Americans Fight Tourist Kitsch in China
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.09.09 | 11:00 AM ET
In China, “‘ancient’ villages are being redeveloped in a kitschy, gift-shop-heavy way,” James Fallows writes in the Atlantic. Americans Brian and Jeanee Linden are fighting the trend. They’ve “worked with party officials to secure something rarely accorded foreigners: the right to use a ‘Class A’ historical relic and restore it—its tiling, wooden arches and fretwork, painted murals.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Kashgar 09.19.09 | 4:56 AM ET
Yes it is true that when i visited Xi’an and other places back in 2007, most of the tourist sites are surrounded with souvenir shop. In short run it maybe good but tourist won’t come to see tourist shop, so government should do something.