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A Landscape of Travel
Author | : Jenny T. Chio |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2014-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780295805061 |
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While 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.
Landscape in American Guides and View Books
Author | : Herbert Gottfried |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739176092 |
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This is the first published study of American printed souvenirs and their relationship to the development of touring and immigration. Grounded in scenic thinking, captured in prints and photographic images, the books communicate social and cultural intentions in the landscape and provide commentary on American life.
Fashioning the Canadian Landscape
Author | : John Irvine Little |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2018-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781487510435 |
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Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination. In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to the American identification with the wilderness sublime, however, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers. This amply illustrated volume includes chapters ranging from Labrador to British Columbia, some of which focus on such notable British authors as Rupert Brooke and Rudyard Kipling, and others on talented American writers such as Charles Dudley Warner. Based not only on the views of the landscape but on the racist descriptions of the Indigenous peoples and the romanticization of the Canadian ‘folk’, Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature.
Tourism Land and Landscape in Ireland
Author | : K.J. James |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781134681129 |
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This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist economies, illicit dimensions of tourism, national landscapes, ‘legend’ and invented tradition in modern tourism.
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
Author | : David John Arnold |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780295800943 |
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Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.
Tourism Landscape and the Irish Character
Author | : William Williams |
Publsiher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299225230 |
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Picturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland perceived by British visitors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not fit their ideas of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. The rituals of Irish Catholicism, the lamentations of funeral wakes, the Irish language they could not comprehend, even the landscapes were all strange to tourists from England, Wales, and Scotland. Overlooking the acute despair in England’s own industrial cities, these travelers opined in their writings that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated moral failures of the Irish character.
Figures in a Landscape
Author | : Paul Theroux |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2018-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780241977514 |
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The Sunday Times bestseller Paul Theroux collects a rich feast of his writing and essays - from travel to personal memoir - published all together here for the first time Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux's rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively these pieces offer a fascinating portrait of the author himself, his extraordinary life, restless and ever-curious mind.
Fashioning the Canadian Landscape
Author | : J.I. Little |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9781487500214 |
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In his book Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to America, Canada's image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.