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Asian Studies Seminar Series : The (Re)Construction of Western Conceptions of Outdoor Leisure in Post-Mao Urban China Other events...
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
Location Social Science Seminar Room North (G25)
Contact Hayley Musson <[email protected]>
Start Fri, 06 May 2016 13:00
End Fri, 06 May 2016 14:00
Submitted by Hayley Musson <[email protected]>
Last Updated Mon, 02 May 2016 14:39
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