...Kathryn Besio Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore . By Cang-Seng Ooi . Copenhagen : Copenhagen Business School Press , 2002 . 277 pp. $31.00, €32.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003...

... and economic context of his field site, his focus is not on development per se, but rather on how individual lives are lived in this socially diffuse and financially unstable borderland. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism...

...Travis Klingberg Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition . By Åshild Kolås . New York : Routledge , 2008 . xv , 129 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In 2002, local officials in Yunnan Province succeeded in changing...

...Janet Hoskins Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia . By Kathleen Adams . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2006 . xi , 286 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Susan Russell Tourism, Heritage, and National Culture in Java: Dilemmas of a Local Community . By Heidi Dahles . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2001 . xvii, 257 pp. £70.00/$125.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H E A S T...

...Christina Kreps Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism: Culture, Politics, and Development at Angkor . By Tim Winter . New York : Routledge , 2007 . xxii , 170 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Tim Winter's book...

...Laura C. Nelson Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance . Edited by Laurel Kendall . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . 258 pp. $46.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...

...—bypasses to some extent an examination of the situation regarding CCP governance, tourism to Tibet and ethno-religious identity intrinsic to Tibetan Buddhist activities, and the role of the Dalai Lama. Having been involved in eight tourism development projects in the TAR, the Greater Shangri-La Region...

...Pasuk Phongpaichit Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asia . By Thanh-Dam Truong . London : Zed Books , 1990 . viii, 227 pp. $17.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 477 Sex, Money...

...Robert E. Wood Tourism and Cultural Development in Asia and Oceania . Edited by Shinji Yamashita , Kadir H. Din , and J. S. Eades . Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia : Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia , 1997 . 244 pp. RM 30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Bodhisattva Kar The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity, and the Poverty of Representation . By John Hutnyk . London and New Jersey : ZED Books , 1996 . 246 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 752 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Kathleen Nadeau Where Asia Smiles: An Ethnography of Philippine Tourism . By Sally Ann Ness . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2003 . xvii , 300 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U...

...Sherry Fowler Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan . By Christine M. E. Guth . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2004 . xxi , 234 pp. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S J A P A N 747 about politics...

... and nonimperialistic way. Rethinking Scripture is an extremely helpful and insightful book, valuable not only for its specialized observations but also for its contribution to the understanding of a general theoretical problem. CARL W. ERNST Pomona College The Politics of Tourism in Asia. By LINDA K. RICHTER. Honolulu...

... in Bali's integration into the globalizing economy of pleasure. This paper examines the ways in which the monument is being articulated and “consumed” as a social and cultural marker for the island's tourism geography. The paper pays particular attention to the increasing diversity of Bali's visitors...

... will it happen? What will it look like? And what, exactly, will we recover? In what follows, I share three rhythms of crisis and recovery: national history, the tourism industry, and the parcel delivery industry. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Olympics Japan COVID-19...

... of Oriental and African Studies Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore. By C A N G - S E N G O O I . Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2002. 277 pp. $31.00, 32.00 (paper). In Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures, Cang-Seng Ooi...

... years to come. MICHAEL HERZFELD Harvard University Tourism, Heritage, and National Culture in Java: Dilemmas of a Local Community. By HEIDI DAHLES. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2001. xvii, 257 pp. £70.00/ $125.00 (cloth). Economic dependence on international tourism is, as many countries have experienced...

...Brij B. Khare 108 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Richter's major contribution is her analysis of the politics of tourism and its impact on international public policy. That countries are impelled to promote tourism to generate foreign exchange is easy enough to understand. But there are also...

...Kenneth Pomeranz BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 151 time reminds us that the tourists are decent people, "no worse than you or me." Despite his position as an officer of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Nuan Sarnsorn describes the transformation of the village-based Illuminated Boat Procession in Nakhon...