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Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, And Cultural Authority (A China Program Book)
Pal Nyiri Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0295985887 |
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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 an engaging exploration of why Chinese tourists pursue certain kinds of experiences, what they make of them, and how their experiences and interpretations are shaped by the state.Working from within a Chinese cultural framework, Pál Nyíri argues that China's brand of tourism is distinct from the traditions of both Western bourgeois tourism, which values authenticity, and Soviet tourism, with its emphasis on rugged and selfless experience. In China, tourism development is guided by the state, and "scenic spots" (jingdian) and theme parks are used to demonstrate China's heroic past and as tools of patriotic education and modernization - or as forms of "indoctritainment." The tourist site is perceived as a product, and, as such, it is bounded, approved, rated, and consumed.
In a style both straightforward and provocative, Nyíri argues that the uniformity and undisguised commercialism of Chinese tourist sites are a direct result of the state's ultimate authority to determine the meaning of landscape and to control culture. Scenic Spots serves as a lens through which to explore mechanisms of cultural control and resistance in a highly commercialized sphere of everyday life in contemporary China.
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The Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shihuang (Chinese/English edition: FLP China Travel and Tourism)
Cao Lei Manufacturer: Foreign Language Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 7119026127 |
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The discovery of the terracotta warriors of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, east of Xi'an capital of Shaanxi Province, is considered the most significant event in Chinese archaeology in the 20th Century. The terracotta army has been hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World." This album presents some 80 photographs and illustrations of the extraordinary underground army marshaled over 2000 years ago to guard the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, China's first unifier. Color Illustrations.
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Shanghai (Chinese/English edition: FLP China Travel and Tourism)
Yang Shijin , and Wu Wen Manufacturer: Foreign Language Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 7119022210 |
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Shanghai is a metropolis situated where the mighty Yangtze River flows into the sea. Since the Chinese government decided on the construction and opening of the New Pudong District, the prospects for the development of Shanghai in the next few years have attracted worldwide attention. This album, containing more than 80 photographs, shows the prosperity of Shanghai Municipality, its cultural relics and its scenic spots. Color Illustrations.
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Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, And Japan
Christine M. E. Guth Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0295984562 |
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Charles Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, arrived in Yokohama in 1871, intending a brief visit, and stayed for two years. He returned to Boston laden with photographs, curios, and art objects, as well as the elaborate tattoos he had "collected" on his body. His journals, correspondence, and art collection dramatically demonstrate America's early impressions of Japanese culture, and his personal odyssey illustrates the impact on both countries of globetrotting tourism.Interweaving Longfellow's experiences with broader issues of tourism and cultural authenticity, Christine Guth discusses the ideology of tourism and the place of Japan within nineteenth-century round-the-world travel. This study goes beyond simplistic models of reciprocal influence and authenticity to a more synergistic account of cross-cultural dynamics.
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An American in Edo.......2007-06-24
A cultural expose of Japan in the 19th century.......2005-02-07
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Beijing (Chinese/English edition: FLP China Travel and Tourism)
Languages Press Foreign Manufacturer: Foreign Languages Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 7119019406 |
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Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and a city with a history of over 3,000 years. This handbook with over 60 carefully-selected photographs introduces the main cultural relics, scenic spots and folk customs of Beijing. A brief account of the history of Beijing is also included to provide readers with some background information. Color Illustrations.
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Nanjing (Chinese/English edition: FLP China Travel and Tourism)
Liu Xiaofan Manufacturer: Foreign Language Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 7119019708 |
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Nanjing, a famous historic city in China, was one of the six major capitals in ancient China, where ten Chinese dynasties set up their central governments at one time or another. Bejeweled with spots of scenic or historical interest, Nanjing has always been a destination for tourists from home and abroad. Color Illustrations.
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Hangzhou (Chinese/English edition: FLP China Travel and Tourism)
Chen Mingzhao Manufacturer: Foreign Language Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 7119028251 |
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Hangzhou, known for its abundant tourism resources, integrates the advantages of a natural landscape and traditional culture. Starting from Hangzhou, tourists may take various convenient means of transportation to view cultural relics via tour routes in the east, south, west and north. This photo album introduces all the scenic spots in Hangzhou as well as those on each tour route with beautiful pictures and vivid descriptions, and serves as a handy traveling companion. Color Illustrations.
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Tourism And Hotel Development In China: From Political To Economic Success
Hanqin Qiu, Ed. Zhang Manufacturer: Haworth Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 078901257X |
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Examine the reasons for the rapid growth of China's tourism industryTourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success is a comprehensive guide to the development of the tourism industry in Mainland China following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Conceived as a textbook but equally valuable as a professional resource for consultants, researchers, and tourist organizations, this insightful book tracks the unique circumstances that sparked the growth of China's tourism and hotel industry from a political, diplomatic activity to a burgeoning economic industry. The book includes background information on geography, culture, history, politics, and economics, and examines the evolution of tourism policies, inbound vs. outbound travel, hotel operations and trends, and the Chinese government's role in developing tourism.
China may be a latecomer to international tourism development, but visitors have made it one of the world's top 10 travel destinations every year since 1994. Since historic policy shifts in 1978 opened China's doors to the outside world, inbound tourism has played a significant role in building a national economy. And the increase in disposable income among China's citizens has helped create a sizable market for domestic and outbound tourism as well. Tourism and Hotel Development in China looks at the major factors and characteristics of each type of tourism, international hotel development trends and their influence on China's hotel industry, related human resources issues, travel services, the development of hotel chains in China, compensation and incentive management, and the future of China's tourism and hotel industry.
Topics examined in Tourism and Hotel Development in China include:
travel and tourism, pre-and post-1949
the Asia market
the intercontinental market
international tourism in different regions of China
popular urban tourist destinations in China
approved outbound destinations
outbound travel to Hong Kong
challenges facing travel services
local protectionism
travel agencies
hotel franchising
foreign vs. local hotel chains
outsourcing
and much more! Tourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success follows the journey of China's tourism industry from a public relations vehicle, restricted by the economy and controlled by the government, to an important source of commerce for a country whose national economy was nearly on the verge of collapse.
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Published in 2005? .......2005-07-25
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Displacing Desire: Travel And Popular Culture in China
Beth E. Notar Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824829808 |
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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 carrytrek halfway across the globe to "get off the beaten track," yet converge here to drink coffee, eat banana pancakes, and share music from home. Coastal Chinese who are prospering in the phenomenal economic growth of China's reform era, travel thousands of miles to sing songs and dress up as their favorite characters from a revolutionary-era movie musical. Overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia as well as a new generation of mainland youth follow in the footsteps of heroes and villains from Hong Kong martial arts novels, seeking an experience of a Buddhist "wild, wild, West" at a martial arts theme park dubbed "Hollywood East," or "Daliwood."Inspired by representations in popular culture that engender fantasies of the exotic, these tourists, Western and Chinese, journey to Dali, Yunnan, in search of an imagined place where they can indulge their craving for authenticity, display their status in the present, and act out their nostalgia for the past. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, Beth Notar explores struggles over place as people in Dali attempt to represent their historical identity and define their future. While officials and investors have increasingly sought to shape Dali to mirror its image in popular culture, and most townspeople have welcomed reform-era construction as bringing them closer to market modernity, older villagers, who face displacement from the land, have attempted to subvert official rationale for development through rumor and ghost stories.
Displacing Desire takes representation into the realm of practice to consider the ways in which those who are represented must contend with their image in popular culture and the material after-effects of representations even decades after their original production. It contributes to an exploration of travel as performance of nostalgia, fantasy, and status. More specifically it contributes to an understanding of the growth of consumer culture in China, examining what China's modernization process and market economy mean for different social actors in their struggles over power and place.
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Yunnan Through Foreign Students' Eyes: Volume 1, Tourism and Development in Yunnan
Manufacturer: Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 7805869634 |
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Tourism and Development in Yunnan is the first volume of the Yunnan Through Foreign Students' Eyes series which examines the unique cultural and physical landscape of Yunnan Province, China. This volume contains essays that explore the promises and perils that accompany Yunnan's tourism development, including impacts on local peoples and the environments which they inhabit. Others discuss development issues, such as China's reproductive policy, deaf education in Yunnan, rural microlending projects, agricultual change, and music education as a means of inculcating social norms and values. Geographically and ethnographically, these papers encompass a cross-section of Yunnan's many ecological zones and minority peoples.
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The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice
Blade Kotelly Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0321154924 |
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Achieving robust function with a human spin.......2003-06-01
Though they are sometimes subtle, the issues and solutions outlined here are broadly explained, and this fosters an appreciation of each and leaves readers better equipped to anticipate where the next one may lie.
Kotelly is not delivering a text book which seeks to catalog countless dos and don'ts of design. Rather, he takes what I feel is the proper tack of showing by example how problems arise and listing not one, but a variety of choices a designer could make to avoid the problem. The result is not a series of commandments, but a richly illustrated outline of a well-developed philosophy of design and depiction. The work, I feel, helps the reader to appreciate the impulses that shaped Kotelly's leading work in the field, and to promote in him/her a sense of how they can develop their own affinity for designing systems that work efficiently and are received warmly.
If you truly think that a book will help you break into this field or expand your mastery within it, this is an excellent choice. It will inform you and prompt you to think well beyond the content it directly offers. It is perfect to get you thinking more passionately and expansively of what is possible in voice user interface design.
Very lucid; don't be scared off by the subject.......2003-02-24
Now, we have commercially available real time, speaker independent products. Some of the largest companies, like United Airlines and ATT, have deployed these, to try and reduce call centre costs, and to improve the user's experience when dialling into such a place. Are you considering installing such software? Of course, you can talk to the vendors. But where can you get objective advice? One possibility is to ask researchers in the field. But they can easily and inadvertantly drown you in jargon, especially if you do not have a technical background. This book attempts to fill that need. You do not need a degree in computer science or maths to understand it.
The book does not explain how speech recognition works. Rather the emphasis is at a higher level: Using it in your workplace. The author gives many lucid examples of this. Basically, he outlines a commonsensical appproach that can be understood by anybody. He explains how not to overburden the user with long utterances full of information, but to take advantage of the context of the conversation to omit unnecessary details. He emphasises thorough testing, with a disciplined scaling up to a real life deployment in a call centre. Something that may well have been omitted in other deployments, leading to users gnashing their teeth in frustration at an obtuse dialog, or at busy phone lines.
He also discusses why companies should regard this as part of their corporate branding, and how to choose an appropriate "noble" voice as part of that branding. I think the "noble" sounds rather pompous, actually. But that's not his fault! It is a standard phrase in this field, and you too might get used to it.
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Reorganizing Data And Voice Networks
Thomas R. Koehler Manufacturer: Artech House Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1596930403 |
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With the emergence of new technologies like Voice over IP and Wireless LANs, the decentralization of enterprises, and the increased mobility of employees in the work force, separate data and voice networks are no longer adequate for today's organizations. The needs of companies, both large and small, require a newly structured, consolidated corporate network. Focusing on infrastructure, this unique resource provides professionals with practical guidance on reorganizing enterprise networks for maximum efficiency in today's marketplace. The book offers detailed information on key technologies and services such as VPNs (virtual private networks), VoIP (voice over IP), MPLS (multi protocol label switching), and mobile data services.This authoritative volume discusses the role of the CIO and the IT department within the organization and offers a thorough understanding of the costs and security issues related to enterprise network development. Helping companies strike an optimum balance with their "make or buy" decisions, professionals learn how to determine which main network components to develop in-house and which components to outsource. Moreover, the book provides advice on finding the right partners for outsourcing based on an organization's specific needs.
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Next Generation Phone Systems: How to Choose a Voice and Data Communications System for E-Business
David Krupinski , and Brian McConnell Manufacturer: CMP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1578200385 |
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The way we communicate is changing. In the past few years we've seen the introduction of a variety of new mediums for both business and personal communications. Email, the Web, fax, Internet chat, videoconferencing and whiteboarding are just a few example
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2006 - African Infrastructure, Fixed Voice and Data Markets
Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000G6ANNW Release Date: 2006-03-20 |
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3G SMARTPHONE SHIPPING TO NTT DOCOMO IN JAPAN. : An article from: Worldwide Telecom
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000F3UHDM Release Date: 2006-03-21 |
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This digital document is an article from Worldwide Telecom, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 521 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Agency finds answers in wireless: technology adds speed and efficiency to business processes.(Agency Tech Case Study)(Gateway Insurance Agency): An article ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Mark E. Ruquet Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000842NIU Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 13, 2004. The length of the article is 600 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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AirDefense launches Bluetooth monitoring solution.(AirDefense BlueWatch ): An article from: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
Manufacturer: Millin Publishing, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082KBYA Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 551 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Application layer awareness is key: adding voice to converged infrastructure brings several challenges.(Special Focus: Voice Networks): An article from: Communications News
Kirk Vaughan Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000EQ4D12 Release Date: 2006-02-24 |
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This digital document is an article from Communications News, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 917 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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ARBINET LAUNCHES PEERINGSOLUTIONS FOR US DOMESTIC MARKET.: An article from: Tele-Service News
Gale Reference Team Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000OT7LJ0 Release Date: 2007-06-18 |
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This digital document is an article from Tele-Service News, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 663 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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AT&T TO PROVIDE VOICE, DATA AND MPLS SERVICES.: An article from: RBOC Update
Gale Reference Team Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000MTDPZ6 Release Date: 2007-01-19 |
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This digital document is an article from RBOC Update, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 493 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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