The Rise of Tourism in China

Social and Cultural Change

By (author) Yiping Li

Publication date:

15 May 2023

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845418908

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of China’s tourism development from 1992 onwards, focusing on the social-cultural change that accompanied the rise of tourism. It examines both the economic benefits and sociocultural impacts of tourism and argues that tourism sustainability depends on a delicate balance between economic and social-cultural interests which could manifest differently among the stakeholders of various interests. It also explores, through both theoretical and empirical analysis, how travel connects people and places through the processes of tourist imagination and consumption. The volume portrays how contemporary discourses fuse with individual histories to formulate the ways in which tourists understand China. It will be a useful resource for students and scholars in human geography, tourism management, leisure and recreation, and social sciences.

Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Making or Remaking People and Places through Tourism
Chapter 1. The Appeal of Distant Places: China’s Inbound Tourism in the 1990s
Chapter 2. Orientalism Revisited: Ethnic Tourism of China versus Canada
Chapter 3. Tourism Impacts in China after Two Decades of Development
Chapter 4. Community Tourism and China’s Dilemma of Modernisation
Chapter 5. Red Tourism and China’s Communist Identity
Chapter 6. The Impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Chapter 7. Leisure Shopping and the Hong Kong–China Relationship
Chapter 8. Island Festivals and Sense of Place: The Hong Kong Experience
Chapter 9. Linguistic Landscape, Tourism and an Island Place Making
Chapter 10. Tourism and Social-Cultural Change in China
Conclusion: Applying Ethnography to China Tourism Research
References
Index

In this seminal treatise Dr Li enlists his in-depth studies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada, and applies ethnographical methods to interpret the results from a humanistic perspective. He successfully steers the scholarly inquiry from the traditional deterministic towards the existential-phenomenological approach. The book skilfully lifts the value of qualitative case studies to the high-order theoretical plane and makes an original contribution to tourism knowledge.