Seeing like a Minority

Political Tourism and the Struggle for Recognition in China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8106591
AutoresUradyn E Bulag (0000-0003-3228-9729, Bridge University, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume41
Fascículo4
Páginas133-158
Data de publicação2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Current Chinese Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1868-1026 • E-ISSN: 1868-4874
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/186810261204100405
OpenAlexW2911799347
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas22

This paper outlines the operation of what may be called “political tourism” in China, and analyses the role of the sensorial technology of “seeing” in the kind of narrative this tourism engenders. Beginning in 1950, the newly established People's Republic of China launched an annual tradition of inviting non-communist elites to attend the May Day and the National Day (1 October) parades on Tiananmen Square in Beijing and in some metropolitan cities. Unlike contemporary ethnic tourism, wherein minorities and their cultures become the objects of the tourist gaze, Chinese political tourism aims at bringing minority leaders out of their putative “isolation”, treating them with hospitality, and ultimately making them “see with their own eyes” China's “true face

Beijing · China · Communism · Ethnic group · Face (sociological concept · Geography · Hospitality · Metropolitan area · People's Republic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law