Yiping Li is a Professor at the College of Management, Guangzhou University, China. His research interests include tourism and leisure studies, cultural geography and the regional geography of China.

In this seminal treatise Dr Li enlists his in-depth studies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada, and applies ethnographical methods to interpret the results from a humanistic perspective. He successfully steers the scholarly inquiry from the traditional deterministic towards the existential-phenomenological approach. The book skilfully lifts the value of qualitative case studies to the high-order theoretical plane and makes an original contribution to tourism knowledge.

• Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Making or Remaking People and Places through TourismChapter 1. The Appeal of Distant Places: China’s Inbound Tourism in the 1990sChapter 2. Orientalism Revisited: Ethnic Tourism of China versus CanadaChapter 3. Tourism Impacts in China after Two Decades of DevelopmentChapter 4. Community Tourism and China’s Dilemma of ModernisationChapter 5. Red Tourism and China’s Communist IdentityChapter 6. The Impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic GamesChapter 7. Leisure Shopping and the Hong Kong–China RelationshipChapter 8. Island Festivals and Sense of Place: The Hong Kong ExperienceChapter 9. Linguistic Landscape, Tourism and an Island Place MakingChapter 10. Tourism and Social-Cultural Change in ChinaConclusion: Applying Ethnography to China Tourism ResearchReferencesIndex

Yiping Li is a Professor at the College of Management, Guangzhou University, China. His research interests include tourism and leisure studies, cultural geography and the regional geography of China.

In this seminal treatise Dr Li enlists his in-depth studies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada, and applies ethnographical methods to interpret the results from a humanistic perspective. He successfully steers the scholarly inquiry from the traditional deterministic towards the existential-phenomenological approach. The book skilfully lifts the value of qualitative case studies to the high-order theoretical plane and makes an original contribution to tourism knowledge.

• Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Making or Remaking People and Places through TourismChapter 1. The Appeal of Distant Places: China’s Inbound Tourism in the 1990sChapter 2. Orientalism Revisited: Ethnic Tourism of China versus CanadaChapter 3. Tourism Impacts in China after Two Decades of DevelopmentChapter 4. Community Tourism and China’s Dilemma of ModernisationChapter 5. Red Tourism and China’s Communist IdentityChapter 6. The Impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic GamesChapter 7. Leisure Shopping and the Hong Kong–China RelationshipChapter 8. Island Festivals and Sense of Place: The Hong Kong ExperienceChapter 9. Linguistic Landscape, Tourism and an Island Place MakingChapter 10. Tourism and Social-Cultural Change in ChinaConclusion: Applying Ethnography to China Tourism ResearchReferencesIndex

Yiping Li is a Professor at the College of Management, Guangzhou University, China. His research interests include tourism and leisure studies, cultural geography and the regional geography of China.

In this seminal treatise Dr Li enlists his in-depth studies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada, and applies ethnographical methods to interpret the results from a humanistic perspective. He successfully steers the scholarly inquiry from the traditional deterministic towards the existential-phenomenological approach. The book skilfully lifts the value of qualitative case studies to the high-order theoretical plane and makes an original contribution to tourism knowledge.

• Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Making or Remaking People and Places through TourismChapter 1. The Appeal of Distant Places: China’s Inbound Tourism in the 1990sChapter 2. Orientalism Revisited: Ethnic Tourism of China versus CanadaChapter 3. Tourism Impacts in China after Two Decades of DevelopmentChapter 4. Community Tourism and China’s Dilemma of ModernisationChapter 5. Red Tourism and China’s Communist IdentityChapter 6. The Impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic GamesChapter 7. Leisure Shopping and the Hong Kong–China RelationshipChapter 8. Island Festivals and Sense of Place: The Hong Kong ExperienceChapter 9. Linguistic Landscape, Tourism and an Island Place MakingChapter 10. Tourism and Social-Cultural Change in ChinaConclusion: Applying Ethnography to China Tourism ResearchReferencesIndex