Red Tourism in China
eBook - ePub

Red Tourism in China

Commodification of Propaganda

  1. 194 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Red Tourism in China

Commodification of Propaganda

About this book

This book analyzes the phenomenally profitable "Red Tourism" industry in China, in which visitors make pilgrimages to sites of historical significance to the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Revolution.

The book examines Red Tourism in connection with the transforming power relations between the state and the private, communication in the socialist past, and the current round of capitalization, against the backdrop of the world's second largest economy. By re-evaluating the conventional notion of propaganda through the lens of neutral xuanchuan propaganda, the book presents a nuanced look at the social space of Red Tourism, revealing that propaganda should be conceived as a commodity, an industry, or even a media system similar to the news media.

Drawn from combining fieldwork and cultural analysis spanning a decade, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of communication studies, tourism, and Chinese politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 The problem of propaganda
  11. 3 Tourism as a propaganda system
  12. 4 The cultural roots of Red Tourism
  13. 5 The social space of Red Tourism: The Yan’an case
  14. 6 The commodification of propaganda
  15. Index