Domesticating Tourism Anthropology in China

Zhu, Yujie; Jin, Lu; Graburn, Nelson

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“…Han Chinese are described as modern and civilised; ethnic people are presented as backward, feminine and exotic (Gladney, 1994;Diamond, 1988;Schein, 1997). Consequently, a self-other relationship between Han Chinese and minority groups are created to motivate people from economically advanced areas to seek the 'backward' and 'exotic' others within their own nation (Zhu et al, 2017). Visiting these ethnic minorities can be an act of curiosity or 'internal orientalism' (Schein, 1997), and an opportunity to develop business privilege in local tourism industry.…”

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“…Moreover, and due to the loosening restriction of hukou registration regulation since 1980s, migrant labourers from rural areas are enticed to work in the cities through a temporary work permit, that allows them to equally access urban welfare in certain cities (Zhao, 1999). All of these new practices of mobility have become one of the critical components of the cultural changes that took place in Chinese modern society in late 20th and early 21st centuries (Zhu et al, 2017).…”

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Lifestyle mobility: shifting conception of home in modern China

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2018

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Lifestyle mobility: shifting conception of home in modern China

Zhu

2018

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“…In her reflections on the anthropological study of tourism in Mexico, López Santillán (2017) refers to applied, development-related anthropology as one of the key areas of re search in the country, as do Zhu et al (2017) in the case of China, where "tourism anthro pology facilitates Chinese ethnic tourism on the ground by engaging with applied and de velopment projects" (2017,732). The linkage between tourism and development, as dis cussed in "The 'IMPACT' OF TOURISM ON HOST SOCIETIES," is a long-standing one.…”

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Encountering Tourism

Simoni¹

2020

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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Tourism affects the lives of an increasing number of people across the world and has been growing and diversifying immensely since the turn of the 21st century. Anthropological approaches to tourism have also expanded from the early contributions of the 1970s, which tended to focus on the nature of tourism and its “impact” on peripheral host communities. These first interventions see anthropologists theorizing tourism as a “secular ritual,” studying its workings as a process of “acculturation,” and countering macroeconomic views of tourism’s potential for the economic development of peripheral societies by underscoring instead its neocolonial and imperialist features. Tourism is linked to the exacerbation of center-periphery dependencies, seen as an agent of cultural commoditization and responsible for the promotion and dissemination of stereotypical images of people and places. Moving beyond the impact paradigm, which has the disadvantage of portraying tourism as an external, disembedded, and imposed force on a passive population, constructivist approaches highlight its creative appropriations and integral role in the reinvention of culture and traditions. Anthropologists pay attention to the varied range of actors and agencies involved in tourism, accounting for the multi-scalar dimensions of this phenomenon and the uneven circulation of images, discourses, and resources it engenders. Tourism exerts a powerful global influence on how alterity and difference are framed and understood in the contemporary world and contributes to the valorization and dissemination of particular views of culture, identity, and heritage. Tourism is increasingly intertwined with processes of heritage-making, whose study helps advance anthropological reflections on cultural property, material culture, and the memorialization of the past. A key source of livelihood for a growing number of people worldwide, tourism is also becoming more and more associated with development projects in which applied anthropologists are also enrolled as experts and consultants. The study of the tourism-development nexus continues to be a key area of theoretical innovation and has helped advance anthropological debates on North–South relations, dominant responses to poverty and inequality, and their entanglements with neoliberal forms of governance. Given its diffuse and distributed character, tourism and touristification have been approached as forms of ordering that affect and restructure an ever-growing range of entities, and whose effects are increasingly difficult to tease out from concomitant societal processes. The ubiquitous implementations of tourism policies and projects, the influx of tourists, and the debates, reactions, and resistances these generate underscore, however, the importance of uncovering the ways tourism and its effects are being concretely identified, invoked, acted upon, and confronted by its various protagonists. Research on tourism has the potential to contribute to disciplinary debates on many key areas and notions of concern for anthropology. Culture, ethnicity, identity, alterity, heritage, mobility, labor, commerce, hospitality, intimacy, development, and the environment are among the notions and domains increasingly affected and transformed by tourism. The study of tourism helps understand how such transformations occur, uncovering their features and orientations, while also shedding light on the societal struggles that are at stake in them. The analysis of past and current research shows the scope of the theoretical and methodological debates and of the realms of intervention to which anthropological scholarship on tourism can contribute. .

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“…These stereotypes are promoted to both foreign and, since domestic tourism began in 1980s, to Chinese tourists as well. A self-other relationship between Han Chinese and minority groups has been created to motivate Chinese Han to travel around the country and seek the 'backward' and 'exotic' others within their own nation (Zhu, Jin, and Graburn 2017). Visiting these ethnic minorities can be an act of curiosity and offers a form of exotic travel that doesn't require tourists to leave China.…”

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Romantic Consumption and Heritage Performance in China

Zhu¹

2018

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Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. a World Heritage town -in conscious homage to the likes of Rock and Goullart. They publish their impressions in blogs, journals, and websites, reinforcing the image of this peripheral region as a place of authenticity, ancientness, unbroken tradition, and untrammelled nature.Rock and Goullart's stories, along with Hilton's novel Lost Horizon (later a film), the documentaries, the blogs, the Lonely Planet guidebooks and the rest have helped to construe Lijiang as a 'stage' on which visitors can enact fantasies of exploration and discovery. The authenticity of these stories does not affect their impact on the Western imagination -and as such, they are now embraced by the state to promote the area's romantic image for purposes of tourism -to the extent that a number of Chinese as well now subscribe to the same mythology.

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Domesticating Tourism Anthropology in China

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

Lifestyle mobility: shifting conception of home in modern China

Lifestyle mobility: shifting conception of home in modern China

Encountering Tourism

Romantic Consumption and Heritage Performance in China

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