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Seeing like a minority: political tourism and the struggle for recognition in China
Sichtbarmachung einer Minderheit: politischer Tourismus und der Kampf um Anerkennung in China
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Abstract This paper outlines the operation of what may be called "political tourism" in China, and analyses the role of the sensorial technology of "seeing" in the kind of narrative this tourism engenders. Beginning in 1950, the newly established People's Republic of China launched an annual tradition of inv... view more
This paper outlines the operation of what may be called "political tourism" in China, and analyses the role of the sensorial technology of "seeing" in the kind of narrative this tourism engenders. Beginning in 1950, the newly established People's Republic of China launched an annual tradition of inviting non-communist elites to attend the May Day and the National Day (1 October) parades on Tiananmen Square in Beijing and in some metropolitan cities. Unlike contemporary ethnic tourism, wherein minorities and their cultures become the objects of the tourist gaze, Chinese political tourism aims at bringing minority leaders out of their putative "isolation", treating them with hospitality, and ultimately making them "see with their own eyes" China's "true face".... view less
Keywords
cultural revolution; social recognition; minority policy; ethnic group; minority rights; policy of recognition; minority; China; Far East; communist party; delegation of tasks
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
political tourism; struggle for recognition
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 133-158
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41 (2012) 4
Issue topic
The politics of ethnicity in China
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works