1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910309744703321

Autore

Chio Jenny

Titolo

A landscape of travel : the work of tourism in rural ethnic China / / Jenny Chio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, Washington : , : University of Washington Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-295-80506-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Disciplina

338.4/79151

Soggetti

Rural tourism - China

Ethnicity - China

China Ethnic relations

China Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword by Stevan Harrell""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Map of China""; ""Introduction - Landscape, Mobility, Visuality""; ""1 | Similar, with Minor Differences - A Tale of Two Villages""; ""2 | Peasant Family Happiness - A New Socialist Countryside""; ""3 | Leave the Fields without Leaving the Countryside - The Orders of Mobility""; ""4 | "Take a Picture with Us - "The Politics of Appearance""; ""5 | The Ability to Be Different - Socialities and Subjectivities""; ""Conclusion - Upper Jidao, Meet Ping'an""; ""Glossary of Chinese Characters""; ""Notes""

""References""""Index""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783189403321

Autore

Gelder Ken <1955, >

Titolo

Reading the vampire / / Ken Gelder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-89533-X

1-134-89534-8

0-203-13205-X

1-280-33576-9

Descrizione fisica

xi, 161 p

Collana

Popular fictions series

Disciplina

809.3/9375

Soggetti

Vampires in literature

Vampire films - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Ethnic vampires : Transylvania and beyond -- 2. Vampires in Greece : Byron and Polidori -- 3. Vampires and the uncanny : Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' -- 4. Reading Dracula -- 5. Vampires and cinema : from Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' -- 6. Vampires in the (old) new world : Anne Rice's vampire chronicles -- 7. Vampire blockbusters : Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Brian Aldiss and S.P. Somtow.