Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China

Yujie Zhu

book: Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2018

Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China

Yujie Zhu

Volume 4 in the series Asian Heritages

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048536825

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Zhu Yujie :

Yujie Zhu is a Lecturer at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University. He is the co-editor of Politics of Scale and Sustainable Tourism Management at World Heritage Sites.

Reviews

"Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China is a beautifully structured monograph possessing a reasonable balance between sharp political analysis and ethnography which demonstrates sensuous feeling and embodied practice."
- Geng Li, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (2020)

"Tourists come to Lijiang looking for love and romance, only to become dissatisfied and disillusioned with the place, leaving it to locals to come up with new forms of attraction and alterity. This is a story with which tourism scholars are also familiar, but it is a story that few have told as comprehensively as Yujie Zhu."
- Tim Oakes, The China Journal, No. 83, January 2020

"Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China presents a very intriguing and in-depth ethnographic investigation of the politics of intangible heritage and heritage tourism in China. As such, its contribution to the heritage and museum studies literature, including tourism studies, is significant and certainly stretches beyond the context of China and Asia."
- Song Hou, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26:3 2019

"This most sophisticated and provocative work weaves together intangible heritage, performance and authenticity. At the hinge of ethnic tradition and (post)modern individual consumerism, this book focusses on a leading edge of change in Chinese civilization."
- Nelson Graburn, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

"Yujie Zhu has given us an incisively grounded account of how a centralized nation-state shapes local and minority heritage and channels it into the production of commodified sentiment."
- Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	6
Prologue: Somewhere in Time Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	13
2. Stage Open Access Download PDF	39
3. Scripts Open Access Download PDF	61
4. Local Actors Open Access Download PDF	85
5. Guests Open Access Download PDF	111
6. After the Show Open Access Download PDF	125
7. Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	139
Epilogue: The Show Must Go On Open Access Download PDF	145
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	149
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	151
Index Open Access Download PDF	161

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 168
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
- Other: 20 halftones
Keywords: Cultural heritage; ethnic tourism; performance; romantic consumption; China

eBook

Published: August 15, 2018
ISBN: 9789048536825