Komercjalizacja obcości w Państwie Środka, czyli socjologiczne spojrzenie na ruch turystyczny w Chinach
Commercialization of foreignness in the Middle Kingdom, the sociological perspective of tourist traffic in China

Summary/Abstract: Article is devoted to the processes taking place in China’s social development associated with tourism in this country — both foreign tourism and domestic tourism. Are shown the forms of tourist activity, that are characteristic for domestic tourists for visitors from the West, as well as the problem of spatial, temporal, and class restrictions on tourism. The rest of the article, as an example of China, discussed the concepts and processes characteristic of postmodern tourism, among other ceremonial and sacralization in tourism, the concept of pseudo events, transformation of the tourist attractions and commercialization of alienation — a phenomenon essential both for foreigners, for whom China is a country very different culturally and for the Chinese people, for whom the exotic elements of their country are ethnic minorities.

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