Ethnic tourism in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23720749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Oakes (0000-0002-1176-3180, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4337/9781784717360.00020 |
| OpenAlex | W2802699542 |
| ISBN | 9781784717360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In chapter 13, Tim Oakes presents several key issues concerning the study of ethnic tourism in China today. Even though Chinese-language tourism scholarship has exploded since the mid-2000s, there remains a great deal of room for critical research on Chinese ethnic tourism. Noting the rise of independent tourism and leisure consumption in China, Oakes finds that ethnic tourism has expanded beyond the bounded geography of the ‘minority village’ and diffused into the realm of everyday consumption. Because of this, he argues, Chinese ethnic tourism can be approached and understood as a kind of urbanization. Much of his review is influenced by his own long-term experience studying ethnic tourism in one particular region of China, Guizhou Province. Oakes shows that in a clear reversal of the Mao era’s emphasis on urban centres as beacons of progressive socialist modernity in a wilderness of ‘ethnic backwardness’, cities and towns have been rebranding themselves – and reconstructing their built landscapes – as displays of village-style ethnic architecture and culture. At the same time, ethnic tourism has served as a conduit for greater state control over community-held assets, leading to alienation on multiple levels.
China · Consumption (sociology) · Economic geography · Economy · Ethnic group · Geography · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philippine History and Culture
Cultural settings and recommendations for small towns and villages to visit in China
Colony, passageway, scenic spot
Co-Creation Tourism in an Ancient Chinese Town
Poverty alleviation, community participation, and the issue of scale in ethnic tourism in China
Sensorial Place-Making in Ethnic Minority Areas
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |