Tourism and prosperity in Miao land : power and inequality in rural ethnic China
Xianghong Feng (Author)
Focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has disrupted the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents
Print Book, English, 2017
Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2017
xxvi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781498509954, 9781498557757, 1498509959, 1498557759
979567644
Introduction : into the field
The place : the mountain, the river, and the people
"Scaling-up" : McDonaldizing village tours
Spatial transformations : constructing tourism sites
From tourism marketplace to village homes : gendered work among the local Miao
Prosperity for whom? : tourism and the poverty of resources
Before and after the merger : everyday resistance in village life
Competition and (in)equality : the rise and fall of village family restaurants
Conclusion "small" as a solution