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2021

    The moral issues related to dark tourism, which commercializes death and disaster, have aroused heated academic debate. This paper adopts an analytical framework that explores the moral gaze of tourists in the context of commercialized dark tourism in the time and space dimensions. The findings show that different orientations to the past or present (in the time dimension) and different understandings of dark sites and dark places (in the space d…

  • Influence of Place Identity on Residents’ Attitudes to Dark Tourism

    Shengrong Chen, Suosheng Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of China Tourism Research2017References: 9

    Underpinning the importance of place identity, this study investigates its role on residents’ attitude to dark tourism. Deploying a survey of post-disaster residents in a town in Southwest China, the current study indicates that place-based self-esteem and self-efficacy are salient in influencing residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and support for dark tourism. Further, place identity’s other two principles—distinctiveness and continuity—ar…

  • From fighting against death to commemorating the dead at Tangshan Earthquake heritage sites

    Shengrong Chen, Honggang XuARTICLEJournal of Tourism and Cultural…2017Cited by: 7References: 14

    While previous studies have emphasized the social construction aspect in man-made disasters, this study applies this framework to natural disasters. By focusing on three different commemorative heritage sites of the 1976 Great Tangshan Earthquake, constructed over the years in China, we argue that similar to man-made disasters, the construction of natural disaster dark heritage is also influenced by political, social and cultural factors. From fi…

  • The Features and Trends of University Development in Australia and China

    Open AccessShengrong ChenARTICLEHigher Education Policy2007