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The book "Tourism And Modernity In China" examines the impact of modernization on China's tourist landscapes. It focuses on the development of ethnic tourist villages and theme parks, and argues that these sites reflect the contradictions and potential of Chinese modernity. The author, Tim Oakes, uses the province of Guizhou as a case study to explore the Chinese tourist industry and its relationship to the state's modernization policies. The book also delves into how local communities have responded to these changes.
This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes uses the province of Guizhou to examine the Chinese tourist industry as an example of the state's modernization policies and how local people have engaged with these changes.
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