I am a cultural geographer
of China,
working on issues related to regional cultural development, culture industries,
tourism, heritage, regional and place-based identities.
My work focuses on the ways culture is used
as a resource for development and governance objectives, identity politics, and
tourism. Recent and continuing projects
include the following:
·
Tunpu heritage
tourism in Guizhou – a collaborative
project, with Professor Wu Xiaoping of Guizhou
Nationalities University,
on the development of heritage tourism among Tunpu villagers in central Guizhou. This research was supported by the National
Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the
University of Colorado College of Arts & Sciences.
Publications to
date:
·
Oakes,
T. In Press 2010. “Resourcing culture: Is a prosaic ‘third
space’ possible in rural China?”
Environment and Planning D; Society and
Space.
·
Oakes,
T. In Press 2009. “祖先的炼金术” – 屯堡村庄中搬演国家的溯源仪式 [Alchemy of
the ancestors: ritual performance of national ancestry in tunpu villages]. 西南民族大学学报 [Journal of Southwest
Nationalities University].
·
Oakes,
T. and X. Wu. 2009. 屯堡文化的价值 – 与宋茨林先生商酌[The value of tunpu culture. A
response to Song Cilin]. 安顺师转学报[Journal of Anshun
Teachers College] 1 (January).
·
Oakes,
T. and X. Wu. 2007. 屯堡重塑：贵州的文化旅游与社会变迁 [Reinventing Tunpu: Cultural
Tourism and Social Change in Guizhou] (Guiyang: Guizhou Minzu Chubanshe).
·
Oakes,
T. 2006. Cultural strategies of
development: implications for village governance in China. Pacific Review 19(1): 13-37 Reprinted
in L.C. Li (ed.), State in the Making (London and New
York: Routledge, 2008), pp.
14-35. Translated as 经济发展的文化战略及其对农村治理的影响 and reprinted in L. Guang et al. (eds.), 乡村中国：改革中的农村, 农民和农业 [The State of Rural China: Peasants, Agriculture,
and Rural Society in the Reform Era] (Hong Kong:
Time Tide Publishing, 2006), pp. 285-308. Translation reprinted in吴毅
[Wu Yi] (ed.), 乡村中国评论 [Rural China Review] 2 (Jinan: Shandong Renmin Chubanshe, 2007), pp.
224-239.
·
Oakes,
T. 2005. The story of secretary Wang – hero, savior, liar,
scoundrel. The University of California
International and Area Studies (UCIAS) Global Field Notes, No. 5, http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucias/gfn/5.
Reprinted in Narratives of the
Chinese Economic Reform: Individual Pathways from Plan to Market, ed. D. Solinger (Lewiston,
NY: Mellen,
2005), 49-68.
·
Oakes,
T. 2005. Land of living fossils:
excavating cultural prestige in China’s
periphery. In Locating China:
Space, Place, and Popular Culture, ed. J. Wang (London
and New York:
Routledge), 31-51.
·
The frontier as
a spatial imaginary in China
– looking at the myth of the frontier as a cultural resource for regional
development and tourism in China
Publications to
date:
·
Oakes,
T. 2009. Faking Heaven: it’s all done with mirrors – Patty
Chang’s Shangri-la and the
Utopian Will to Order in China.
In China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, eds. K. Merkel-Hess, K. Pomeranz, and J. Wasserstrom
(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), 251-259.
·
Oakes,
T. 2008. Faking Heaven: The Utopian Will to Order in China. In The China
Beat (http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2008/09/faking-heaven-utopian-will-to-order-in.html)
·
Oakes,
T. 2007. Welcome to paradise! A Sino-American joint venture project,” in
T. Weston and L. Jenson (eds.), China's
Transformations: The Stories Beyond the Headlines (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 240-264.
·
Faiths on
Display: tourism and religion in China
– a volume co-edited with Donald Sutton of Carnegie Mellon
University
·
Trading in
Places – a project on Chinese cultural and economic regionalism
Publications to date:
·
Oakes,
T. 2009. Faking Heaven: it’s all done with mirrors – Patty
Chang’s Shangri-la and the
Utopian Will to Order in China.
In China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, eds. K. Merkel-Hess, K. Pomeranz, and J. Wasserstrom
(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), 251-259.
·
Oakes,
T. 2008. Faking Heaven: The Utopian Will to Order in China. In The China Beat (http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2008/09/faking-heaven-utopian-will-to-order-in.html)
·
Oakes,
T. 2000. China’s
provincial identities: reviving regionalism and reinventing "Chineseness." The Journal of Asian Studies
59:3, 667-92.
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