{"product_id":"a-guide-to-maos-china-gavin-healy-9781501785900","title":"A Guide to Mao's China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Guide to Mao's China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores how personnel within China's state tourism bureaucracy during the Mao era struggled to balance inbound foreign tourism as a form of political, historical, and cultural representation with demands for developing a revenue-generating service industry in a socialist economy.\u003c\/b\u003e The People's Republic crafted its national narrative through tightly managed tours, and foreign visitors were led through model communes and factories by officials, guides, and service workers still negotiating what tourism meant within a socialist state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on government archives, service worker manuals, firsthand tourist reports, and rare ephemera, Gavin Healy offers a human face to people-to-people diplomacy and shows how tourism workers shaped foreign impressions of Chinese socialism, while grappling with its meaning themselves. \u003ci\u003eA Guide to Mao's China\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh view of Mao-era China as more globally engaged and performative than often remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gavin Healy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501785907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501785900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Gavin Healy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443262730495,"sku":"9781501785900","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9d0edd07-a01a-4a6c-83e7-e9553622dc8b.jpg?v=1777204337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-guide-to-maos-china-gavin-healy-9781501785900","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}