Document Type

Journal article

Source Publication

Cultural Studies Review

Publication Date

9-2006

Volume

12

Issue

2

First Page

107

Last Page

128

Publisher

UTS ePRESS

Abstract

This article is based on an on-going research project that examines how tourism is constructed in Hong Kong by using the specific tourist spot, Lei Yue Mun, as a case study. The article's aim is to demonstrate how the local agents of a small, squatter-based community with a distinctive history and cultural traditions may, without making any claim to indigenousness or aboriginality, manage a local economy and engage in cultural negotiation at the metropolitan, national and global levels. Their economic practices lead the authors to enquire whether preservationism or invoking historical traditions from the margins is the most significant form or strategy of cultural tourism.

DOI

10.5130/csr.v12i2.2339

Print ISSN

14468123

E-ISSN

18378692

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2006 UTSePress.

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Full-text Version

Publisher’s Version

Language

English

Recommended Citation

Chan, S.-H., & Ip, I.-C., & Leung, L. Y. M. (2006). Negotiating culture, economics and community politics: The practice of Lei Yue Mun tourism in postcolonial Hong Kong. Cultural Studies Review, 12(2), 107-128. doi: 10.5130/csr.v12i2.2339

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