Description
Book SynopsisPoverty and Prosperity: Tourism in Rural China focuses on tourism and rural community development in the light of Confucianism and Taoism. Drawing from ethnographic field research in Southern China, the authors present an evolutionary as well as a horizontal view of tourism and rural community development through an illustrative case. Narratives from villagers involved in (or affected by) tourism development in the case study village are highly embedded in, and culturally informative of, rural community development with Chinese characteristics. A valuable source of reference and an addition to the pro-poor tourism knowledge, this book offers an epistemologically unique and much needed perspective on researching and practicing tourism for poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Poverty
Chapter 2. Tourism and Development
Chapter 3. Poverty Alleviation through Tourism in China
Chapter 4. Methodological Approaches
Chapter 5. The Budding of Tourism
Chapter 6. Spontaneous Growth
Chapter 7. The Golden Age
Chapter 8. A Stagnation of Development
Chapter 9. Tourism and Rural Community
Chapter 10. Imbalanced Development
Chapter 11. A Comparative Lens
Chapter 12. The Shuiji Model
