Selfie-taking as touristic looking

This paper reconceptualises the tourist gaze as facilitated by smart phones and social media, with a focus on selfies. It presents selfie-taking as a new way of touristic looking in which tourists become the objects of the self-directed tourist gaze. The paper suggests that the practice of selfie-taking in tourism is constituted by othering, stylized performing and producing/consuming visual culture of the self. Through these processes, tourists are able to ascribe the characteristics they otherwise associate with tourist sights onto themselves. Rather than fetishizing the extraordinary at the tourist destination, tourists seek to capture the extraordinary within themselves. Traditional tourist sights and attractions take on different relative importance.     

民俗旅游的意识形态

民俗旅游是全球化背景下权力政治、资本与地方性文化之间共谋的结果，是一种后现代文化现象，服务于民族－－国家的现代化建设诉求。民俗旅游的兴盛，既是“本土现代性”的表现，也是文化政治之暴力的一种表述，民俗文化旅游继续着现代性话语对于民间、边缘文化的霸权性质。     

南方长城与"长城文化之旅"的开发

中国南方长城的存在已是不争的事实,苗疆边墙不论在修筑的时间还是在结构和功能上,都与北方长城没有什么两样,不同的是它经过我国湿润的人口密度较大的地区,从而使长城作为历史上中国特定地区不同民族文化之间的功能界线,这一特有的文化背景,在更小的区域内得到了清晰的体现。由于南方长城的存在,凤凰的文化景观形成了差异明显的三大区：民族文化分界区、民族文化分离区和民族文化联合区,它们各自具有鲜明的特色,都是凤凰旅游的重要引力源。本文在挖掘长城文化内涵,诠注凤凰三大文化景观区之间成因联系的基础上,提出以长城文化为旅游主题,以“中国南方长城之旅”为旅游形象,以南方长城和民族文化分合为景观整合的线索,打造中国长城文化旅游精品的思路和措施。     

Impacts of urban renewal on the place identity of local residents – a case study of Sunwenxilu traditional commercial street in Zhongshan City,Guangdong Province,China

ABSTRACT

This paper studies the impacts of urban renewal on local residents’ place identity by examining the changes in local residents’ place identity in Sunwenxilu, a traditional commercial street in downtown Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China, which carried out urban renewal relatively early in modern China. Applying Breakwell’s [(2015). Risk: Social psychological perspectives. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2nd Ed.). New York, NY: Elsevier] identity process model and using the renewal process as a starting point, data concerning local residents’ place identity in Sunwenxilu were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and literature analysis. The results reveal that local residents had established a strong place identity on Sunwenxilu before it changed to be a community of “incompetents” in the 1990s. In the late 1990s, Sunwenxilu was transformed into a cultural tourism pedestrian street. Right after the transformation, local residents regained their self-esteem with the improvement of the physical environment and intensification of cultural symbols, and re-established their place continuity by maintaining their collective memories. However, a failure to improve the local residents’ self-efficiency of place during the “superficial” renewal had resulted in vulnerability of the local residents’ place identity in terms of self-esteem, continuity and distinctiveness, thus causing another crisis of place identity. Obviously, the construction of place identity results from the interaction of all elements, so too much emphasis on only one element may trigger a new identity crisis.     

Expectations of Working Relationships in International Buyer–Seller Relationships: Development of a Relationship Continuum Scale

This study is an attempt to develop a scale to measure expectations of buyer–seller working relationships on a cross-cultural basis in the hospitality industry. The focus is on North American and Asian hotel salespeople. The scale development drew from previous research in guanxi relationships, purchasing, and selling strategies. While the results did not support a reliable unidimensional scale that could distinguish between transactional and collaborative working relationships, the methodology did create a framework for further scale development.     

中外合作办学中学生跨文化交际能力的培养

经济全球化趋势下,学校间的国际合作越来越普及。本文以无锡工艺职业技术学院中加合作项目为例,针对教学活动中外教与本院师生在互动过程中所产生的矛盾和问题进行探讨分析,旨在说明跨文化交际在外教教学中的重要性,并就如何正确面对文化冲突以及提高跨文化交际能力提出思路和方向。     

Career patterns of top management team members in five countries: an optimal matching analysis

This paper introduces optimal matching analysis (OMA) to the field of top management research. With this method, we develop six career patterns of top management team (TMT) members from five countries based on their international experience, organizational tenure and professional experience. The results provide strong support for the significance of these patterns, since each country (Denmark, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) shows one to four predominant career patterns of their managers and the occurrence of these patterns also differs significantly between the fields of activity within the TMT (chairperson, head of a division, primary activities and support activities).     

环境景观设计中的城市记忆

我国国民经济的持续增长和城市化进程的加快,带来了城市建设的高速发展.但随之而来也产生了一系列问题.地方文化以及地域特色的逐渐丧失便属其中之一.作为城市设计重要组成部分的环境景观设计也面临着同样的问题.城市记忆的概念正是在这一特定的时期提出来的.在我国有关城市记忆方面的讨论和实践已经展开.城市记忆有利于改变目前的现状,有利于城市精神的塑造,有利于创造各具特色的城市风貌,有利于联系城市的过去与未来.     

企业强文化的资本性研究

本文围绕着企业强文化与企业绩效之间的关系,分析企业强文化的资本性与负债性。首先,在界定企业强文化的内涵后,提出强文化通过筛选与组织内部社会化两种途径形成;其次,在团队生产模型的基础上,引入信念一致性与规范的激励功能,分析了企业强文化的资本性;最后,我们提出企业强文化体现资本性的充要条件在于企业强文化激励、整合与协调组织成员的行为并且帮助组织适应外部环境,因此,在分析企业强文化的资本性与负债性时要考虑外部环境的权变作用。     

论中国式管理的策略原则

中国式管理问题,是近年来学术界研究的热点,从中华民族五千年历史文化的挖掘中产生的种种管理创新理论层出不穷,但对于作为中国式管理重要组成部分的管理策略艺术问题,尚未能有深入地研究。本文在深入研究的基础上,第一次把中国式管理的策略艺术归纳为有道之识、无为之见、人本之思、和合之计、变易之术、中庸之道、人文化成和统筹兼顾等八个方面,系统地探讨了中国式管理艺术的基本原则问题。