Romantic Consumption and Heritage Performance in China
The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding ceremon...
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| author | Zhu, Yujie |
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| description | The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding ceremonies are performed for the ethnic tourism industry in Lijiang, a World Heritage town in southwest China. 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. The wedding performances in Lijiang not only serve as a heritage 'product' but show how the heritage and tourism industry helps to shape people's values, dreams and expectations. This book also explores the rise of 'romantic consumerism' in contemporary China. Chinese dissatisfaction with the urban mundane leads to romanticized interests in practices and people deemed to be natural, ethnic, spiritual and aesthetic, and a search for tradition and authenticity. But what, exactly, are tradition and authenticity, and what happens to them when they are turned into performance? |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-356902025-07-31T09:04:27Z Romantic Consumption and Heritage Performance in China Zhu, Yujie Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding ceremonies are performed for the ethnic tourism industry in Lijiang, a World Heritage town in southwest China. 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. The wedding performances in Lijiang not only serve as a heritage 'product' but show how the heritage and tourism industry helps to shape people's values, dreams and expectations. This book also explores the rise of 'romantic consumerism' in contemporary China. Chinese dissatisfaction with the urban mundane leads to romanticized interests in practices and people deemed to be natural, ethnic, spiritual and aesthetic, and a search for tradition and authenticity. But what, exactly, are tradition and authenticity, and what happens to them when they are turned into performance? 2021-02-10T14:28:45Z 2021-02-10T14:28:45Z 2020-12-15T14:12:29Z 2018 book OCN: 1055046753 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43962 9789048536825 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35690 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43962/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43962/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43962/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43962/1/external_content.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985674 https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985674 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 Knowledge Unlatched 9789048536825 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Amsterdam University Press open access |
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