Playing upon Fantasy
Women, Ethnic Tourism and the Politics of Identity Construction in Contemporary Xishuang Banna, China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jing Li (0000-0001-7792-4322, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 51-65 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourism Recreation Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0250-8281 • E-ISSN: 2320-0308 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02508281.2003.11081404 |
| OpenAlex | W2004571131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
Manchunman has been promoted as a domestic ethnic tourism destination for tourists expecting a pristine, feminine and mysterious Dai culture in the Xishuang Banna Dai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture (hereafter, Banna), P.R. China. Tourism development turns the village not only into a destination to meet tourists' thirst for cultural exoticness but also a frontier of interacting with the outside world for Dai villagers. Women in the village are actively engaged in tourism business through receiving tourists to visit their Dai-styled bamboo houses and selling tourists crafts at home. Rather than being a passive symbol of beauty and simplicity for tourist consumption, these women display skills and strategies of marketing and trading Dai culture as desirable commodities. Manchunman women as a group actively shape the construction of Dai-ness through tourism development as consumable ‘Others.’ The villagers confront their interactions between a staged self and a self in reality. The significance of women's performance in such a process underlines the importance of embracing gender analysis as a perspective in tourism and also of hearing gendered voices through a focus on women's business practices. This article shows that claiming Dai identity among these women occurs in a multilayered and heterogeneous self-construction process. They carry out the practices of being contemporary Dai women through continuously creating value-laden distances between the Dai and the Han Chinese while demonstrating diversity in self-representation due to their various business experiences in tourism
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |