Inspired by representations in popular culture that engender fantasies of the exotic, these tourists, Western and Chinese, journey to Dali, Yunnan, in search of an imagined place where they can indulge their craving for authenticity, display their status in the present, and act out their nostalgia for the past. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, Beth Notar explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future.
- ISBN13 9780824830717
- Publish Date 30 October 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English