LEADER 02620nam 2200409 450 001 9910737294003321 005 20240117043846.0 024 7 $a10.6069/9780295805061 035 $a(CKB)2560000000140391 035 $a(NjHacI)992560000000140391 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000140391 100 $a20221222d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA landscape of travel $ethe work of tourism in rural ethnic China /$fJenny Chio 210 1$aSeattle :$cUniversity of Washington Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (xxxi, 294 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aStudies on ethnic groups in China 311 $a0-295-99365-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aWhile the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person's leisure is another person's labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates the contested meanings and unintended consequences of tourism for those people whose lives and livelihoods are most at stake in China's rural ethnic tourism industry: the residents of village destinations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Ping'an (a Zhuang village in Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village in Guizhou), Jenny Chio analyzes the myriad challenges and possibilities confronted by villagers who are called upon to do the work of tourism. She addresses the shifting significance of migration and rural mobility, the visual politics of tourist photography, and the effects of touristic desires for "exotic difference" on village social relations. In this way, Chio illuminates the contemporary regimes of labor and leisure and the changing imagination of what it means to be rural, ethnic, and modern in China today. 410 0$aStudies on ethnic groups in China. 607 $aChina$xEthnic relations 607 $aChina$xRural conditions 676 $a951.004 700 $aChio$b Jenny$0913871 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 801 2$bNZ-WeVUL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910737294003321 996 $aA landscape of travel$92047543 997 $aUNINA