Constructionism and culture in research: Understandings of the fourth Buddhist Festival, Wutaishan, China

dc.contributor.authorRyan, Chris
dc.contributor.authorGu, Huimin
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T03:38:00Z
dc.date.available2024-10-24T03:38:00Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionTourism Management 31 (2010) 167–178vi
dc.description.abstractThis paper offers an interpretation of competing legitimacies at the 2007 4th Annual Wutaishan Buddhist Festival in Taihua, Shanxi Province. It suggests how spectacle, entertainment and performance spaces are condoned arenas of challenge and usage by mainstream and peripheral groups. The paper also discusses the methods employed in the framing and nature of interpretation, and possesses its own tension as the different cultural perspectives and voices are heeded. It concludes that the festival exists as a multilayered event involving economics, politics, faith, entertainment and prestige – each of which creates its own set of interpretations contextualised in the evolving state of Chinese tourism. The paper is partially a response to the work of Hollinshead, Phillimore & Goodson and O’Dell that claim a need for a more reflexive voice in the tourism literature as a means of understanding the tourist experience. Its premises are based on thinking derived from multiple sources including symbolic interaction and Buddhist thought.vi
dc.identifier.urihttps://thuvienso.hoasen.edu.vn/handle/123456789/15856
dc.language.isoenvi
dc.publisherElserviervi
dc.subjectFestivals, China,Buddhism, Constructionism, Culture, Reflexivityvi
dc.titleConstructionism and culture in research: Understandings of the fourth Buddhist Festival, Wutaishan, Chinavi
dc.typeArticlevi

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