Han Chinese “drifters” in Lhasa: the ambivalent cultural politics of Tibetanness amidst China’s geographies of modernity

Qian, Junxi; Hong, Zhu

doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1139170

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“…The past several decades have witnessed the rapid development of modern tourism and the emergence of increasingly non-popular and personalized tourism forms (Benur & Bramwell, 2015). In China, alternative tourism has sprung up, such as lifestyle travelers (Cohen, 2011), Han Chinese "drifters" in Lhasa (Qian & Zhu, 2016), as well as road travelers traveling on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway (Wang, Xie, & Sun, 2019). These ways of traveling contrast to the instrumental rationality and utilitarianism orientations of mass tourism in terms of social interaction, travel purpose and aesthetics.…”

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Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Wang

Xie

2020

Journal of Tourism Research

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Within the context of Chinese culture and the theoretical framework of neo-tribes, this study explores the mobilities of road travelers on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in China and explains their social interactions and group relations by using mobile ethnography and multi-sited ethnography. It finds that social interactions during road travels are "easily meet, easily part." However, between travelers and within travel groups, kindness and affective interactions are ubiquitous. The Chinese cultural concept "yuanfen," which means serendipity in relationships, explains the logic of interaction. A road traveling neo-tribe is also formed. The findings of this study enhance understanding of alternative travelers' social interactions and tourism experiences.neo-tribes, road travel, Sichuan-Tibet highway, social interactions, yuanfen | INTRODUCTIONSocial interaction is a principal means by which people build social relationships, develop a sense of belonging, and enjoy positive psychological experiences in their daily lives (Bernstein, Zawadzki, Juth,

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Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Wang

Xie

2020

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…fsQCA 得出的前因条件组合通常基于频数和一致性两个标准进行精简，其中，频数是适用于某一前因条件组合产生特定结果条件的案例个数，而一致性是案例与解决方案中表示的集论关系相对应的程度 [57] 。参考 Ragin [57] 的研究，选择组态分析的游客互动中不断加深对地方 "独特性" "异质性" "我者/他者" 的感知，进而由历时态下塑造的 "地方认同" 转变为共时态中重构的 "地方性认同" [27] 。第三类为 "旅游生产驱动型" ，包含路径 1 和路径 2，中间解分别为 "~物质地理环境*~社会结构与 ① 为在文中方便表述表 5 的内容，用 "*" 表示 "和" 或 "并且" 的集合关系， "~" 表示 "非" 或 "否定" 的集合关系。特色地方属性(如 "长桌宴" "拦门酒" "嘎歌" 等)被重构为 "高山流水" "嘎歌古巷" 等具有地方性的旅游体验产品，苗族地方性得到强烈的显现与表征 [58] 。可见，旅游促使景区和企业运用策略、知识和逻辑不断对地方性进行建构 [59] ，当地大多数居民均参与到旅游服务中(如表演、管理或接待等)，人与地方的互动关系在旅游实践中 "层累" 起来 [60] ，并处在新的 Influence path of placeness reconstruction of mountainous ethnic tourism villages:…”

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Influence path of placeness reconstruction of mountainous ethnic tourism villages:Based on the qualitative comparative analysis of 32 villages in Leigongshan, Guizhou Province

LI,

YANG,

YIN

et al. 2023

Progress in Geography

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Placeness is the fundamental factor for ethnic villages to develop tourism. This study focused on the placeness reconstruction of mountainous ethnic tourism villages and the influencing factors of their strength and weakness level. We used the fsQCA analysis method to explore the antecedent condition combination of placeness strength and weakness of ethnic villages, which consists of physical geographical environment, social structure and function, residents' emotional value and behavior, enterprise operation and production, and tourists' participation, experience, and behavior. The results show that: 1) There is a complex relationship between the placeness of ethnic tourism villages and their antecedent conditions, and individual conditional variables cannot constitute sufficient conditions that affect the level of placeness reconstruction. It is affected by a combination of the factors. 2) There are eight combination paths of factors affecting the placeness level of ethnic tourism villages, with an overall consistency of 0.900 and an overall coverage rate of 0.890. The path with the optimal original coverage and consistency is combining residents, communities, businesses, and tourists. 3) There are four types and eight combinations of paths that affect the placeness reconstruction process and level of mountainous ethnic tourism villages, namely traditional place atmosphere driven, host-guest interaction driven, tourism production driven, and value co-creation driven. Together, these paths explain how conditional factors affect the placeness reconstruction of mountainous ethnic tourism villages under the mechanism of diachronic and synchronic perspective of placeness reconstruction. This study theoretically enriches the content of placeness research, which provides some references for the further exploration of the unique characteristics of mountainous ethnic tourism villages and the sustainability practice of tourism areas.

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“…In Shenzhen, economic reform is underscored by an ideology of modernity that advocates efficiency and progress, which coincides with key doctrines of the market economy. 54 This conception of modernity manifests in the slogan, 'time is life, efficiency is money', which has been popularized in Shenzhen. Rapid industrialization facilitated by the state entails that local villagers enjoy three lucrative sources of income: (1) dividends from enterprises run by the rural collective, (2) rent from leasing land and housing to factories and migrant workers and (3) their own businesses.…”

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Multi-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China

Gao

Qian

Yuan

2018

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This article provides a multi-scaled, grounded understanding of how secularization and re-sacralization occur simultaneously in a context of rapid modernization. Recent geographical scholarship in the geography of religion have exhibited deficient reflection over the geo-historical contingencies and complexities of secularization and secularity. This article seeks to re-conceptualize secularization as a multi-scaled, grounded and self-reflective process through an empirical study of the hybrid, contradictory processes of secularization and postsecular religious revival in a ‘gospel village’ in Shenzhen, China. In this rapidly urbanizing village, Christian belief inherited from Western missionary work has gradually lost its hold amidst modernization and urbanization. However, the inflow of rural migrant workers has re-invigorated the church. Christianity has created possibilities for postsecular ethics and resistances, enabling migrant workers to materially, symbolically and emotionally settle in a new socio-economic environment. Also, new situated religiosities arise as theological interpretations are used to negotiate and even legitimize social inequalities and alienation. This article therefore argues that the postsecular turn in human geography needs to consider how the postsecular articulates, and co-evolves with, secular conditions of being in the world. It highlights the hybrid and contested nature of the secularization process, which gives rise not only to disengaged belief and immanent consciousness but also to new aspirations for, and formations of, religiosities.

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Han Chinese “drifters” in Lhasa: the ambivalent cultural politics of Tibetanness amidst China’s geographies of modernity

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Influence path of placeness reconstruction of mountainous ethnic tourism villages:Based on the qualitative comparative analysis of 32 villages in Leigongshan, Guizhou Province

Multi-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China

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