03940oam 22008054a 450 99643304970331620210915045028.090-485-3682-010.1515/9789048536825(CKB)4100000006673826(MiAaPQ)EBC5521574(OCoLC)1055046753(MdBmJHUP)muse76735(DE-B1597)513245(DE-B1597)9789048536825(ScCtBLL)2d8d96f6-4a5f-4b04-8af1-d8a9c1154865(EXLCZ)99410000000667382620180907d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHeritage and Romantic Consumption in ChinaYujie ZhuAmsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (169 pages)Asian Heritages494-6298-567-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index.Frontmatter --Table of Contents --List of Illustrations --Prologue: Somewhere in Time --1. Introduction --2. Stage --3. Scripts --4. Local Actors --5. Guests --6. After the Show --7. Conclusion --Epilogue: The Show Must Go On --Acknowledgments --Bibliography --IndexThe drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding ceremonies are performed for the ethnic tourism industry in Lijiang, a World Heritage town in southwest China. This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other. The wedding performances in Lijiang not only serve as a heritage 'product' but show how the heritage and tourism industry helps to shape people's values, dreams and expectations. This book also explores the rise of 'romantic consumerism' in contemporary China. Chinese dissatisfaction with the urban mundane leads to romanticized interests in practices and people deemed to be natural, ethnic, spiritual and aesthetic, and a search for tradition and authenticity. But what, exactly, are tradition and authenticity, and what happens to them when they are turned into performance?Asian heritages (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;4.Soziokultureller WandelgndTourismusgndIdealisierunggndBrauchtumgndKulturerbegndNationale MinderheitgndTradition (Philosophy)fast(OCoLC)fst01153957Heritage tourismfast(OCoLC)fst00955465Tradition (Philosophy)Heritage tourismChinaChinagndChinafastElectronic books. China.Cultural heritage.ethnic tourism.performance.romantic consumption.Soziokultureller WandelTourismusIdealisierungBrauchtumKulturerbeNationale MinderheitTradition (Philosophy)Heritage tourism.Tradition (Philosophy)Heritage tourism338.4/79151Zhu Yujie1025165International Institute for Asian Studies.MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996433049703316Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China2437184UNISA