Heritage Tourism in China

Modernity, Identity and Sustainability

By (author) Hongliang Yan

Publication date:

25 January 2017

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845415938

This book offers new approaches and insights into the relationships between heritage tourism and notions of modernity, identity building and sustainable development in China. It demonstrates that the role of the state, politics, institutional arrangements and tradition have a considerable impact on perceptions of these notions. The volume contributes to current debates on tradition and modernity; the study of heritage tourism; the negotiated power between stakeholders in tourism planning and policy-making and the study of China’s society. The approach and findings of the book are of value to those interested in the continuities and changes in Chinese society and to graduate students and researchers in tourism, cultural studies and China studies.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

1. Tourism, Modernity and Identity Building

2. China’s Tourism and Heritage Tourism Development

3. Traditional and Political Philosophies and Heritage Tourism

4. Governance, Tourism Development and the Heritage Sites

5. Representations of Modernity through Heritage Tourism

6. Tourism, Sustainable Development and the Four Heritage Sites

7. Conclusions

References

Hongliang Yan has produced a deep, historical and philosophically informed study of the development and governance of heritage tourism in China that reveals complex synergies and tensions between tradition and modernity, continuity and change. The focus and framework that underpins this excellent and important book will be of critical interest to students, policy-makers and practitioners of heritage tourism.