Tim Oakes

TL;DR: In this paper, tourism and modernity are discussed in Guizhou and a place and process in the tourist political economy is discussed, where the tourist landscape is reclaimed from a "barren and profitless" place.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce Translocal China: An Introduction, the original Translocal Society and its Modern Fate: Historical and Post-Reform South China 3. Shanxi as Translocal Imaginary: Reforming the Local 4. Openness, change and Translocality: New Migrants' Identification with Hainan 5. How Local are Local Enterprises?: Privatization and TransLocality of Small Firms in Zhejiang and Jiangsu 6. Urban Transformation and Professionalization: Translocability and Rationalities of Enterprise in Post-Mao China 7.

TL;DR: The Diamond Age as mentioned in this paper is a post-nation-state world of the future, where countless fragmentations of cultural identity differentiate humanity into spatially discrete tribal zones, and identity has become entirely spatialized, rendering its historical basis into a decontextualized montage of nostalgia.

TL;DR: The authors examines the intersections between this literary tradition of place representation and academic geography, examining the work of Goethe and Hardy, and the fiction of Raymond Williams, and argues that place has been a particularly significant terrain for representing the experience of modernity.

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between the political economy of tourism and ethnic cultural revival in southwest China and suggested that cultural revival is a process of "place creation" whereby identities may be consciously localized as a strategy for engaging structures of political economy which link local actors with broader geographical frameworks and more distant sources of power.