Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land: Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China

Xianghong Feng

doi:10.5771/9781498509961

Summary

In Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has reshaped the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents. Using ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of a decade, Feng examines the cultural reconstructions of space, ethnicity, gender, and morality within changing power structures. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, Asian studies, and tourism studies.

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright Year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-0995-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-0996-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction: Into the Field No access
1. Chapter One. The Place: The Mountain, The River, and The People No access
2. Chapter Two. “Scaling-Up”: McDonaldizing Village Tours No access
1. Chapter Three. Spatial Transformations: Constructing Tourism Sites No access
2. Chapter Four. From Tourism Marketplace to Village Homes: Gendered Work among the Local Miao No access
3. Chapter Five. Prosperity for Whom?: Tourism and the Poverty of Resources No access
1. Chapter Six. Before and After the Merger: Everyday Resistance in Village Life No access
2. Chapter Seven. Competition and (In)equality” The Rise and Fall of Village Family Restaurants No access
Conclusion. “Small” as a Solution No access Pages 147 - 152
Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 182
About the Author No access Pages 183 - 184