Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Figures and Tables vii
5. Preface ix
6. Introduction: Making or Remaking People and Places through Tourism 1
7. 1 The Appeal of Distant Places: China’s Inbound Tourism in the 1990s 6
8. 2 Orientalism Revisited: Ethnic Tourism of China versus Canada 24
9. 3 Tourism Impacts in China after Two Decades of Development 42
10. 4 Community Tourism and China’s Dilemma of Modernisation 55
11. 5 Red Tourism and China’s Communist Identity 75
12. 6 The Impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 92
13. 7 Leisure Shopping and the Hong Kong–China Relationship 107
14. 8 Island Festivals and Sense of Place: The Hong Kong Experience 121
15. 9 Linguistic Landscape, Tourism and an Island Place Making 133
16. 10 Tourism and Social-Cultural Change in China 148
17. Conclusion: Applying Ethnography to China Tourism Research 166
18. References 182
19. Index 209