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Going Modern: The tourist experience at the seaside and hill resorts in late Qing and Republican China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2017

ANTÓNIO EDUARDO HAWTHORNE BARRENTO*
Affiliation:
University of Lisbon, Portugal Email: abarrento@campus.ul.pt

Abstract

A network of seaside and hill resorts created by foreigners gradually took shape in China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Such places were both a touristic novelty in China and the focal point of a type of tourist experience that was modern in a variety of ways. This article examines tourist accounts, tourist guidance material, and other sources, in an attempt to understand the major habits, norms, perceptions, and meanings of tourism to the seaside and hill resorts as a new type of tourism in China, from its inception to the downfall of the Nationalist government in 1949. For this purpose, it explores three aspects that were central to resort tourism: its strong association with an idea of refuge, its identification as an ideal experience, and its important physical component. While the article aims at an overall analysis of this new element of tourist culture in China, it also seeks to locate it within the wider contexts of tourist culture and of the broad motivations and anxieties of this period.

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217 Harris, ‘The Rites of Summer’, p. 20.

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223 Liangyou, 107 (15 July 1935), pp. 4–5.

224 See China Industrial Handbooks: Kiangsu, Shanghai: Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Industry, 1933, pp. 486, 489.

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232 In America, by 1929 wearing stockings had, as a result of tanning, become optional: Segrave, Suntanning in 20th Century America, p. 34.

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236 Beidaihe haibin daoyou, p. 4.

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238 The Lian Hua wool factory and the San Lun trademark, for instance, advertised ‘fashionable’ foreign and Chinese bathing costumes: Liangyou, 68 (30 August 1932), p. 39.

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