Tourism and Museums in China

Graburn, Nelson; Jin, Lu

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“…Previous academic studies on the sustainable development of traditional villages have focused on traditional village tourism business models, analysis of traditional village tourism resources, community conflicts, and community interests in tourism sites [4,5]. Studies involving residents' perceptions mainly focus on factors affecting the perceptions and attitudes of residents in tourist places, related theories, and analytical methods [6].…”

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Exploring Residents’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Tourism Development in Traditional Villages: The Lens of Stakeholder Theory

2021

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As Chinese traditional villages are receiving increasing attention from the country, society and business in terms of sustainable tourism development, their residents’ perceptions have not been thoroughly investigated. To contribute to the literature, this qualitative study, which was based on stakeholder theory, conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 different stakeholders in Hongcun, one of the most well-known traditional villages in China. Using grounded theory approach, this study found that residents’ perceptions and attitudes of sustainable development differed in four main areas—economic, environmental, social, and cultural—and several sub-themes were developed to influence these four areas. The study results have important theoretical and practical implications for current sustainable tourism development in traditional villages. In particular, these results have substantial value for the country, society, and business levels with respect to developing traditional village sustainable tourism based on the perceptions and attitudes of the residents.

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“…While museums are actively trying to be more involved in urban life, the aesthetic perspective of museums also gets projected onto urban space. Examples abound in Chinese cities, such as Xi’an and its Terracotta Army, Jingdezhen and its Imperial Kiln Museum or Ningbo’s Yinzhou Museum clothed in the gray tiles from Jiangnan houses demolished for modernization (Graburn and Jin, 2017: pp. 12–13, Figure 5).…”

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Curating pasts: musealization and tourism in Chinese cities

Luo,

Graburn

2023

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Purpose China has been going through a “museum boom” paralleling the domestic tourism boom since 2000; such growth changed the cultural landscape; museums became a vital characteristic of some Chinese cities for both residents and tourists. Encouraged by this growth, the more ambitious “All-for-one Museum (全域博物馆)” was proposed. The physical boundary between museums and living spaces is infinite ambiguity, challenging the idea of museums as “heterotopias.” This study aims to explore the musealization of urban spaces in the context of anthropology and museology, scrutinizing the cultural-political intentions and meanings of these developments, and seeks to ignite further investigation into the reconstruction of historical imaginaries for tourists and urban populations across related disciplines. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines two cases in Chinese metropolises, Beijing and Shanghai, to illustrate this development of musealization, that is, how the cities actively leverage museological values and methods to connect with their past. In the Beijing case, the authors explore how the local government is leading the effort to musealize the city; in the Shanghai case, they will see how tourists, especially dweller-tourists, navigate through a curated past story in the city and connect their own experience, memory and identity with the place. Findings The all-for-one museum creates a museal layer projected onto the bigger urban space, even though the authenticity of the “past” is challenged by the modernization development of the city. The authors also find out that for some tourists (especially dweller-tourists), an existential sense of authenticity plays a more significant role as they not only seek to sightsee the past of the city but also to take part in its creation. Originality/value This paper discusses two kinds of musealization in cosmopolitan cities of Beijing and Shanghai: top-down and bottom-up. It approaches questions about the musealization of urban spaces from the perspectives of anthropology and museology, and discusses musealization in the specific historical context of China’s modernization process.

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Tibetan Healing Traditions, Scientific Commodification, and Cultural Identity

Vargas-O’Bryan

2021

Chinese Medicine and Transnational Transition During the Modern Era

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Tourism and Museums in China

Cited by 8 publications

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Exploring Residents’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Tourism Development in Traditional Villages: The Lens of Stakeholder Theory

Exploring Residents’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Tourism Development in Traditional Villages: The Lens of Stakeholder Theory

Curating pasts: musealization and tourism in Chinese cities

Tibetan Healing Traditions, Scientific Commodification, and Cultural Identity

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