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A landscape of travel : the work of tourism in rural ethnic China / Jenny Chio
Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2014.
327 pages. ;
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 338.47915
"While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person's leisure is another person's labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates the contested meanings and unintended consequences of tourism for those people whose lives and livelihoods are most at stake in China's rural ethnic tourism industry: the residents of village destinations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Pingan (a Zhuang village in Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village in Guizhou), Jenny Chio analyzes the myriad challenges and possibilities confronted by villagers who are called upon to do the work of tourism. She addresses the shifting significance of migration and rural mobility, the visual politics of tourist photography, and the effects of touristic desires for "exotic difference" on village social relations. In this way, Chio illuminates the contemporary regimes of labor and leisure and the changing imagination of what it means to be rural, ethnic, and modern in China today. Jenny Chio is assistant professor of anthropology and associated faculty in film and media studies at Emory University. A Landscape of Travel is about China becoming a nation that travels, and one way of traveling is to be a tourist. Tourism is of course only one mode through which China's mobility expresses itself, and we must remember that most villages have no tourists at all. But if we want to understand why tourists see and experience what they do. and how this reflects China as a nation that travels, [this book] is both delightful and essential."--The foreword by Stevan Harrell"This book explores how 'travel' can be a useful framework with which to better understand how rural China is changing. While it has not been uncommon to view rural China as an increasingly 'mobilized' landscape of excess labor seeking better livelihoods in the cities, Chio's study approaches mobility in both more abstract and broad-ranging terms. Her work offers an important contribution. Anyone interested in ethnography, ethnicity in China, and anthropologies of tourism will find A Landscape of Travel interesting."--Tim Oakes, University of Colorado at Boulder"-
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Blue skies over Beijing : economic growth and the environment in China / Matthew E. Kahn, Siqi Zheng
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016
273 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 25 m.
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 363.73
Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most polluted cities in the world are in China. Yet, millions of people continue moving to its cities seeking opportunities. Blue Skies over Beijing investigates the ways that China's urban development impacts local and global environmental challenges. Focusing on day-to-day choices made by the nation's citizens, families, and government, Matthew Kahn and Siqi Zheng examine how Chinese urbanites are increasingly demanding cleaner living conditions and consider where China might be headed in terms of sustainable urban growth. Kahn and Zheng delve into life in China's cities from the personal perspectives of the rich, middle class, and poor, and how they cope with the stresses of pollution. Urban parents in China have a strong desire to protect their children from environmental risk, and calls for a better quality of life from the rising middle class places pressure on government officials to support greener policies. Using the historical evolution of American cities as a comparison, the authors predict that as China's economy moves away from heavy manufacturing toward cleaner sectors, many of China's cities should experience environmental progress in upcoming decades. Looking at pressing economic and environmental issues in urban China, Blue Skies over Beijing shows that a cleaner China will mean more social stability for the nation and the world
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China's outbound tourism / Wolfgang Georg Arlt
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
318 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 338.4791
"The People's Republic of China has changed from a country that discouraged tourism as a useless bourgeois activity into one of the major source markets for international tourism. In excess of 30 million Chinese travelled across the border in 2005, they are only the tip of the iceberg of the Chinese who have acquired the taste, money and freedom for international travel." "China's Outbound Tourism is the first book written about this major development using a multitude of sources from China and around the world. The topic is approached from many angles, using methods from the fields of economics, political sciences, sociology, semiotics and cross-cultural studies. The book explains the economic and social background of the surge in tourism in China and the changes in tourism policy in China since 1949, which moved from prevention through controlled development to possibly encouragement of outbound travels of Chinese citizens." "This book offers fresh insight into the fact that already one-quarter of all international tourists are coming from non-western countries and mainly from Asia. China's Outbound Tourism indicates some of the future lines of development in this area before concluding with a look into the future of tourism."
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Concise guide to medicinal application in pediatrics / Yi Qian, Mingshan Yang
New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing, 2019
xxvii, 342 pages. ; 24 cm.
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 618.92
This is a full-text English translation of the TCM classic on pediatrics written by QIAN Yi (1032–1113 CE). It covers syndrome identification and treatment of diseases in infants and young children. The book consists of three parts: Part I is about diagnosis of children's diseases and their recommended treatments. There are 81 articles covering a wide range of clinical patterns. Part II reports 23 case studies and provides an invaluable record of the clinical practices at that time. Part III contains over one hundred medicinal formulas for use in various treatment plans.
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