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1. Real Tourism

   Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture

   Edited by Claudio Minca, Tim Oakes

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
2. Translocal China

   Linkages, Identities and the Re-imagining of Space

   Edited by Tim Oakes, Louisa Schein

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China’s reform era development within the concept of translocality. A key element of spatial change in today’s China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and...

   Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge
3. Tourism and Modernity in China

   By Tim Oakes

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes...

   Published August 26th 1998 by Routledge