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The very first review of my book, A Landscape of Travel, was recently published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage! The review author's comments and feedback are insightful and productive in helping me think more expansively about the reach and scope of my research on tourism in ethnic minority, rural China, and how my work might speak to larger issues in tourism development and cultural heritage management in urban contexts as well. I'm especially excited that the author finds my book relevant across and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Here's an excerpt from the review: "Jenny Chio’s insights and methodological innovations...shake all our analytical certainties and reveal the necessity for an all encompassing integrated evaluation (surpassing the bipolar analysis of leisure-labour, migrant-tourism). This sounds as an invitation to all researchers on tourism, independently of their disciplinary background (anthropology, ethnography, geography, history, economics, architecture, cultural studies, heritage conservation, sociology, politics, etc.) to integrate the two major characteristics of tourism – that she identifies as visuality and mobility – and to investigate on their effects not only in relation to tourists but also with regard to the hosting societies." Download it here: 
 2015 Chinese Environmental Film Festival
Furman University February 26-28, 2015 Full Screening Program For three days at the end of February, I'll be in Greenville, South Carolina, attending the Chinese Environmental Film Festival organized by Professor Tami Blumenfield and the entire Asian Studies department at Furman University. This is going to be a fantastic event and a unique chance to see, and discuss, a range of films by Chinese and US-based filmmaker-scholars that all address questions of environmental change and its impact on society. My film, 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness, will screen on Friday, February 27, at 7 p.m., followed by commentary and discussion with me, Professor Emily Yeh (Geography, U Colorado Boulder) and Professor Kate Kaup (Political Science, Furman University). I'll also be discussing the Chinese independent documentary, Beijing Besieged by Waste, earlier that day alongside Ralph Litzinger (Anthropology, Duke University). This is a really exciting group of films and scholars that will gather in Greenville for the festival, and I'm so pleased to be a part of this important conversation about the relationships between Chinese society and environmental change. All events are free and open to the public. In conjunction with Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney's course on Race and Ethnicity in East Asia (Winter 2015) and co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, I'll be screening my film on campus on Friday, February 20, 2015, from 10-12:30. This public screening will be followed by a conversation between Professor Mullaney and me, and then open discussion with students and scholars, all which I am really looking forward to. It's been great to receive feedback and insights on my research from scholars across the disciplines, because it helps me to better understand and conceptualize my findings. And, of course, these discussions are very important ways for all of us to deepen our understandings of tourism and its consequences in the contemporary world. Here are some details on the event (click on the link for more information and to RSVP): 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness Stanford screening Friday, 2/20/2015, 10-12:30 Lane History Corner, Building 200, Room 034 This is an amazing way to start to my year, and I'm hoping 2015 will be filled with opportunities to share my film and develop new ideas and projects!  |
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