In January 2015, Max Baucus, then US Ambassador to China, made a rare visit to a
boutique hotel called Yang Pinxiang Mansion, located in Xizhou Town, Dali Bai …

This paper seeks to offer a nuanced understanding of how the rural responds to and speaks
back to the urban in the context of increasingly blurred rural‐urban landscapes. The …

China is confronting intractable challenges during the process of urbanisation. The urban-
rural binary structure that has developed since 1958 has led to a gap in development …

Debates over the ontology of contemporary urbanization have questioned the notion of a
meaningful 'outside'to the urban and have called for greater attention to the socially …

Researchers are paying increasing attention to issues of rural transformation. Exogenous
and endogenous have been conventionally recognized as the mainstream paradigms of …

This paper examines the rural ethnic heritage-inspired transformation of the built
environment of a relatively small county town in China. The paper explores the ways village …

This thesis investigates how rapid urbanisation changed the daily life of residents on the
periphery of Chongqing, Southwest China. It examines how the vision of urban modernity …

Recalling Tony Bennett's plea for a more 'prosaic'cultural studies, this paper proposes a
redefinition of the concept 'third space'as a prosaic space of policy and governmentality …

This study captures evidence of the different meanings of tradition in two sites in Yunnan
province, in Southwest China. It compares the development of the capital city, Kunming …

This essay explores the development of tourism as a local cultural production in a remote
region of south-west China. It offers a case study in the contests over how landscapes are …