Between Encouragement and Control: Tourism, Modernity and Discipline in China
Pál Nyiri, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
Since the early 1980s, people in China have been able to move around much more than before, and the state has encouraged various forms of mobility as practices that contribute to the modernization of the population. At the same time, spontaneous mobility remains threatening to state control, not only in the well-known form of rural migrants to cities, but also because it challenges the state's grip on representations of the nation. This paper deals with the way the duality of encouragement and control plays out in the burgeoning Chinese tourism industry.
