Jia Xie

Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers

The Pursuit of Freedom and Its Risks

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates contemporary young Chinese backpackers' views on backpacking culture and backpackers. The author discovers that the backpackers begin their journey due to a desire to pursue freedom, but are driven home because of the risks of carrying out a freewheeling lifestyle within an individualised society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9781032040059
• ISBN-10: 103204005X
• Artikelnr.: 69898411

Autorenporträt

Jia Xie is a distinguished research fellow in the School of Tourism Management at South China Normal University. Her research covers backpacker culture, the sociology of tourism and geographies of media and communication.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. Conceptualisation 3. Methodology. 4. Pursuing freedom:
Backpackers in the eyes of their contemporaries. 5. Be a backpacker, be
independent. 6 Alternative seeker: Backpacking as a way of life. 7. A new
classification of the backpacker. 8. Understanding young Chinese
backpackers: The pursuit of freedom and its risks