Tim Oakes
University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.

Tim Oakes is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a visiting research scholar at the Institiute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney. He is the author of,

Tourism and Modernity in China

(Routledge, 1998), and has written extensively on the cultural geography of Chinese regional development. He is currently co-editing

Travels in Paradox

(with Claudio Minca) and

Translocal China

(with Louisa Schein) while preparing a new book on Chinese regionalism and cultural strategies of economic development, titled

Trading in Places

. His current research, supported by the US National Science Foundation, examines the cultural and ethnic politics of heritage tourism in China.