Displacing Desire Travel and Popular Culture in China

Name: Displacing Desire Travel and Popular Culture in China
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ISBN: 9780824830717

ISBN-10: 0824830717

ISBN-13: 9780824830717

Edition: 2006

Authors: Beth E. Notar

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Why do millions of people from around the world flock to Dali, a small borderland town in the Himalayan foothills of southwest China? Inspired by representations in popular culture that engender fantasies of the exotic, these tourists, Western and Chinese, journey to Dali, Yunnan, in search of an imagined place where they can indulge their craving for authenticity, display their status in the present, and act out their nostalgia for the past. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, Beth Notar explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future. Displacing Desire takes representation into the realm of practice…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.95" wide x 8.56" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
A Note, on Transcription	p. xii
Measure Conversions	p. xiv
With the Sign Begins the Search	p. 1
Lonely Planeteers and a Transnational Authentic	p. 20
Five Golden Flowers: Utopian Nostalgia and Local Longing	p. 47
Heavenly Dragons: Commodifying a Fantastic Past	p. 80
Earthly Demons: Displacing the Present	p. 111
Off and On the Road to Reform	p. 137
Notes	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 151
Index	p. 187
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