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Introduction: Rethinking Tourism in Asia, Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang Part One: Challenging Conventions 1. 'A long and still-unfinished story': constructing and defining Asian regionalisms, C. Michael Hall 2. Knowledge Order in Asia, Peggy Teo 3. Destination Asia: rethinking material culture, Tim Winter 4. Disorganized Tourism Space: Chinese tourists in an age of Asian tourism, Chan Yuk Wah Part Two: Emerging Markets, (Re)scripting Places 5. Singapore's Postcolonial Landscape: boutique hotels as agents, Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang 6. The Rebirth of the Hospital: heterotopia and medical tourism in Asia. Audrey Bochaton and Bertrand LeFebvre 7. Affective Sites: Hur Jin-Ho's cinema and film-induced tourism in Korea. Youngmin Choe 8. Affinity Tourism: a case study of Indian tourists in Bali K. Thirumaran 9. Ayurvedic Tourism in Kerala: local identities and global markets, Denise Spitzer Part Three: National Imaginings and Tourism Development 10. Between encouragement and control: tourism, modernity and discipline in China, Pal Nyiri 11. Tourism as Glitter: re-examining domestic tourism in Indonesia, Maribeth Erb 12. Openings and Limits: domestic tourism in Japan, Nelson Graburn 13. Disruptions of a dialectic and a stereotypical response: the case of the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, tourism industry, Jamie Gillen 14. The Internal Expansion of China: tourism and the production of distance, Jenny Chio Part Four: Revis(it)ing Heritage: dissonance or harmony? 15. From the centre to the margin: tourism and conflict in Kashmir, Shalini Panjabi 16. Staging the Nation, Exploring the Margins: domestic tourism and its political implications in northern Thailand, Olivier Evrard and Prasit Leepreecha 17. Cultural Preservation, Tourism, and 'Donkey Travel' on China's Frontier, Robert Shepherd 18. Gastronomy and Tourism: a case study of gourmet country-style cuisine in Hong Kong, Sidney C. H. Cheung Part Five: Tourism and New Social Networks 19. 'My Mother's Best Friend's Sister-in-law is Coming with Us': domestic and international travels with a group of Lao tourists, Charles Carroll 20. 'Donkey Friends' in China: the internet, civil society and the emergence of the Chinese backpacking community, Francis Khek Gee Lim 21. Still Vision and Mobile Youth: tourist photos, travel narratives and Taiwanese modernity, Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh 22. Conclusion: Recasting tourism theory, towards an Asian future, Tim Winter

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