Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China

Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in 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.
Country USA
Brand University of Hawaii Press
Manufacturer University of Hawaii Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2006-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780824830717

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