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Scenic Spots

Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority

By Pal Nyiri

Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People’s Republic of China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in traditional Chinese culture. Scenic Spots is...

Reporting for China

How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World

By Pál Nyíri

While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of this growth, hoping to strengthen its influence...

Seeing Culture Everywhere

From Genocide to Consumer Habits

By Joana Breidenbach and Pal Nyiri

Today's world is shaped by an obsession with cultural difference that penetrates everyday life and matters of state in unprecedented ways. Culture and cultural difference are commonly used to explain everything that's in the news...

Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia

How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region

By Pál Nyíri, Danielle Tan, Wang Gungwu

This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China’s rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents,...

Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China

By Pal Nyiri

Chinese citizens are becoming increasingly mobile, both inside China and abroad, as migrant workers, tourists, and students. China is caught between perceived benefits and dangers posed by mobility, complicated by the government’s own conflicting impulses...