1st Edition

China's Route Heritage Mobility Narratives, Modernity and the Ancient Tea Horse Road

By Gary Sigley Copyright 2021
286 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

  China’s Route Heritage examines the creation, development and proliferation of the route heritage discourse of the Ancient Tea Horse Road ( Chamagudao ), in the People’s Republic of China. Examining the formation of the tea-horse road as a concept, its development as a platform for cultural branding, and its most recent interactions with the policy of the Belt and Road Initiative... Read more

1. Chinese Culture and the ‘Great Revival of the Chinese Nation';  2. The Physical and Cultural Geography of Southwest China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road;   3. Modernity, Territoriality and the Terraformation of Yunnan;  4. The Creation and Proliferation of a Route Heritage Mobility Narrative of Southwest China;  5. Touristic Modernity and the Simulacrum;   6. Tea-Horse Road Tourism, Theme Parks and Themed Residential and Commercial Spaces

 

 

 

 

Biography

Gary Sigley is Professor of Human Geography in the Faculty of Geographical Science at Beijing Normal University.