As Chinese tourists, migrant workers, and students are becoming increasingly mobile, both inside China and abroad, the authoritarian state is wedged between the benefits and dangers posed by mobility. Communist China delicately balances its own conflicting impulses to support and discourage such mobilization by apparently loosening its restrictions on internal and international migration while still tightly regulating the promotion of domestic leisure industry with what Nyíri (Vrije Univ., Amsterdam) sees as a type of "indoctritainment." Concurrent with its integration into the global economic order is the portrayal of a new, optimistic, and modernized China, yet one in which the state has reshaped the culture of tourism, carefully manicured and interpreted through its public spaces and media infrastructure.
