ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Lijiang’s immersion in the global system of tourism and the practices of heritage production and representation. It aims to reveal the negotiations and struggles between processes of globalization reified through transnationalistic forces, nationalism through Beijing-based polices and Han-centered values, and local practices in tourism development and heritage preservation. In so doing, we place Lijiang in a global-national-local nexus to analyze how dominant and subaltern forces converge in Lijiang’s tourism development.
