Illustrations
Table
12.1 Historical relations between Indonesian governments and smallholder producers of various export commodities
Figures
1.1 Shanghai Expo, China National Pavilion
1.2 Angkor souvenirs, Cambodia
1.3 Local tourism businesses, Guilin, China
1.4 Traditional henna design, Srinagar, Kashmir
4.1 Map showing distribution of Buddhist sites in India
4.2 11th to 12th century model of the Bodh Gaya shrine from Myanmar
4.3 Amaravati sculpture now in the British Museum
7.1 Densification and loss of vegetation cover in central town precinct: disruption of traditional Lao settlement pattern
7.2 A new house in central Luang Prabang shows some respect for traditional building form but little for design, materials and set-back regulations
7.3 New multi-storey guesthouses on filled-in ponds cause disruption to drainage patterns and exacerbate flooding in the wetlands on Luang Prabang’s southern periphery
7.4 Mainstreet restaurant: the intensification of French chic in Luang Prabang
7.5 Staged dance in a Lijiang square: commodifying the intangible heritage of the Naxi ethnic minority
7.6 Grand entrance to the newly constructed tourist town adjacent to the World Heritage property at Lijiang
11.1 Map of Thailand showing Khmer-speaking provinces
11.2 Ethnic Khmer posed in front of an ancient Khmer sanctuary float at Phnom Khaw Saway Festival, Surin Province
11.3 Nam Pheung Muang Surin filming a kantreum music video at Prasaat Muang Tam
11.4 A spirit medium dressed as a female Khmer celestial deity, or apsara
12.1 The historic pattern of natural resource development in Borneo
12.2 Kantu’ Dayak hunting party
12.3 Kantu’ Dayak girl harvesting dry rice
12.4 Kantu’ Dayak woman harvesting dry rice
12.5 Kantu’ Dayak man shaping a canoe paddle
12.6 Kantu’ Dayak carving a hilt for a brush-sword
13.1 Archaeological site at the Thang Long Citadel in Hanoi
13.2 French-era building within the Thang Long Citadel, used as the Headquarters of the North Vietnamese Army during the war against the USA and its allies
13.3 Socialist realist sculpture outside the Mausoleum of Mao Tse Tung in Beijing
13.4 ‘Shrine’ to Kaysone Phomvihane in the Central Committee meeting room at Kaysone’s cave site in Vieng Xay
14.1 Triangular relations between heritage, place identity and tourism
14.2 The spacious plaza in front of the newly built Yan’an Museum of Revolution. In a typical scene of danwei lüyou, a tour group organised by a work unit from Henan takes group pictures in front of a huge Mao statue
14.3 Visitors to the Yan’an Museum of Revolution show great interest in viewing weapons
14.4 A typical exterior view of yaodong. Here a group of tourists takes pictures in front of a yaodong in which Mao Zedong used to live
14.5 A typical interior display in yaodong. A tourist leans forward from the neighboring dugout to take pictures with his mobile phone
14.6 Taking pictures in the Eighth Route Army uniform is a popular practice observed at many sites of Red Tourism
14.7 A tourist poses to mimic Mao Zedong delivering a speech at the Seventh National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
14.8 Tourists enthusiastically watch a live-ammunition performance of the simulation theatre ‘Revisiting the Battle of Defending Yan’an’
15.1 Tak Baad, the morning alms-giving ritual
15.2 Posters to sensitise tourists to cultural issues concerning the alms-giving ritual
15.3 Hotel owners buy old cars to pick up tourists at the airport
15.4 Some families cannot afford repairing their traditional houses with old materials
16.1 Tour boats in Ha Long Bay
16.2 Morning ritual of tak baad, the giving of alms
16.3 Novice monks walking along main street Luang Prabang in World Heritage core that has seen many shop houses converted for tourism purposes such as cafés, souvenir sales and accommodation
17.1 St Mark’s Square Venice: the quality of this renowned piazza derives from the total composition, including the spatial quality, rather than individual buildings
17.2 Street in Jelan Besar, Singapore
17.3 Tha Tien shophouse, Bangkok
17.4 Street in George Town, Penang
19.1 Worshipers at the Kuandu Temple to the goddess Mazu, Taiwan
19.2 Former temple, converted to domestic accommodation in the mid-twentieth century, on Gulangyu Island, Xiamen (Amoy)
19.3 Spirit shrine, Chana Songkhram, Bangkok
19.4 A local deity temple in Taipei
22.1 Overview, Ajanta Caves
22.2 Sampling pigments of murals at Ajanta cave 2 under the Indo-Japanese Project for Conservation of the Mural Paintings at Ajanta Caves
22.3 Mural depicting place scenes from the Visvantara Jataka, Ajanta cave 17