SEMINAR: Asian Studies Seminar Series
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Asian Studies Seminar Series : The (Re)Construction of Western Conceptions of Outdoor Leisure in Post-Mao Urban China |
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Drawing on three months of fieldwork in the cities of Guangzhou, Chengdu and Xuchang, this presentation explores a Chinese version of outdoor leisure called huwai xiuxian. Outdoor leisure has been booming over the last three decades, not only as a new form of holiday making among the urban middle-class, but also as a viable family enterprise among millions of outdoor sites rural dwellers in China. This presentation attempts to illuminate the socio-cultural and political implications of outdoor leisure, with reference to the state agenda of outdoor sites preservation and rural development, as well as the politics of consumption in post-Mao China.
In this presentation I also attempt to capture the emergence of a new politico-culture regime which engenders a new hedonistic subjectivity of consumption, replacing the old Maoist subjectivity of socialist production and asceticism. Based on a series of ethnographic and historical analyses, it argues that the social boundary making of urban-rural default-line, epitomised in outdoor leisure, is a crucial vehicle of identity formation, cultural hierarchies, and power relations in changing fields of power and meanings in Chinese society today.
Speaker(s) |
Mr He Gong
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Location |
Social Science Seminar Room North (G25)
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Contact |
Hayley Musson
<[email protected]>
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Start |
Fri, 06 May 2016 13:00
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End |
Fri, 06 May 2016 14:00
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Submitted by |
Hayley Musson <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Mon, 02 May 2016 14:39
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