Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land

Xianghong Feng (???) is associate professor of anthropology at Eastern Michigan University.

• Part I: Tourism's "Great Leap Forward"Chapter 1The Place: The Mountain, The River, The PeopleChapter 2"Scaling Up": The McDonaldizing Village ToursPart II: Living with TourismChapter 3Spatial Transformations: Constructing Tourism SitesChapter 4From Tourism Marketplace to Village Homes: Gendered Work among the Local MiaoChapter 5 Prosperity for Whom?: Tourism and the Poverty of ResourcesPart III: One VillageChapter 6Before and After the Merger: Everyday Resistance in Village LifeChapter 7Competition and (In)equality: The Rise and Fall of Village Family RestaurantsConclusion"Small" as a Solution

As a case study of tourism and power in rural ethnic China, this book is a helpful contribution to the growing literature in the anthropology of tourism and contemporary China studies through its ethnographic attention to social relations, gender, and rural economies. . . . the book will be of use to scholars already working on these issues, and individual chapters could be effectively integrated into relevant university courses and seminars on minority China, tourism anthropology and rural development.