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Chinese Heritage Sites and Their Audiences: The Power of the Past

Chinese Heritage Sites and Their Audiences: The Power of the Past

Zhang, Rouran

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia

Business GeneralGeneral ReferenceChinese History

ISBN10: 1032172924
ISBN13: 9781032172927
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2021
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 the government or locally controlled tourism enterprises are 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 differ from the expectations of UNESCO and national or regional site managers.

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