Journeys from the east: The popular geopolitics of film motivated Chinese tourism

Mostafanezhad, Mary, Coates, Jamie and Coates, Jennifer (2018) Journeys from the east: The popular geopolitics of film motivated Chinese tourism. International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 6 (3). pp. 219-236. ISSN 1759-0442

Preview

PDF (Accepted manuscript) - Accepted Version Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

Over the past five years the number of outbound travellers from the People's Republic of China (PRC) doubled, making Chinese tourists the largest group of international travellers in the world. Drawing on media reports of the impact of box office hits on Chinese outbound tourism, we explore how popular cinema informs the Chinese tourism boom's impact on the everyday geopolitics of Sino-host tourism encounters. Through a critical discourse analysis of representations of tourism practices in Chinese film, we highlight key tropes of economic and political power that present touristic practices as imaginable, aspirational, and attainable. We then examine how actual tourism encounters compare to their onscreen imaginaries. Drawing on theoretical and methodological insights from film studies, political anthropology and geography, this article contributes to emerging multi-disciplinary work on how filmic representations of Chinese tourism mediates the ongoing rearticulation of geopolitics within what has been dubbed the 'Chinese Century'.

Item Type:	Article
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2018 15:30
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 13:29
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68111
DOI:	10.1504/IJTA.2018.093304

Downloads

Actions (login required)

View Item