Setting up Red Tourism in Modern China

Since 2005 sites of red tourism (红色旅游) have been supported and developed by the government of the People's Republic of China, intending to become a key element of the booming tourism industry while serving as sources of political identity, aiming at preserving a communist sense of identity in a "rapidly changing China" (Li Yiping et al. 2010). Despite the strong attention paid to these places by the central government and the Communist Party the development of these places did not follow a ..