Roots with Wings
Impacts of Tourism-Induced Mobility on Individuals and Family Ties among the Miao in China’s Individualization Process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xianghong Feng (Eastern Michigan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-130 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00977004231156824 |
| OpenAlex | W4367297441 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
This article looks at the impacts of mobility on individuals and their family ties in tourist destination communities, paying attention to the individualization process among the rural, ethnic minority population in contemporary China. Based on my decade-long ethnography in Fenghuang county, Hunan province, I explore how the rapid rise of tourism-induced mobility has brought individual autonomy and collective morality under constant negotiation among previously clan-based people, and what the course and consequences of ongoing individualization are for the non-Han population in China. I argue that individuals’ greater mobility may enhance, rather than diminish, the importance of family, and that this is especially true for the rural, ethnic minority population in China. Their experience of dealing with individualization also reveals that the effect of social structure is to some extent unchanged, representing a case of “embedded individualization
Autonomy · China · Clan · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Family ties · Genealogy · Geographic mobility · Geography · Kinship · Modernization theory · Negotiation · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
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Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
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Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era
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Intergenerational emotion and solidarity in transitional China
Protesting power
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From Covert to Overt
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Risk society
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Second modernity as a research agenda
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Varieties of second modernity
Beyond class and nation
Pioneering Mobilities
Gender and Hmong Women's Handicrafts in Fenghuang's 'Tourism Great Leap Forward,' China
Family and Mobility in Second Modernity
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |