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Poverty and Prosperity

Tourism in Rural China
2023 ᛫


Poverty and Prosperity focuses on tourism and rural community development in the light of Confucianism and Taoism. Drawing from ethnographic field research in Southern China, the authors present an evolutionary as well as a horizontal view of tourism and rural community development through an illustrative case.

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Summary


Poverty and Prosperity: Tourism in Rural China focuses on tourism and rural community development in the light of Confucianism and Taoism. Drawing from ethnographic field research in Southern China, the authors present an evolutionary as well as a horizontal view of tourism and rural community development through an illustrative case. Narratives from villagers involved in (or affected by) tourism development in the case study village are highly embedded in, and culturally informative of, rural community development with Chinese characteristics. A valuable source of reference and an addition to the pro-poor tourism knowledge, this book offers an epistemologically unique and much needed perspective on researching and practicing tourism for poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1. Poverty

  • Chapter 2. Tourism and Development
  • Chapter 3. Poverty Alleviation through Tourism in China
  • Chapter 4. Methodological Approaches
  • Chapter 5. The Budding of Tourism
  • Chapter 6. Spontaneous Growth
  • Chapter 7. The Golden Age
  • Chapter 8. A Stagnation of Development
  • Chapter 9. Tourism and Rural Community
  • Chapter 10. Imbalanced Development
  • Chapter 11. A Comparative Lens
  • Chapter 12. The Shuiji Model

About the authors



Dr. Xinru Liu is Assistant Professor in the School of Economics and Management at Wuyi University, Guangdong, China. Her research interests include tourism and rural community development.

Dr. Honggen Xiao is Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China. He researches into knowledge development, tourism and culture, leisure and society, and China Tourism.

Both authors have distinct memories of poverty in less privileged areas and share a passion about rural community development through tourism in places where they are from and deeply care about.