Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regul…
Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regul…
This book examines the kinds of leisure actitivites that urban Chinese engage in and the ways they talk about leisure, while at the same time analysing what the current party propaganda says about lesiure and the role of the local branches of the party state in the facilitation …
"A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same name"- "An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single…
"A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same name"-- "An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a singl…
"A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same name"-- "An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a singl…
"A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same name"-- "An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a singl…