Seeing like a minority: political tourism and the struggle for recognition in China

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This paper outlines the operation of what may be called "political tourism" in China, and analyses the role of the sensorial technology of "seeing" in the kind of narrative this tourism engenders. Beginning in 1950, the newly established People's Republic of China launched an annual tradition of inviting non-communist elites to attend the May Day and the National Day (1 October) parades on Tiananmen Square in Beijing and in some metropolitan cities. Unlike contemporary ethnic tourism, wherein minorities and their cultures become the objects of the tourist gaze, Chinese political tourism aims at bringing minority leaders out of their putative "isolation", treating them with hospitality, and ultimately making them "see with their own eyes" China's "true face".

Object Details

• Alternative title: Sichtbarmachung einer Minderheit: politischer Tourismus und der Kampf um Anerkennung in China
• ISSN: 1868-4874
• Extent: Seite(n): 133-158
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41(4)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Politikwissenschaft ; Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie ; spezielle Ressortpolitik ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Ostasien ; ethnische Gruppe ; soziale Anerkennung ; Kulturrevolution ; Anerkennungspolitik ; Minderheit ; China ; Minderheitenrecht ; Delegation ; kommunistische Partei

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bulag, Uradyn E.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2012

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-5770
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST