Category Archives: Language & tourism

Finding Switzerland in Japan Finding Switzerland in Japan

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

As a non-speaker and non-reader of Japanese I went to Japan fully expecting to be confused. However, the only confusing moment I experienced had nothing to do with anything Japanese: when I stepped off the train at Hakone Station, I … Continue reading →

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game-of-love-chinese-style-247x300 旅游中的东方主义

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇

Chinese version of my recent blog post about orientalism and tourism 东方主义，这种西方文化中对东方文化及人文的旧式及带有偏见的理解，可谓是由来已久、根深蒂固。一日偶读澳大利亚旅游杂志《出发和到达》中一篇题为“爱情游戏，中国风”的文章，我对东方主义在当今世界的影响力，尤其是在旅游文本中的呈现，感触尤为深刻。 乍看标题“爱情游戏，中国风”，觉得有趣而有些费解：什么样的“爱情游戏”可以称为“中国风”呢？接下来的副标题解释道：“远离现代社会的纷扰，中国纳西族在罕见的母系社会中独享亘古不变的清静”。文中描绘的中国西南边陲的云南白沙古镇是纳西族的故乡之一。而作者描绘的方式却使得白沙镇成为代表整个中国的一个影像：亘古不变，陷入一个远离现代文明的永恒世界。

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lijiang women More on orientalism and tourism

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Yang Hongyan

Language-on-the-Move’s recent blog post Orientalism and Tourism engages with the way ethnic minority people in China are represented in the West (and also by the Han majority in China). Not only do I have an academic interest in such representations but … Continue reading →

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game of love chinese style Orientalism and tourism

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇

Nowhere is the persistence of Orientalist ways of viewing the non-Western Other so obvious than in tourism brochures, as I was reminded when reading an article titled “Game of Love, Chinese Style” in the most recent issue of the Australian … Continue reading →

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croc warning_cairns Croc warning

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Ingrid Piller

I took a picture of this sign during a family holiday in Cairns. My then-six-year-old daughter noticed the German “Achtung” and so asked why it didn’t say “Warning” in her third language, Persian. Her father, the designated Persian-speaker in our … Continue reading →

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