1979 Huang Shan: Selling Scenery to the Bourgeoisie : An Oral History Account of Chinese Tourism, 1949-1979 by Sang Ye. Edited and translated by Geremie R. Barmé

Abstract

This is an edited chapter from the book by Sang Ye and Geremie R. Barmé, The Rings of Beijing: Inside China's Olympic Aura (forthcoming 2010). The full chapter contains material on the pre-1949 Chinese tourist industry as well as other remarks on the surveillance of foreign tourists in the 1960s and the effects on the industry of the events of 1989. This material is based on an oral history interview by Sang Ye, edited and translated by Geremie R. Barmé, and undertaken as part of an Australian Research Council-funded Federation Fellowship project on 'The Spectacle of Beijing'. The translator would like to acknowledge Linda Jaivin's extensive work in helping revise this text. Show more