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Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China / Yujie Zhu



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Autore: Zhu Yujie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China / Yujie Zhu Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 pages)
Disciplina: 338.4/79151
Soggetto topico: Soziokultureller Wandel
Tourismus
Idealisierung
Brauchtum
Kulturerbe
Nationale Minderheit
Tradition (Philosophy)
Heritage tourism
Heritage tourism - China
Soggetto geografico: China
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: China
Cultural heritage
ethnic tourism
performance
romantic consumption
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The 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?
Titolo autorizzato: Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-485-3682-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996433049703316
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Serie: Asian heritages (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; ; 4.