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Displacing desire :

(Number (ISBN

0824862198

(Number (ISBN

1435665902

(Number (ISBN

9780824862190

(Number (ISBN

9781435665903

Erroneous ISBN

0824829808

Erroneous ISBN

0824830717

Erroneous ISBN

9780824829803

Erroneous ISBN

9780824830717

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b705495

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Displacing desire :

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[Book]

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travel and popular culture in China /

First Statement of Responsibility

Beth E. Notar.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

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University of Hawaii Press,

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©2006.

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1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) :

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illustrations, maps

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-186) and index.

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With the sign begins the search -- Lonely planeteers and a transnational authentic -- Five golden flowers: utopian nostalgia and local longing -- Heaven dragons: commodifying a fantastic past -- Earthly demons: displacing the present -- Off and on the road to reform.

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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? "Lonely planeteers"--American, European, and Israeli backpackers named for the guidebook they carry--trek halfway across the globe to "get off the beaten track," yet converge here to drink coffee, eat banana pancakes, and share music from home. Coastal Chinese who are prospering in the phenomenal economic growth of China's reform era travel thousands of miles to sing songs and dress up as their favorite characters from a revolutionary-era movie musical. Overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia as well as a new generation of mainland youth follow in the footsteps of heroes and villains from Hong Kong martial arts novels, seeking an experience of a Buddhist "wild, wild, West" at a martial arts theme park dubbed "Hollywood East," or "Daliwood."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 to consider the ways in which those who are represented must contend with their image in popular culture and the material after-effects of representations even decades after their original production. It contributes to an exploration of travel as performance of nostalgia, fantasy, and status. More specifically it contributes to an understanding of the growth of consumer culture in China, examining what China's modernization process and market economy mean for different social actors in their struggles over power and place.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt6686d2

Title

Displacing desire.

Parallel Title

Travel and popular culture in China

East Asia.

Ethnic relations.

Fremdenverkehr-- Volkskultur-- China.

Fremdenverkehr.

History & Archaeology.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

Popular Culture.

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.

Reizigers.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

SOCIAL SCIENCE.

Sozioökonomischer Wandel.

Toerisme.

Travel.

Volkskultur-- Fremdenverkehr-- China.

Volkskultur.

Volkskunst.

Dali Shi (China), Description and travel.

Dali Shi (China), Ethnic relations.

China, Dali Shi.

Dali (Yunnan)

Dali (Yunnan), Reisen.

Yunnan (provincie)

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SOC-- 002010

SOC-- 022000

SOC022000

TRV003020

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Notar, Beth E.,1963-

Date of Transaction

20201207205054.0

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[Book]

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