Mostafanezhad, M., Coates, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-9504 and Coates, J. (2018) Journeys from the east: the popular geopolitics of film motivated Chinese tourism. International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 6 (3). pp. 219-236. ISSN 1759-0442
Abstract
Over the past five years the number of outbound travellers from the People's Republic of China (PRC) doubled, making Chinese tourists the largest group of international travellers in the world. Drawing on media reports of the impact of box office hits on Chinese outbound tourism, we explore how popular cinema informs the Chinese tourism boom's impact on the everyday geopolitics of Sino-host tourism encounters. Through a critical discourse analysis of representations of tourism practices in Chinese film, we highlight key tropes of economic and political power that present touristic practices as imaginable, aspirational, and attainable. We then examine how actual tourism encounters compare to their onscreen imaginaries. Drawing on theoretical and methodological insights from film studies, political anthropology and geography, this article contributes to emerging multi-disciplinary work on how filmic representations of Chinese tourism mediates the ongoing rearticulation of geopolitics within what has been dubbed the 'Chinese Century'.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Journal of Tourism Anthropology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2019 14:59 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Inderscience |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1504/IJTA.2018.093304 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145205 |