Negotiating Culture, Economics and Community Politics: The Practice of Lei Yue Mun Tourism in Postcolonial Hong Kong

Shun-Hing Chan; Iam-Chong Ip; Lisa Y.M. Leung

doi:10.5130/csr.v12i2.2339

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v12i2.2339

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Cultural research, cultural studies, research, practice, tourism, community politics, Hong Kong, cultural tourism, tradition

Shun-Hing Chan

Lingnan University

Iam-Chong Ip

Lingnan University

Lisa Y.M. Leung

Lingnan University

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.

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Vol 12 No 2 (2006): Engagements

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Cultural Research (Peer Reviewed)

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Author Biographies

Shun-Hing Chan, Lingnan University

SHUN-HING CHAN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She received her PhD in modern Chinese literature from Peking University. Her research areas include gender and everyday life, gender and narratives, Modern Chinese literary studies, Hong Kong studies and culture and tourism.

Iam-Chong Ip, Lingnan University

IAM-CHONG IP is currently teaching in the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is a PhD student in the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. He has published works relating to colonialism, housing and citizenship. His research focuses on urban cultures in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Lisa Y.M. Leung, Lingnan University

LISA Y.M. LEUNG is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. She has published extensively on the issues around cultural globalization raised by the intensified flow of media and cultural products across Asia. In recent years, she has extended her research into tourism and cultural studies.

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Shun-Hing Chan, Lingnan University

Iam-Chong Ip, Lingnan University

Lisa Y.M. Leung, Lingnan University