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Displacing desire : travel and popular culture in China /

Why do millions of people from around the world flock to Dali, a small borderland town in the Himalayan foothills of southwest China? "Lonely planeteers"--American, European, and Israeli backpackers named for the guidebook they carry--trek halfway across the globe to "get off the beat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Notar, Beth E., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • With the sign begins the search
  • Lonely planeteers and a transnational authentic
  • Five golden flowers: utopian nostalgia and local longing
  • Heaven dragons: commodifying a fantastic past
  • Earthly demons: displacing the present
  • Off and on the road to reform.