ANTH 3120 Study Guide - Social Reproduction, Dialectic
27 Mar 2014
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With the acceleration of economic reform and development, chinese people"s freedom to move has simultaneously expanded. There are mainly two factors leading to this shift. First, china"s gdp and individual incomes have increased considerably during the last two decades. Rising disposable incomes have triggered higher travel and leisure expenditure. Many countries started allowing chinese visitors to come to their country like the. Philippines, australia, and starting in 2004, even europe (france, italy, germany). John urry"s (2002) tourist gaze" is one of the most powerful analytical concepts in tourism literature. Tourists are people who undergo a rite of passage of going away" (from their mundane everyday life) to somewhere else to collect such (mainly visual) signs which often fulfil the tourists" anticipation of places, objects, people and travel itself. Urry is also concerned with the historical transformation of social reproduction of the tourist gaze, from the high-brow travel culture of the elite class of europe to the present working-class mass tourism.
