TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhang,Rouran
TI  - Chinese heritage and their audiences: the power of the past 
T2  - Routledge research on museums and heritage in Asia
SN  - 9780429460333
AV  - DS706.3 
U1  - 951 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - World Heritage areas
KW  - China
KW  - Historic sites
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
N2  - "Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences provides a Chinese perspective on tourists' relationship to heritage. Contributing to ongoing debates within heritage and tourism studies, the book offers insights into how and why visitors engage with such sites. Drawing on interviews with domestic tourists, local residents and heritage officials at the World Heritage sites of West Lake, Xidi and Hongcun, Zhang argues that tourists have agency: when they visit heritage sites, they are doing cultural, social and emotional work, whilst also negotiating cultural meanings. Providing an examination of the complex interactions between locals and tourists, the author then considers how tourists navigate and interpret heritage sites. Finally, Zhang examines whether government or locally controlled tourism enterprise is more effective in facilitating meaningful cultural interaction between tourists and locals. Overall, the book demonstrates the interrelation between tourism and heritage, and the tensions that are created when the ways in which sites are used differs to the expectations of UNESCO and national or regional site managers. Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences pays particular attention to ongoing debates about heritage performances, the importance of emotions and the agency of tourists and will thus appeal to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, tourism, landscape architecture and anthropology"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429460333
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -